For one so young, famously beautiful, Rhianna is truly doing herself, Chris Brown, and all people a great service by this candor and thoughtful processing. This will help many women who project their own majesty onto their love partners and then get lost in the gap between. Too many of us all ages all social classes and the more truth the better. It’s a healer.

If Rihanna loves those who beat her, so does she also hate those who treat her like a human being? Our society is so fucked up. The new generation of kids are going to ruin this country.

@TheCoz: Love does not work in binaries “I love X” does not mean “I hate Y.”

As a father of 3 daughters I cringe at the thought of someone hitting my girls. As someone who has gone through the pain of a separation and marital issues I have been tempted to resort to violence to seemingly solve the issues. But ended up punching walls and cabinets instead. Then went outside and punched retaining walls. This is the closest I have come to hitting a woman. The irony of the situation as I look at this as a whole is that it is almost culturally acceptable to be violent with women from the mundane butt slap on the dance floor, fashion labels like “wife beaters”, to the complete objectification of women as whole. Sexuality, Sensuality and Sex appeal are pervasive in tot-culture to pop-culture as a whole contributing and corrupting the objectification of females. Reality shows do not really help as well. The idea that female role models are maintained by Playboy bunnies, fame seeking nouveau riche daughters, mothers, wives of semi-famous, semi-rich people totally defaces the ability of women to pursue more meaningful roles in society. How much more newsworthy was it when the first female Supreme court justice broke the ring rather than the scalding that Sotomayor received. It was barely newsworthy unless there was some scandal. I bet if she posed naked she would have been idolized – strong, smart and sexy. Indeed sexy has become the pre-requisite to being a role model. I commend Rihanna, I pity Chris Brown in many ways he is a victim of what society says is a strong male. But as my mother and my father said, “you should never hit a girl (in anger)…. never.” Thanks mom and dad. I’ll just occasionally bite and nibble at them with affection

Shame on her. At least he respected her privacy. I wonder if she holds up a copy of her new record at the end of the intervew. She does not come of as a good person, just someone looking for sympathy.

She has the money and the opportunities for a better life. Why didn’t she leave him!! It’s not like she was stuck. Come on people!! Take responsibility for your actions. But I guess any publicity is good for album sales.

The only way that domestic violence will ever stop is for women like Rihanna to keep talking, sharing our stories, & fighting for our rights until we have a society that holds perpatrators responsible and simply will not tolerate it!!

I like the fact that she’s speaking out. I think it’s important to speak about the shame and embarrassment that so many feel.

But when she talked about him having no soul in his eyes, that hit me…hard. I know exactly what that is. I’ve seen it.

She is clearly doing this for album sales, which is not going to work. Her new single suck and she should have been came out about the incident!

Ilove Rihanna ,she so sweet ,she must forget about Chris he’s not a human .” Rihanna you are young. you have so many possiblities in life so just forget about Chris,”

I totally agree she is doing this interview for album sales… I’m not buying the innocent front she is putting up. I “used” to be a fan of hers, but this whole situation has me shaded as I don’t see her being completely honest. Riri needs to find another way to make her album sale! Sorry boo keep it real or go back into hiding

Rihanna: Chris Brown Had “No Soul in His Eyes” During Assault

Maybe she meant Chris Brown really likes Don “No Soul” Simmons!

Rihanna is a little more articulate than mush-mouthed Chris Brown.

But at the end of the day, they are both shallow idiots, and I couldn’t care less if either one of them died.

I’ve followed this story from beginning to now and more and more is coming to light. People, there is more to this than meets the eye. No! I don’t believe in men abusing women. No! I don’t agree with men putting women in head locks or anything of that nature. However, I do believe there are always three sides to a story; there’s her, his and the then there’s truth. That is where I’m standing, I am the mother of a youngman that was raised never to put his hand on a girl, younglady, or for that matter a female in general. What I noticed after years of preaching this to my son is; there was a different breed of girl coming up out here. The girls, not all, but some or should I say a lot, or being raised harder than some of our young men. There was a time when girls respected themselves, when girls wouldn’t call a youngman after a certain time, when girls wouldn’t cuss out or use profanity in ear shot of a youngman’s mother. These young girls now a days or doing that plus more. They raise their hands to hit faster in some cases. I believe that’s what happened with Rihanna when she caught him in a lie and he wouldn’t tell the truth. Rihanna, the more you talk about that night and rehash the events, the more the truth will shine through. I watched the interview, and your body language;says another thing. What I gathered from both is you’re still not telling the entire truth. I’ll say this to you and then if I were you I would drop it, let the wounds heal and go on with your life. You are not the type of woman that would just sit there in a heated argument and let Chris or any other man get the ups on you. Your M.O. says that you are just as likely to strike someone, male or otherwise as them you. I say at first you had the upper hand in that car because he was driving and you had the truth on your side. (The Text message) but when he did not give in and things began to escalate and you struck him with that phone, and he had to push you against the window to keep you off him. The only way he couldv’e done that was for you to be launching at him or something to that affect. When he started on you and you were nolonger in control that’s when you became the victim. Chris, you were wrong because you allowed it to escalate. I admire the fact that you are taking your punishment like a man and I pray that you both learn from this. Rihanna, not every man is going to let you get away with striking them. So you stop too! Yes, I read about your previous altercations.
I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ABUSE IN ANY FASHION FROM A MAN OR WOMAN!
AListens

