Three years ago, I saw Chris Brown go down in flames as a once smug R&B star who brutally abused his equally famous girlfriend Rihanna just before the 2009 Grammys.

“Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.” vs. "I cannot stand those girls who have this notion that they are the Carrie Bradshaw’s of the world. Those falsely fierce and drippy girls who sit over their candy-colored cocktails extolling their own rhetoric about men. They sit there, lamenting over lost loves, kvetching about chivalry being dead and whatever else they can get into their claws." "