 Rihanna responded to the PTC 's criticism on Twitter , and said that parents should not expect her to parent their children and that " <unk> subject matters " should not be hidden from children otherwise they will not learn how to adapt in society , and that it <unk> <unk> even more because children are embarrassed to talk about rape . The singer continued to state that " the industry isn 't ' <unk> 's ' R Us ' " and that singers " have the freedom to create art " . In an interview for BET , Rihanna further explain why rape was used as the vehicle to push the story forward in the video despite the lyrics not mentioning rape , saying " Making that into a mini @-@ movie or video , we needed to go back to why it happened . <unk> she 's not a cold @-@ <unk> killer . It had to be something so offensive . And we decided to hone in on a very serious matter that people are afraid to address , especially if you 've been <unk> in this scenario . " Rihanna added that the character is <unk> for her actions . 
