So.
 
The overwhelming response from the Chris Brown camp (I know, I'm sorry; it's news) is "Rihanna must have provoked him, there's no way he'd slap her without her deserving it." As well as his cousin's statement that "He just feels bad that fans are looking down on him like he did something wrong."
 
Que?? Correct me if I'm wrong, but domestic violence IS wrong. The kid was hospitalised after he was through with her. So why is it that retarded little Chris fans all over the interwebz are posting blogs about how Rihanna is a bitch and deserved it? Why are his family taking the same defensive approach? I mean, I don't know about the rest of you but if I found out MY cousin had knocked his girlfriend around so much she ended up in the ER, I wouldn't be defending him. At the very least, I wouldn't say anything.
 
I like how domestic abuse awareness has taken five steps back this week with the Rihanna situation. Apparently, people will defend an attacker if he has a couple of hit records under his belt, or looks cute in a pair of Gucci shades. Teenage girls everywhere defending the scum sucking little asshole just proves what Awareness groups have been saying all along; like it or not, public sentiment is generally "what happens behind closed doors isn't our concern" and/or "nobody gets a punch in the face without asking for it".
 
Jesus Christ. People make me sick.