to those who said she should have left him and is stupid for not leaving him: Hello! She DID leave him! (Idiots.)

I love you chis brown

As the former wife of 80’s pop star Stevie Woods, I believed each incident would be the last, but in reality, the violence only escalated through time. A victimizer will abuse every woman he’s with. Love is a hard addiction to break, but you must end it before it ends your life.
-Cheri Woods

Those are such thoughtful comments AListen,you stupid piss ant.Sounds like you’ve had a little experience down there beating on women. How ’bout you come visit Lil rayray .I got a surprise for you boy!

So Rhianna was so upset that she had to speak out…just when her new album is coming out. A new low in self-promotion. Maybe if he’d shot her she’d have held out for a boxed set.

God forbid I would ever approve of domestic violence, even on the emotional level, because I have grown up watching my own father hitting my mother and I hate him to date! However, it saddens me to se Rihanna use this sad situation 8 moths later, coinciding with her album release…

That is so shallow! Screw the money,that is betraying who you are!

She should have spoken out months ago!

The new CD wasn’t ready yet, dumbass.

I have mixed feelings about this.

Abuse is a horrible thing in a any situation. There is just no excuse to hurt someone you ‘love.’

But Rihannia to talk about it when she’s promoting her new album is in bad taste. It takes a serious situation and makes it into “Feel sorry for me and buy my album.”

she is the devil

i resent people who prey on other people’s weakness. i hope more woman start to speak up regarding this matter.

CHRIS DNT WORRY I LOVE YA ALL DA WAY HATE RIHANNA

WHY SHOULD PEOPLE KEEP SAYING RIHANNA SHOULD LEAVE,MANY OF THEM SAYING SUCH SHIT HAD SUFFERED MORE THAN RIHANNA SUFFERED IN HANDS OF CHRIS,RIHANNA IS BETTER THAN MANY OF THEM……LOL IS BECAUSE RIHANNA’S CASE WAS OPEN.

I SO MUCH LOVED RIHANNA GOING BACK TO CHRIS,THIS LOVE WILL BE STRONGER THAN BEFORE.

HAHAHA,RIHANNA I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

Being someone who comes from the Island I know the We Island women tend to have a temper. I know that Rihana was not as inoccent in this situation as she would like to protay to the world. Of course she a female the weakess of both species therefore the sympathy all goes toward her. Not so much because of what Chris did but more becuase she is beatiful. How dare he do that to such a beautifull girl…right. I have three daughter annd I’ll be damn if a boy or man put their hand on them. But I have also told my daughters that you need to also respect and keep your hands to yourself as well. I have told them that if they initiate hitting someone wheather female or male expect the consequences. I believe that we need to teach our daughters that sometimes all that yelling and poking fingers, or swiping others face with thiers hands is unacceptable. We have to open our eyes and realize that our boys are being abused by our girls who used thier “female fragilness” as a way to implicate our sometimes inocent boys.

We need to stop using domestic violence to refer to what happened to Rhianna. As we have all heard Chris Brown beating of her only happened that night (once). And it happened out of her insisting and demanding anwers. She clearly have stated that he never before placed his hands on her. I do not believe that her sistuation should be labeled domestic violence. Domestic violence is a repeated offense. What happend to her was an involuntary assault. Which hopefully her and Chris Brown will use as an opportunity to reflect on and realize both their wrong doing. And, hopefully will use as a guidance if ever they find themselve in such a situation, to now how to resolve the issue before it escalate to violence. I would not want to see her as the poster child for domestic abuse. Her case does not qualify her for that possition.