The saga of Rihanna and Chris Brown is odd to me, but probably in a way that you wouldn’t expect. Yes, he assaulted her. Yes she was a bit of a twit, but she didn’t deserve it. Yes, he seemed pretty remorseful and paid his debt to society. Even more likely, he seems to have paid his debt to her (or why else would he take him back? And please spare me the psychobabble that approximates to stockholm syndrome). It’s possible that another assault (on her, someone else) is in his future, but I personally don’t think it’s likely. At the very least I hate the thought of branding young people for life for youthful mistakes. Especially for things that huge portions of the population indulge in (fighting to the point of assault) but that never gets reported or found; likely because they attract less attention from the authorities.
No, what is odd to me is that this gorgeous pop superstar, who has access to almost any man she wants in the world, would single this particular man out for her mate. It almost makes you believe in soul mates. Now there could be a lot of corrupting factors in what seems like a pretty simple case. Some include a) she is even more of a twit than we think and is basically emotionally stunted b)Her particular life makes “access to any man she wants” only theoretical and like everything in life and love, ‘proximity and history is everything’; c) etc. Anyway things along those lines. But still this is fundamentally a lonely world and superstars by definition have something that a lot of people struggle with – extraordinary sexual access. That she would scope this access to this particular man is indeed worth the time to figure out what is really going on from a sociological stand point.
