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This is pretty abhorrent…
After being the spotlight of some immense criticism around the obvious evidence and his own guilty plea that he had beaten his then girlfriend, pop singer Rihanna, in 2009, Chris Brown responds by tattooing an image of a bruised and beaten woman on his neck.
The issue was brought back to the public light when Brown was asked to perform at the 2011 Grammy awards and was himself awarded several Grammys.
Now, he’s topped himself with this gruesome and highly public tattoo, essentially bragging about his conquests and control over women. This article does a good job analyzing this gesture from a sociological standpoint.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/13/gender-power-and-chris-browns-battered-woman-tattoo/