Tweets about Chris Brown sets women’s rights back

By Kelly Michelle Gagné

“You can punch me in the face, as long as you kiss me afterwards.”

Any chance you’re still able to hear Chris Brown’s name without cringing?

Were you one of the many who was watching the 54^th annual Grammy awards last week? Maybe you weren’t watching, but you definitely were up-to-date with updates every two minutes thanks to Twitter and Facebook.

I know the feeling.  My Twitter feed was an explosion of tweets about who wore what best, the recent and tragic death of Whitney Houston, who should-have-won-what Grammy, and then came the Chris Brown tweets, which trended for a week.

Talk about an explosion of controversy right after he accepted his Grammy. Female fans were expressing their love for Chris by tweeting things such as:

“Everyone shut up about Chris Brown being a woman beater…Shiiiittt he can beat me up all night if he wants.”  @_anniegregg, or “Dude, Chris brown can punch me in the face as much as he wants to, just as long as he kisses it (:” @KaylaMarieWatts.

I’m sure victims of assault everywhere approve of this kind of talk. Nothing says you respect yourself as a woman more than by completely degrading years of the struggle for women’s rights in a single tweet.

These female Chris Brown fans really stirred the pot and have had their tweets posted on websites everywhere from “25 extremely upsetting reactions to Chris Brown at the Grammys” to news and magazine articles, and you name it.

But the ultimate question is whether fans and observers can separate the artist from the music. Should they?

Many people have at least some common sense and respect Brown as an artist, but realize he has made mistakes and that he needs to grow up and get help.  It’s just the brainwashed girls that the rest of the population is worried about.

It makes you wonder how corrupted girls and women from 13-30 are and how they view themselves. Part of me wants to believe they just don’t realize the power of the statements they are making.

My biggest issue right now is the effect those tweets will have on women and even men, on how they view assault and abuse. It makes you wonder what these girls really think of themselves and how they view assault.

At the end of the day, we need to really take into account that celebrities are people as well. Just because they are famous does not mean they are some kind of superhuman.

They still can be capable of good and evil actions and these girls and women need to really find a way to grow up and to stop obsessing over these celebrity icons.

Now aren’t we all just excited for the 55^th Annual Grammy Award shows and what they will bring? Get ready, your Twitter and Facebook feeds are going to be hurtin’.