Chrissie Hynde has been in the news a lot lately for all the wrong reasons, recently making controversial comments in interviews about who is to blame for sexual assaults, and now she's adding to that.
Chrissie Hynde / Credit: FAMOUS
A couple of weeks back, Hynde talked about an incident when she was 21 where she accepting a drive home with a biker who then assaulted her at an abandoned house. She said that she now feels the blame was her own for not knowing better.
She then went on to criticize women who wear provocative clothing, implying that wearing such outfits invite attacks - these comments brought out criticism from a number of outlets and women's groups.
Hynde this week (Sept 8) appeared on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4, continuing to defend her views and said: "I don't think sexual assault is a gender issue as such. I think it's very much all around us now."
Pointing the finger at pop stars of today, she went on: "It's provoked by this pornography culture, it's provoked by pop stars who call themselves feminists. Maybe they're feminists on behalf of prostitutes, but they are no feminists on behalf of music, if they are selling their music by bumping and grinding and wearing their underwear in videos. That's a kind of feminism, but you know, you're a sex worker is what you are."
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