We all know this...teenagers are out of touch with the real world. But this article in The New York Times about the Chris Brown/Rhianna Fiasco got me floored!
IN the hallway of Hostos-Lincoln Academy in the Bronx this week, two ninth-grade girls discussed the pop singer Chris Brown, 19, who faces two felony charges for allegedly beating his girlfriend, the pop singer Rihanna, 21. At first, neither girl had believed Mr. Brown, an endearing crooner, could have done such a thing.Some of the quotes from the two 9th grade girls that were interviewed:
"She probably made him mad for him to react like that.""She probably feels bad that it was her fault, so she took him back."
"I don’t think he’ll hit her like that again."
What?!
In a recent survey of 200 teenagers by the Boston Public Health Commission, 46 percent said Rihanna was responsible for what happened; 52 percent said both bore responsibility, despite knowing that Rihanna’s injuries required hospital treatment. On a Facebook discussion, one girl wrote, “she probly ran into a door and was too embarrassed so blamed it on chris.”
These adoring Chris Brown fans are taking his side even though he was very very much in the wrong. These teen girls can't believe he'd beat his girlfriend up. The know him through his music, his interviews in magazines, and he's too sweet to do something like this.
One girl thought that just because they were celebrities the whole thing was getting blown out of proportion:
“My best friend got hit by her boyfriend, and I don’t see people making a big deal about it,” Ms. Shores said.
What is this world coming to?
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i'm a little sick to my stomach. if my daughter ever reacts like this, i'll throw myself under a bus.
It's really a sad situation.
I teach an anger management class to at-risk youth, and this came up at a perfect time with my last class. We actually had three girls in the class, which never happens, and we talked a lot about this. None of them thought it was OK.
This class, it's all boys. When we talk about dating violence, they all act horrified and that they would never do it, but given the statistics, I KNOW there are kids in my class who have been abusive to their girlfriends.
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