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Putting women on a pedestal and treating them as objects in which we must protect because they are helpless and pure and unable to do harm is bullshit and it's creepy.
If it wasn't for them being famous and Rihanna having every woman's rights leader in her corner including Oprah she probably wouldn't have been willing to testify against him and the charges would have been dropped and she probably would have went back to him. To say he got off easy because he's rich is nonsense. The only reason they pursued it as much as they did is because it angered the public and they pressured(in a good way) Rihanna into doing the right thing and testifying against him which she ultimately didn't have to do.
You have to remember, Brown is very young. He's 19 years old. He'd never been in trouble before. Years of probation and tons of community service isn't getting off easy. It's also not life ruining either like 5 years of prison would have been. You may think probation is a walk in the park because your friends did it, but guess what, your friends didn't have a video camera on them 18 hours a day and every little thing they did recorded. Every Paparazzi shot of Chris Brown is going to be seen by his PO who's just waiting to toss his ass in prison.
I'm not saying domestic abuse is acceptable but women get away with more violence because A) Men are less likely to report abuse and B) Men don't even have to touch a woman for them to bring charges against them. This however is not relevant to the Rihanna case. I don't know the cause of the assault. I did see the picture and I'm sure that no matter what happened she didn't deserve that.
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