http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/fashion/19brown.html
I cannot believe this...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
What are we teaching our little girls?
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4 comments:
This article is disturbing on many different levels. Although I guess I should have been shocked by how many thought it was the girl's fault for the beating, I really wasn't because that is the way that our society socializes both girls and boys in our society. The comment by one of the high school girls about how both males and females hit each other in a relationship may be true but it ignores the fact that in general men are stronger and can thus inflict more damage on their partner than when girls hit their boyfriends.
I can't really explain my thoughts and feelings on this story. I am avid reader of gossip blogging sites and personally don't really care about this rihanna and chris brown thing. Another note, it is sad that if teenage girls think it is there fault that they got beat up. From personal experience after the first fight with my ex-boyfriend. I let him go the same day and never looked back. Most girls do not have the same courage and grow up into being in abusive relationships.
i don't know if everyone had this class in grade school, but I had to learn the difference between good touch and bad touch in school. It tried teaching us about the difference of abuse and other types of anger as well as other things.
If you're a child that has never experienced abuse, you only think that such events come from a mutual fight. such fights need to be started by SOMEONE. We're not teaching young boys or girls the difference between abuse and fighting. Not that one is more positive than the other in either way, but I can see how a young girl can be confused.
After reading this article I talked to some of the Girl Scouts from North Albany as I drove them to Siena. I asked if they thought it was Rihanna's fault Chris Brown had hit her. The girls seemed angered at me for even suggesting that she may have been responsible. I then told them about the article and they couldn't figure out why some girls would feel that way. The girls tried to come up with ideas as to why someone would think that. Someone suggested that maybe they were abused and they felt like it was their fault. Overall the girls and I couldn't fathom that so many girls would still support Chris Brown. As we were talking about this a Chris Brown song came on the radio and they made me change the station. The article was really disturbing but it was comforting to know that my girls were smarter than that.
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