I read an article about a chef in Watkinsville, Georgia by the name of Richard Miley. Chef Richard does a celebrity sandwich of the week each week at his restaurant and in recent weeks he decided to make a fun of a not so funny situation. He took aim at well known pop singers Rihanna & Chris Brown with his "Black & Bleu" burger, making fun of their well known domestic dispute. His advertisement on Facebook said “Chris Brown won’t beat you up for eating this unless your name starts with a R and ends with A.” I believe this is an example of why domestic violence against women is at such a high rate in our country. Instead of taking this matter serious we use it as a way to promote food and bring attention to our businesses. According to our power point presentation one of the main reasons abused women go back to their abuser is because domestic violence is seen as normal. I think this is a perfect example of such a case. When interviewed by abcnews.com Chef Richard told them “I do not regret doing it. I don’t regret anything.” He was completely unfazed and thought he did nothing wrong. Here we have a singer who is a role model to millions of teenage girls across the world being abused and promotional jokes are being made of it. We learned 1 in 5 high school girls report domestic violence being committed by a dating partner. I can only imagine that if young kids view this situation and think it is okay this stat will continue to increase. This also shows a form of sexist behaivor on this male chef's part. He recently made a Whitney Houston & a Paula Dean burger making fun of Whitney's drug addiction and Paula's diabetes diagnosis. I believe if this was a women making fun of popular men in our country and their struggles this would be viewed as a complete outrage. This may just be a joke about a burger to some but to me this is the number of domestic violence incidents rising due to desensitization.
Ng, Christina. "‘Black and Bleu’ Chris Brown, Rihanna Sandwich Chef Has No Regrets." ABC News. ABC News Network, 26 Mar. 2012. Web. 02 Apr. 2012. <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/03/black-and-bleu-chris-brown-rihanna-sandwich-chef-has-no-regrets/>.
That’s very interesting to learn this about this Chef Richard guy. I would like to know how much money he is making off his burgers that he is placing under these names? I’m going to go with the thought that he is probably making a lot of money because just as i was stating in my blog is that violence sales in our society today sex and power are the two top things that are advertise to sale products and it works. Who would have ever thought that we would look at some one getting abused or having an addiction would help sale a chef burger its crazy what the world has come to.
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