It's dishonest, it's untruthful, it's downright lies..
Where are the programs, advertising, stickers and handouts for women NOT to be violent ?
NOTHING..Women know they can get away it..
Has Rihanna got the guts, the dignity or honesty to confess that she may have been the instigator or at least endure some accountability ?
No, they avoid any possibility of accepting responsibility as neither courage or honesty avoids them. Their social standing would be affected and someone may think (gasp) that they might actually be an abuser..
Let's wait and see what Woods was involved in. If he was abused by a vindictive and violent partner you will not read that in the paper either..
Let's just blame the male, it's easier..
Meanwhile pertaining to this article we have another one of those "huge" surveys of at least 200, wow, Robyn must be delving deep to promote her hysteria. How's that for a journalist of irrelevance. Cannot wait to get onto her little male-bashing hobby horse..
Probably unknown or denied by her is the fact that women are the most prominent responders for those type of surveys and women themselves know what they are like..
Stop blaming women for violence
Robyn Riley – Sunday, November 29, 09 (12:01 am)
SHOCKING as the physical abuse was that US singer Chris Brown inflicted on former girlfriend Rihanna, I find the results of a survey of the teenage perceptions of that sad case even more devastating.
According to a survey of 200 teens after the incident, 46 per cent considered she was at fault and 52 per cent believed both parties were responsible.
That just proves how far we still have to go when it comes to educating about violence against women.
Certainly it suggests that we seriously have to consider anti-violence programs in our schools, as reported this week.
Something needs to be done to give kids, in particular, a reality check when it comes to violence against women and this unhealthy implication so many seem to believe. You know - that somehow the victim, the woman, deserved it.
In the Chris Brown case, remember he pleaded guilty. Police alleged it started as a verbal argument and ended with Brown punching Rihanna repeatedly in the face, biting her left ear, biting her fingers and placing her in a headlock until she began to lose consciousness.
Brown was sentenced in June to six months’ community work and five years’ probation.
Maybe the reaction of fans could have been confused if Rihanna refused to discuss such a private and confronting issue, but she has been open and upfront.
The 21-year-old has spoken of her “embarrassment” at taking Brown back, albeit briefly, after the assault. She told US interviewer Diane Sawyer she realised she was setting a bad example for girls.
“I realised that my selfish decision for love could result in some girl getting killed,” she said.
Her assault was made more public because photographs of her after the attack were leaked to the website TMZ.com.
That battered and bruised face should have sent shock waves among her legion of young fans.
Instead, it seems a huge percentage believed she was somehow to blame.
Let us hope in years to come, Rihanna is not just remembered as an artist, but as someone who helped to turn this ugly issue around.
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