I feel like this whole "lets hate Chris Brown" thing started years ago when it was released on the headlines that he had beaten Rihanna (which was later in fact found to be true), and ever since it has just slowly escalated. For example, a recent headline on E! News talks about Chris Brown's rant against Adrienne Bailon and Tamar Braxton, and his refusal to apologize (http://www.eonline.com/news/594618/chris-brown-won-t-apologize-for-his-rant-against-adrienne-bailon-and-tamar-braxton-karrueche-tran-weighs-in). Don's get me wrong, I don't believe in or agree with Brown's poor behavior and choices over the years, but in some cases we have to realize the circumstances that we put certain celebrities in during their years of fame.
As far as Brown beating Rihanna, I am extremely against that and believe he deserved every lick of discipline that he received, there is never an excuse to making those sort of choices, especially considering how conscious you are of those decisions. You don't just physically abuse someone without being aware of it. Branching off from that, I still do believe that we tend to trow some celebrities under the bus by exaggerating certain situations. Brown not apologizing to people for ranting at them doesn't seem to be a situation that corresponds close to being the end of the world. While the right thing probably would have been to apologize, if he feels a certain way (just like many of us do) he is going to stick with it, so why does it matter? I feel like in the heat of the press they have the mindset of "what other way to spark an audience then by bringing up another mishap Chris had with women" which I don't totally agree with.
Going along with my idea that we need to take into consideration what these celebrities have gone through, we need to realize what lifestyles they have been living in and what they sacrifice just to do what they love. It's like animals in cages, we never leave them alone, we put them on display for the whole world, whether they like it or not. In correspondence the press shows them off how they want to world to see them. I mean lets face it, we are forming opinions on people we have never even met, how do we even know if what was said was true? In reality we will never get the whole story, only the one that the press is in favor of perusing. In the end it all comes down to who we are. We all are human, we all make mistakes (some less fixable than others) but the only way we can try to mend it is by moving on. I feel like that's what we need to realize when reading certain stories about celebrities, like it or not, there's always another side to the story that we aren't hearing.
