Women should dress modestly or expect to ‘entice a rapist’ – claims singer Chrissie Hynde

UK telegraph ^ | 8/30/15 | John Bingham

[SoFloFreeper]

Chrissie Hynde, for those who don't know, leads the band "The Pretenders". Her song "My City was Gone" is the theme for Rush Limbaugh's radio show.

Amazing how age sometimes brings wisdom, eh?

[gattaca]

Better late than never. Loved their 80’s music.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Lots more info about how Rush selected the song at Origins of the EIB Theme Song.

[jdege]

There’s a fundamental distinct, in my mind, between actions that are unwise and actions that are criminal.

Getting drunk and dressing provocatively may be unwise, but it is not criminal.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well it may be unwise to walk around scantily clad and drunk. I’d go as far to say that its unwise to walk around modestly clad and drunk. But its not kidnapping and felony sexual assault. Now that’s a crime. The people at fault in Chrissie’s abduction and rape are the perps.

[rabidralph]

One of the best songs of the era: Brass in Pocket.

[Snickering Hound]

In Londonistan? Yep.

[paintriot]

I always thought she looked too much like Alice Cooper to be attractive.

[Reddy]

I don’t think the author was equating the two.

One is unwise. One is criminal.

She wasn’t a criminal through her actions, the perpetrators were.

I’m glad when women stand up and admit that dressing provocatively and losing control of themselves through overuse of alcohol, or drug use, is unwise.

Feminazi howling will begin in 3, 2, 1......

[hemogoblin]

After poor Hannah Graham was abducted last year in Charlottesville, Va., and later found dead, this was something everyone seemed afraid to say.

She was staggering drunk, lost, alone, and dressed like a hooker in a pretty busy university town at 3 a.m. She could not have been doing more to attract assault and death if she had been actively trying.

But of course I'm just a paternalistic sexist.

[Rummyfan]

Always liked Chrissie's music and some of her past statements led me to believe she was a bit of a libertarian. But this... I don't know what to think.Watching the Clothes Go Round is one of my favorites.

[txhurl]

Stevie Nicks learned this lesson the hard way, too.

[driftless2]

That’s Bruce Jenner baby!

[gattaca]

“Middle of the Road” always gets my heart pumping.

[Rummyfan]

Old story about Chrissie’s is that when she told the other members of The Pretenders that she was pregnant they were shocked. They didn’t know she was a woman!

[rabidralph]

Above all, I think the helplessness brought on by alcohol and/or drugs does more to put women and men in danger than people care to admit. Police and criminals say that crimes of opportunity occur when the potential victim is not paying attention to her surroundings.

[Tax-chick]

Most of the women I see dressed immodestly just look ugly and slovenly to me. Of course, there’s no accounting for men ... maybe short-shorts and a ripped tank top on a 250 lb. tattooed female is just the ticket.

[Georgia Girl 2]

The only lesson to be learned is that its a class one felony to rape a woman no matter what she is or is not wearing. Nobody deserves to get abducted and raped.

It might be unwise for a plump city boy to be walking around lookin purty in the woods near Tallulah Gorge, GA too but if he gets raped its still the fault of the toothless perps. :-)

[JoeProBono]

[Hostage]

Yes, it is amazing but not so surprising. So many others finally grew up as well; Bob Dylan, John Lennon (was finally coming around), Eric Clapton, The Beach Boys, Johnny Ramone, Alice Cooper, Prince, Gloria Estefan, Gene Simmons, Meat Loaf, Dave Mustaine, Michale Graves, Neil Peart, Steve Tyler, Joe Perry, and on and on and on ......