Rihanna Should Take More Responsibility

Rihanna recently spoke out to Diane Sawyer on 20/20 about the incident between her and Chris Brown last February.

First of all, I do not condone domestic violence of any kind. Like Oprah said, "Love doesn't hurt", but I do feel that Rihanna was a little bit arrogant in the interview, and didn't take responsibility for her part in the incident. I do feel that she was well spoken and I commend her for being able to talk about it so openly now, but I think that she was holding back a little bit and took some jabs @ Chris Brown that were unnecessary. She used the interview to be a positive example to women in her same situation, and instead she tried to make it seem that she was 0% responsible.

She admitted that they were very much in love, and being in love with her best friend made them "EQUALLY dangerous for each other. It was a bit of an obsession". That comment made me feel some kinda way IMMEDIATELY. In my eyes, it was a confession that she was infatuated with Chris, and it probably led to some suspect behavior. Maybe she was possessive towards him or maybe she was just aggravating, but that is just as big of a factor as the domestic violence of both of their pasts is. She held back to me in the fact that she should have taken more responsibility for the situation. To not take that responsibility and be able to admit her involvement in the incident made me look at her in a different way.

“I caught him in a lie. And he wouldn’t tell the truth … I was being more annoyed at that point in our relationship

he had to lie about something so stupid. I couldn’t take that he kept lying to me. And he couldn’t take that I wouldn’t drop it. And … it was ugly.

Another thing that made me upset was the fact that she said that she was humiliated because of the photo that was taken by police and leaked to the press. I cannot put myself in her situation and say what I would have said or that I would not be ashamed, but I feel that she should use it to help other girls who are being abused and do not know what to do. You cannot control who you fall in love with, and you also cannot control that person's actions. She should have made this situation better for other girls and women and used herself as an example for them to help them get away from their situations.

She began to explain how she realized that she was in influence for young girls and she was being selfish for choosing love instead of the right thing, but she made it about her instead of leaving with the message of hope for the young girls.

I also thought that it was a little too BIG of a coincidence that her new album, Rated R is set to be released November 20th.