b. how long do wait to forgive someone of battery?
c. should we forgive chris brown?
a. i say no. it immediately reminded me of the day of the dead skull things. and his rep says it is based of a sugar skull design.
b. not for a very very long time. i think this is one of those things that your reputation can never / probably should never really recover from. it's like being a rapist or a child molester. can you wish you never did those things and would never ever again? sure. but that stuff's really bad. it's not like making a simple wrong decision, like shoplifting.
c. in brown's case, definitely not yet. he beat up rihanna really really badly. he strangled her, hit her, and did not stop. and this all happened only three years ago. since then he hasn't shown remorse ("It's not really a big deal to me now, as far as that situation. I think I'm past that in my life." ""I'm so over people bringing this past s**t up!!!" [...yes, because your feelings matter, not that of your victim.]). and he clearly still has an anger problem (last year's incident at gma, this year's fight with drake).
just because rihanna clearly seems to have forgiven him doesn't mean that the rest of us should. maybe she's really goddamn stupid. maybe he lies to her and she's bought it. maybe he does feel badly about the situation and has managed to hold on his anger (for now?). maybe he really has changed. or maybe not.
in any case, the thing that really bothers me is that brown himself seems to think that just because some time has passed, and that rihanna has forgiven him, nothing else matters. but what he did was really terrible. and he's a public figure so he does have to make it up to his fans. btw, time itself doesn't mean anything. just cause it's been three years (which is not even a long time) doesn't mean that you're automatically forgiven.
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