I'm So Disappointed

The whole Chris Brown/Rihanna situation has been very depressing from the get-go, but the longer it goes on the worse it seems to get. What is bumming me out of late about the travesty? The fact that Rihanna has apparently taken Brown back. The situation not only resonates poorly for her, it's dangerously reverberating through our nation's teens. Rihanna experienced an act of extreme violence and abuse at the hands of someone who was supposed to love her. The world waited for her to make a statement - mainly one that included Chris being kicked to the curb and thrown in jail. Instead she's doing everything she can to help him, which is a very sad thing to watch. I know she's young, she thinks she's in love and she might not be prepared to become a lifetime spokesperson for domestic violence. It's a shame on so many levels though - not only what this means for her personally, but the message it has sent to teenagers as well. The New York Times recently ran an article about the situation and the reaction from high schoolers is terrifying. Most kids interviewed believed that Rihanna somehow "deserved it" and that Chris "won't hit her like that again." This is bad news, folks. How can we fix this? I wish Rihanna had been able to walk away.