Topic: domestic abuse

Do you remember how, at this year’s ceremony, some Grammys producer begrudgingly alluded to The Thing Which Shall Not Be Named (Chris Brown savagely beating Rihanna exactly three years before) by calling it an “unfortunate incident”? We were astonished that any mouthpiece for a mainstream institution like the Grammys could be so oblivious and callous–just kidding, we weren’t remotely astonished. Nor are we ever astonished when cowardly publications refer to Chris Brown as a “controversial figure” as opposed to, say, an “violent, unrepentant abuser.”

Well, this week Rolling Stone did everyone better. More »