Here are two common conversations:

Girl 1 to Girl 2: He’s an asshole!

Girl 2 to Girl 1: I know, but he lays it down…

OR

Guy 1 to Guy 2: She’s annoying as fuck!!!

Guy 2 to Guy 1: She handles her business though dog…

Obviously there are varying degrees of being a jerk or an annoyance, but in both cases most people will tolerate either of these unsatisfactory qualities at times for a good piece of sex.

Back in February, Chris Brown and Rihanna’s violent incident the night before the Grammy’s  revealed some interesting paradigms about the culture of relationships. A girl from a third world country and a dude from rural Virginia fall in love and their ghetto passion drives them into an ugly, unhealthy circumstance that they both seem to want to tolerate. Is it the sex or the fact that violence might be normal for them? Maybe both.

C. Brown admitted in a previous interview that his mom was abused by her ex-husband, Chris’ stepfather, so when a woman pushes him too far he gives her a two-piece and a biscuit. Rihanna’s team’s reaction to the incident, instead of telling the public the truth, was to try and figure out how to tell everyone that she was in a car accident. That didn’t work. (more…)