I'm by no means a Rihanna fan. I won't say she got what she deserved either. There's no excuse for a man hitting a woman regardless if some of them deserve it sometiimes. But this whole Rihanna-Chris Brown thing is being ridiculously overdone in my opinion and I was over 9 months ago (a.k.a. when it happened)
Rihanna is by no-means special, women are victims of domestic violence everyday. Because she a celebrity, however, the whole thing got blown up a lot more than it needed to be.
I thankfully caught the end of the interview Diane Sawyer did on 20/20 last night and I'd seen a few clips of her talking about the incident. From the little bit that I saw, I felt Rihanna didn't really want to break up with Chris Brown. I'm sure after the restraining order expires he'll be secretly smashing, and in my opinion she only did it because her publicist reminded her that she is a public figure, women look up to her and sticking with Brown would send the wrong message. Ooh and those corporate sponsors would have dropped her a$$ (and I'm sure that girl wants all the money she can get, I would).
This story represents that good ole news value of timeliness. She's got an album coming out (so does Brown) and after avoiding the press, jet setting everywhere, she knew she needed to gather a little more public sympathy and finally give it from her side. The workings of a publicist is stamped all over both of them. Chris Brown's bowtie and puppy dog eyes on Larry King Live, Rihanna's crisp look and statements about setting the right example for women and such on GMA, none of this seems real to me.
I try not to judge or jump to conclusions (am I contradicting myself? maybe) about what happened because I wasn't there and we'll never have the real full story unless we were.
In the end, however, I feel sorry for both her and Chris Brown. I'm a believer in love and they both admitted and made it clear that they really love each other. I'm sad that the circumstances forced them to lose that.
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