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Rihanna Speaks; Angie Shops Stella For Gap
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Anyways, there shouldn't be a Marmaduke movie. Period. It's the worst comic of all time! #rihannaglamourmagazine
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I'm so tired of cartoons being voiced by non-voice actors using their regular speaking voices. #rihannaglamourmagazine
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I kind of like that she hasn't decided to take the super-strong-woman advocate role in all of this. At least not yet.
She's been very honest about the complexities of these situations and the way you really feel while inside them... most women are not going to be able to immediately disown someone they loved. They're not going to be able to get their thoughts straight about the situation, or just know their strength and claim their worth right away. It's all very gray, and when it finally comes to the point where it has to stop, it's probably been going on so long that you've started to believe what your abuser has told you - that it's at least party your fault, that you need him, that it's really not that bad, that you're weak, that you're making a fuss over nothing. Having to step forward and end it is embarassing, almost like being offended at a joke that everyone else in the room thought was funny, and you just must not get it. It takes a while before you're ready to say, "No, I know that I'm right. This is not ok, and nothing you say will make it ok."
I didn't like her new single, Russian Roulette, at first. But then I realized that it didn't excuse anyone, it just communicated how it really feels in that moment without any of the romanticism and simplicity that hindsight brings. It's a painfully honest description of what it's actually like, before the triumphant recovery and the empowerment anthem. It's disturbing and upsetting, but that's what domestic violence is, and we shouldn't skip over that.
I wish that her photo hadn't been leaked. It was an invasion of her rights. But would as many people have been as outraged as they were if we hadn't seen it? I really don't know, but my guess is no. We don't want to see how deeply ugly it is, but because we never do, we don't ever take it seriously... we continue to have unrealistically high expectations of women, thinking they should be able to just deal with it, when we don't even know what it is unless we've been through it ourselves.
But unless we know what it is, more and more of us will inevitably have to go through it ourselves. Denial feeds this problem more than anything else. #rihannaglamourmagazine
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I believe he went into the doctor and got reverse hormones so it went away, but I prefer to imagine him going in and being met with a giant syringe. #rihannaglamourmagazine
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And it's definitely not confined to girls. I had an ex-boyfriend who'd turn on the waterworks anytime we got in a fight, and then OF COURSE I'd start apologizing, cause I don't deal well with tears, and then before I knew it, I was kowtowing to his stupid-ass emotionally abusive demands. So, shut it, Heidi. #rihannaglamourmagazine
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You don't want to get on Allen's bad side, missy. #rihannaglamourmagazine
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I saw Lily Allen perform in a really small SF club about 3 years - she wasn't even the headliner, Shiny Toy Guns was - and she is actually an amazing live performer. Great singer, played her own instruments for several songs, and had a great stage presence. even my boyfriend who hated her album at the time had to admit she was a blast live. #rihannaglamourmagazine
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