Tag Archives: Rihanna
This is what piling on Rihanna looks like
TweetWhen Ann Friedman recently wrote a great piece about the risk in piling on Rihanna for reconciling with Chris Brown, I nodded along, despite my own personal feelings about the case. It’s really hard to simultaneously advocate for survivors of violence and encourage women to leave, when Rihanna and Chris Brown’s reconciliation is so high [...]
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5 Reasons the Chris Brown and Rihanna SVU episode was both awesome and bad
TweetWarning: Spoilers! Last night, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit premiered a new episode “ripped from the headlines,” with a story line that was obviously supposed to be a take off of Chris Brown and Rihanna. A singer named Micha Charles and her boyfriend, hip hop star Caleb Bryant get into an argument when Bryant [...]
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Rihanna going back to Chris Brown doesn’t make her a “bad girl”
TweetI’ve noticed a theme emerging in the mainstream media of late. Namely, the idea that singer Rihanna is a “bad girl.” Yes, she has an album called, “A Good Girl Gone Bad,” and certainly is living the “rock star” lifestyle of late night partying and traveling all over the world, but all too often these [...]
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High school students criticized for blackface skit depicting violence against Rihanna, shrug shoulders
Tweet Ed. note: This post is part of the second round of the Feministing “So You Think You Can Blog” contributor contest (background here). Stay tuned all week as our six finalists take turns turns covering the blog and giving us a sense of their personal contributor style. The winner of the contest and newest [...]
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Friday Feminist Fuck Yeah: It’s National Masturbation Month