ayoungladysillustratedprimer:

Awesome piece by Sasha Paulka on Hello Giggles.

I’m sick and tired of people acting like it’s no big deal that Chris Brown will be performing at the Grammys.

I’m frustrated that the mainstream media is covering this story like it’s any comeback story, like an exiled prince’s return to a former glory, like this is another political timeline — as though some rich and powerful old white men in the music business have not just issued an enormous ‘f**k you’ to every woman who has been, is or will be on the receiving end of domestic violence.

We should be furious.

Why aren’t we?

Read it and consider what we’re being told, and what we’re accepting.

I find this especially problematic considering what happened yesterday. Whitney Houston’s death should be making us even more sensitive to the reality of domestic violence and the way in which it shapes lives in negative ways, and the fact that chris brown is performing in light of this is like some kind of cruel joke. He isn’t a comeback story. He’s someone who beat his girlfriend to the point that she needed hospitalization. Are you okay with that? Seriously think about that before you answer. Why aren’t more people outraged that he’s just being let back into the music scene as if it never happened?