What’s Current: BET Awards features ‘hilarious’ domestic violence joke

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Brenda Myers-Powell - Photograph: Joe C. Moreno
Brenda Myers-Powell – Photograph: Joe C. Moreno

Brenda Myers-Powell bravely gives an account of the horrors she faced during her 25 years as a prostitute:

And the johns – the clients – are violent. I’ve been shot five times, stabbed 13 times. I don’t know why those men attacked me, all I know is that society made it comfortable for them to do so.

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BET Awards sit Floyd Mayweather (serial woman beater) next to Rihanna (victim of intimate partner violence) for a hilaaarious joke about domestic violence.

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and erstwhile academic in Philosophy. Follow her @Blasfemmey. Got tips? Email us.

Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.