Posted on 08/30/2015 8:35:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Pretenders lead singer claims sexual assault in the 1970s was her own ‘fault’ because of the way she was dressed
Women who walk around drunk and provocatively dressed should expect to be sexually assaulted, Chrissie Hynde, the lead singer of the Pretenders, has suggested. The former chart topper claimed in a Sunday newspaper interview that scantily clad women were likely to “entice a rapist” and that it is their “fault” if they are attacked.
She discloses in a new memoir how she was abducted and sexually assaulted by a motorcycle gang in Ohio in the early 1970s – but concludes it was “all my doing” because of the way she was dressed and the fact that she was under the influence of drugs.
She also claimed that pop stars who call themselves feminists but use their sex appeal to sell records were effectively just “prostitutes”.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
As protean courtship devices go, that's an unbeatable combination for attracting the wrong kind of courtship.
I know that combo has always caught my attention, but now I also better recognize a double-edged threat when I see one.
Not sure why, but almost all of my life's most memorable lessons are filed under: "Seemed like a good idea at the time..."
While I do not have a problem with Hynde’s comments, I can remember back some 18 years up here in Canada, the big issue feminists had up here was the right to walk in public topless. They thought that an indecency law that was struck down around that time, thereby permitting this sort of thing was a great victory. Often, feminist logic does not compute and this was a good case in point.
Nothing good happens after midnight on the streets anyhow.
They say rape is a crime of opportunity. So, walking around at 3am alone drunk almost certainly increasing one’s odd of getting assulted in any number of ways.
Chrissie Hynde? Doesn’t Facebook auto tag her recent photos as Mick Jagger?
“Provocative” dress is a matter of perspective, no? Besides, rapists will probably rape anyone they can get—be they nun or hooker. I don’t think that rapists should get off the hook for something so serious as sexual assault because they can’t deal with seeing a woman’s skin. That’s like punching someone in the face for saying something “provocative”. A person can say something stupid or offensive, but that doesn’t give you the right to pummel them into the ground because you don’t like what they said.
Respct yourself..
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If it has an orifice, there are men who will use it.
Women in burkas get raped. Goats get raped. They don’t dress for sex.
However there are some women who literally ‘ask for it’. One comes to min...Miley Cyrus.
Rush used to credit her for the song now and then and would always say, "She's the kind of woman from whom you know you would catch a social disease...but you'd do it anyway!"
Well, that depends, if you say “fighting words” to a protected minority well, your @ss is on the grass.
When women defend their right to dress like sluts but not be treated like them, I always ask them this: If you WERE trying to entice some random man to pick you up and boff you, how would you dress?
As a man, I reject that line of thinking. A rape is a crime, no matter how modestly or immodestly a woman is dressed. Also, I do not believe that rapists make any distinction with regard to how a woman is dressed.
“She’s the kind of woman from whom you know you would catch a social disease...but you’d do it anyway!”
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Rush seems to like the liberal life when he isn’t on the air.
Some years ago a study was conducted where 40% of the men asked said that if they knew for sure they could get away with it they would rape a woman. Were you in that survey by any chance?
You've never been to Montana, have you?
DUM DUM da da da da ....
No one deserves to be raped, but yeah. She’s right. Women and girls need to be modest in dress and not allow some gay fashion designer to hobble them in four inch heels.
Just curious.
I completely agree!
Let’s admit two totally separate considerations.
Pragmatism and morality.
It would be nice if everybody were a saint and had no evil inclinations. To put a lock on a door is to accuse your neighbors of being thieves. To put a lock on your bathroom door is to accuse your own family of immorality. To dress modestly is to accuse others of immorality.
To build a government structure of checks and balances between three branches of government and between states and Federal government is to accuse politicians of abuse of power.
In both personal and public life we need to recognize that both morality and pragmatism exist.
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