"Love the Way You Lie"

I just read an article on Yahoo News that asks the question: LINK: Why Is Rihanna Singing About Violence?

What a fascinating point. I largely ignore popular music, but this issue is so glaringly obvious. After being a victim of domestic violence, Rihanna turns around and glorifies it in a collaboration with Eminem, stating in one of the first lines of the song "It's alright because I like the way it hurts." What a dangerous message to Rihanna's followers and any woman who hears the song.

Their normalization and rationalization of domestic violence is so disturbingly accepted. This song plays everywhere. Clubs, parties, groceries stores, even the car waiting for the light to change blasts this song.

 The video starring Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan is even more charged than Eminem's lyric "I'mma tie her to the bed/and set the house on fire." It shows beautiful celebrities, idolized celebrities with international fandom fighting, scratching, kicking, throwing each other into walls and nearly punching each other.

Now, normally after an episode of television that deals with a sensitive issue, like suicide, eating disorders, or domestic violence, there is a screen at the end with information on how one dealing with those issues can seek help. Instead, this video that glorifies violence only offers the options to "Like," "Share," or "Replay."