$1,000 Bounty to First Person Who Beats Up Chris Brown Since Chris Brown’s appearance at the 2012 Grammys three years post–Rihanna beating, the notorious actor/dancer/nonprofessional intergender boxer has gotten a few well-publicized invitations to fight someone who can fight back. First there was the Twitter campaign of amateur MMA fighter @ChrsBrwnChllnge; then WWE champ CM Punk’s scathing video message. Obviously, with both parties, there’s no chance an actual throwdown will ever occur. But that’s because both of those plans involve Chris Brown’s consent to getting beaten up. You dummies! What we need is true Internet Justice. Kevin Seccia, fisticuffsmanship guru and proprietor of the hilarious satirical blog How to Beat Up Anything, thinks it’s time to raise the stakes and hire a mercenary black-eye assassin. He’s offering a thousand-dollar bounty on Brown, with the caveat that OF COURSE HE IS KIDDING, THIS IS ILLEGAL, BUT IF SOMEONE JUST HAPPENS TO BEAT CHRIS BROWN UP, THAT PERSON WILL RECEIVE $1,000. (Also, there are some rules: at least two punches to the face, knock him down, film the whole thing.) Hello! Thank you in advance for reading this. I am offering a bounty of one thousand dollars to the first person who beats up Chris Brown. Grammy Awards, there is blood on your hands. Not actual blood, of course, like the kind Chris Brown had on his hands after he committed that heinous crime he never paid for, I’m talking about the figurative kind. Seccia contacted a lawyer, who told him that if someone actually assaulted Brown, Seccia could be charged with criminal solicitation: “You arguably solicited, requested, commanded, importuned or otherwise attempted to cause someone else to engage in criminal conduct.” So, Seccia says, So, for legal reasons I will say this is partially a joke, and partially a way to bring some measure of pain and discomfort (non-physical) to a terrible, vicious human being who deserves far worse, HOWEVER, if you were to hit him and then email me video proof of that beating, I would absolutely, one hundred percent guaranteed send you a thousand dollars. You know, that money I already owed you, or something. (Honestly, I like our chances with a sane jury.) The man is committed. He’s done his research. He’s written a level-headed call to arms. He really, really wants to see Brown’s ass kicked — and he’s trusting that a lot of people do too. There are worse ways to spend $1,000. No one can say Chris Brown doesn’t deserve it. Still, I have my doubts that beating up this angry, psychotic domestic abuser is going to do any good for the world, even if it is incredibly cathartic for a lot of us. I have a sneaking suspicion that Brown, the weak-willed child that he his, would react to an assault by taking out his anger on someone weaker than him, perhaps a woman, perhaps Rihanna again. Years of abuse and normalized violence are what led to that assault in the first place. Brown has the immaturity and petulance of someone whose development was severely halted in adolescence. In his warped and abuse-addled worldview, sending your girlfriend to the hospital is just part of life. It’ll take a lot of learned empathy and immersion in domestic-abuse education for him to admit that what he did is not OK, and it’ll take a major revolution in the music industry before institutions like the Grammys stop endorsing him and reinforcing his belief that us haters should just get over it. Beating him up won’t change the man, but it’d sure be entertaining. Maybe that’s all we can ask for. I’d sure as hell watch a clip of it on WorldStar. PREVIOUSLY: • Watch Wrestler CM Punk’s Intensely Personal Challenge to ‘Sad, Cowardly’ Chris Brown • 15 Questions for Chris Brown’s MMA Challenger • College Kids Expelled for Sneaker-Stealing Beatdown After Posting Evidence Online
MaleMatters 26.02.12 @ 2:05 pm I realize that the mainstream media, when it comes to violence between the sexes, provides only the “men are violent” feminist view. But I think the Rihanna-Brown abuse story needs to be revisited. Here’s an example of how the big media have told the story thus far: “[Rihanna] picked up Brown’s cellular telephone and observed a text message from a woman with whom Brown had a previous sexual relationship. A verbal argument ensued. She turned to face him and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand.” See Boston Globe report at http://tinyurl.com/6uj2x63 But the earliest newspaper reports showed what was left out of this narrative. According to them, an argument ensued, and Rihanna started slapping and kicking him. In other words, she drew first blood. (Her knowing this may be why she supposedly now wants Brown back. http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/02/23/rihanna-chris-brown-dating-jay-z-mad/) Now, I know it’s extremely difficult — if not impossible — for most media people to forget, even for a fleeting second, the image of the “ever-innocent, victimized female” and to put themselves for another fleeting second in the shoes of the “awful violent male.” But let’s try it. Imagine, especially if you are a woman, that you’re driving about 30-40 miles per hour along the road. Suppose your front-seat passenger, a man you’re involved with, is looking through your phone. He finds a recent call from a former boyfriend. Suppose further that instead of saying, “Pull over. We need to talk,” he starts slapping and kicking you AS YOU DRIVE, PUTTING BOTH OF YOU AT RISK. I’m on record stating that violence is always wrong except in self-defense. But realistically speaking, what would many people do? What would a 19-year-old do, one who has never been trained to “discuss his feelings”? What would the average person when you’re driving your car and your passenger starts slapping and kicking you? I believe that a huge number of non-politically-correct people would admit they’d lose their temper while being attacked at the very wrong time. See “Open Letter to Senate Judiciary on the VAWA” at http://malemattersusa.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/open-letter-to-senate-judiciary-on-the-vawa/ Excerpts: Since women, without provocation, batter and kill children, whom they supposedly have been socialized to love, they can, without provocation, batter and kill men, whom they definitely have been socialized — by the media, feminist literature, and the Violence Against Women Act — to distrust, fear, and hate. If feminists don’t take women’s violence and abuse as seriously as we take men’s, why should men take women’s opinions as seriously as we take men’s? After all, according to ideological feminists’ own — and correct — definition of hate crimes, an act of violence is merely an opinion acted out, a view transformed into behavior.
Rookie 25.11.12 @ 11:25 pm Nothing – absolutely NOTHING – can justify almost killing someone and showing no remorse for it. (You know what else the mainstream media isn’t showing us? The worst pictures of Rihanna’s bruises and injuries. Because yes, there are worse pictures than the ones we’ve been shown.) Brown doesn’t seem to understand that he did something wrong, and would probably do it again. You’re a disgusting excuse for a human being and you should be ashamed of your hateful, pathetic existence.