Delete Chris Brown’s Career Not Just His Twitter Feed

How many times must the obvious be on display before we get the message? How many times must Chris Brown prove that he is both incapable of managing his anger (even after anger management) and dealing with his misogyny?

Yes, he was lured into his latest twitter brawl. That is not in dispute.  Chris Brown isn’t the brightest candle on the birthday cake.  That too is not in dispute.  Most importantly not in dispute is that Brown’s response to comedian Jenny Johnson was vile, despicable and unjustified.

Since the exchange, Brown has deleted his page and Johnson has allegedly received multiple death threats.  And who the hell would DARE mention his own mom in  misogyny about defecating in either the mouth or the eye of another woman…other than Chris Brown?!

Ever heard of blocking someone Chris?  I’m sure somewhere, right now, Chris Brown is explaining adamantly how he was neither wrong nor would have changed a thing.  Why?  Because he keeps doing the same thing, time and time again.  If Chris Brown is anything, he’s consistent.

Let me be exceptionally clear, there is nothing that Johnson said which necessitated or justified the type of response Brown offered. Only a rudderless child would think such a public and vulgar rant was appropriate or reasonable in nature.  If he says nothing in response, he would have won and Johnson receives the heat but common sense has never been too common in the Brown house.  At times I wished Brown was on drugs or an alcoholic…for then at least there might have been a reasonable explanation for being so out of touch with reality.

But no…it’s just who he is.

For far too long, Brown and his supporters have made the argument that people need to “let it go” or Brown has “paid his debt.”

Wrong…and wrong.

Paying a debt to society only refers to the judicial system and the penalties levied by it. There is no expiration date on the social pariah label. Ask OJ Simpson, and he was even found “not guilty” (well at least the first time around). Ask child molesters and rapists. Brown doesn’t get to decide when the beating of Rihanna no longer matters to you or me. In fact, Rihanna doesn’t decide for us either. Her willingness to re-engage Brown is not a mitigating factor. If anything, it’s battered woman syndrome on full display.

What Brown supporters fail to acknowledge or understand is that one’s artistic ability never outweighs decency. Would we passively accept the random man beating our sister? Would we excuse a random man tossing a chair at a window because he found ONE interview question uncomfortable? Would we make allowances for a random man publicly tweeting he would defecate in the eye of our sister, our mother, our daughter?

Of course we wouldn’t.

It is ridiculous to suggest then that such behavior is more acceptable or excusable because the man in question is not random, but instead a superstar singer. Chris Brown has zero respect for women, none. Chris Brown is unable to control his temper, even post anger management counseling. He’s guilty of verbal and physical abuse of women and public vulgar, misogynistic displays toward women. There’s nothing to debate here. He has demonstrated time and time again he simply doesn’t get it. He can’t even fake it and isn’t trying all that hard to trick you or me.

This is no way excuses Jenny Johnson’s instigation but let’s be real…Jenny to my knowledge didn’t previously send someone half her size to the hospital either.

Deleting a twitter page does nothing to address the root issues here, his emotional instability. Nothing has changed with Brown since first pushing his fist into Rihanna’s eye socket. He is neither contrite nor humble, making the same horrible decisions as he did prior to putting hands on Rihanna. It’s the same guy, acting in the same uncontrollable fashion. We know how this story ends.

And make no mistake, Rihanna reconciling with Brown has only exacerbated the situation. It sends the horrible message to Brown that he has no reason to change. It sends the horrible message to both abusive men and battered women that Brown-Rihanna is either normal or nominal in nature.

There will be another embarrassing and misogynistic Chris Brown incident, of that I’m sure. There will be another public, hateful display and deleting Twitter will do nothing to prevent it. Twitter was never the problem, it was always Brown. That’s like removing all the alcohol from the house but never treating the alcoholic.

Until Brown is truly held accountable for his behavior and is forced to address his emotional instability, there will be no change. If he is unable to reasonably maneuver text criticism regarding the beating of Rihanna even years later, then Brown should withdraw from public life altogether. There will be more criticism and more goading on the horizon, without a doubt.

Punching women in the face with your fists will never be acceptable and no number of hit singles (no pun intended) will ever change this fact.  Delete Chris Brown’s career, not just his Twitter feed.

 

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