“Love” Hurts Gossip Girls — and Real Women 

My favorite part:

"[T]he executive producer explaining that the cut on Blair’s cheek is just a little scratch symbolizing the intensity of Chuck’s love sounds eerily like the kind of justification an abuser might offer, comforting a victim by explaining that he (or she) tossed that punch because love can be so overwhelming that it hurts sometimes."

I've been thinking that too.