A reader sent a question to GQ asking:
Has Chris Brown ever been on the GQ cover? and if not when will he be?
The GQ response?
Might be a while. It is Gentlemen’s Quarterly, after all, not
Ironically-Named-Magazine-That-Knowingly-Puts-Domestic-Abusers-On-It’s-Cover
Quarterly
Now that it is getting publicity (the question was posted in December of
last year), we can pretty much guarantee Chris Brown will never be on
the cover, unless they want to be the center of a public backlash...
Chris Brown. The difficulty in treating the Christopher Brown case fairly is that my reaction to his continued existence is dichotomous in nature: on one hand, I'd prefer to give him a chance at redemption--on the other, he beat a bitch bad, and she's making shittier music as a result, as if it weren't bad enough that he kicked her ass.
ReplyDeleteJokes aside, I just am especially biased against women-beaters. I'm personally glad that his shit is getting shut down as a result. I thought R[obert]. Kelly's post-golden-shower profits were absolutely retarded in light of his crimes against adolescence. He really got off scott-free. On the other hand, the scourge of the male-female dynamic is finally recognized in Chris Borwn vs. Rihanna [Last Name Pending], and as a result Mr. Brown is re-classified a sub-human.
It's a step in the right direction, in my honest opinion. I'm tired of seeing baby mamas with three babies from three successive psychologically/maybe physically/definitely physically abusive asswipes. I'm tired of these assholes essentially being able to walk the Earth sans repercussion due to the dangling flesh between their legs and the Lee Dungaree jeans they've worn for a few hundred years (and other things for the other thousands, I guess). I'm also tired of these assholes being ironically Amish--but that's a whole 'nother story.
Bottomline of this sleep-dep-fueled rant is that C. Brown should consider a new career where celebrity is not a side-effect, and cashflow is more reasonable. Like, maybe a cafeteria chef.
I am of the opinion that there is something fundamentally wrong with someone if they consider brute force an acceptable avenue through which to channel their feelings. Particularly when it involves someone that they supposedly love. I don't think C. Brown is capable of redemption (his music SUCKS).
ReplyDeleteI read this today about a women's rights advocate, and it made me think of Chris Brown: "she believes violence against women will stop- and presumably the same is true for violence against blacks, Jews, children, homosexuals, or other targeted classes- only when other men refuse to socially reward those who are violent. 'Women can't do it by ourselves. If a man hits his girlfriend, the man's friends need to stop playing basketball with him, and they need to tell him why. They need to confront him about it, and they need to socially isolate the the men who have show themselves incapable of mature relationships. And they need to do it every time. The bottom line is that members of the class of people who are doing the violence- in this case, men- need to take responsibility for the violence done by their class, and they need to work to stop it. Until that happens, not very much will change." But what do we do? We just dance to his awful music.
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