Reminder: when white men have meltdowns & a history of abusing women, it's just funny.

[doe_witch]

The Disposable WomanBy ANNA HOLMES

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[sakura_no_miko]

Craig Ferguson, I thought, had an interesting point to make about the media spectacle around Charlie Sheen. NPR agrees.

[evil_laugher]

I think it was also Craig Ferguson who made note that Charlie Sheen was only fired after he insulted the producer, not when he beat and threatened women.

[vanillakokakola]

is this his comment likening this to paying to watch people at ye olde asylum? because i COMPLETELY agree. it's sad that in hundreds of years, we haven't truly moved past ridiculing the mentally ill as a society

[sakura_no_miko]

Yeah, that's the clip.
He did a really good monologue a few years back where he talked about how he came to realize that his humor had the potential to hurt people, and refused to mock Britney Spears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA

[bluetooth16]

LOL at this entry being right below my Batshit Charlie themed Shenanigans Friday!

Anyway, I think he should be in jail now for domestic abuse.

[evewithanapple]

The only thing I disagree with here is the comparison to Chris Brown- Brown did feel backlash, but he also had his fair share of defenders, and his career's already bounced back- with a grossly misogynistic song, no less. I understand the point being made, but Brown's still gotten away with his music career.

[lemonsherry]

yea, which is why I always cringe when these discussions always bring up him as a sort of bulletproof comparison, i.e. "look what chris brown had to suffer through because of his blackness!". his career is relatively the same as it was before-- he was never at the forefront of the mainstream industry, he was never a go-to young pop artist for white audiences. and so him abusing rihanna did not significantly lose him anything other than maybe the opportunity to be that familiar faced & voiced black guy whose silhouette gets to dance in a bubblegum commercial and perform at the VMA's.

what he was and probably would have stayed either way, is a young rnb dancer/singer/good-looking guy who was the unimpeachable baby for a mostly black audience. what he did to rihanna has not changed that one bit, and if anything it has bolstered the love for him in our community and opened her up to constant side-eyes from the very same community. go to any popular black blog and read the comments on posts about him and posts about her. its almost

[iolarah]

Good article. Thanks for linking.

[mrasaki]

There was a thread about this in ONTD, too. Pretty much, the difference between Sheen and Chris Brown is that Chris Brown is black, Sheen is white. Chris Brown beat the shit out of a v. famous, powerful woman who has a lot of star power (and powerful friends), whereas Sheen picks women who has less power than he does or are in marginalized subcategories of women that make tearing them down very easy in our misogynistic culture.

I was a bit young for the Denise Richards/Charlie Sheen thing but I do remember the backlash against her (he's so successful with the "They're all lying bitches!" attack, over and over) and that she basically dropped off the celebrity radar after that.

I wish people would stop with the LOL CHARLIE YOU'RE SO AMUSING because no, he's NOT amusing. And, to be brutally, depressingly, honest, you know his career's not going to suffer too much because of this, as long as his publicist gets ahold of him and gets him to stfu and lay low for a couple years.