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A statement on the abuse of the rock band The Pretenders frontman Chrissie Hynde has aroused strong reactions in social media this weekend.
A statement on the abuse of the rock band The Pretenders frontman Chrissie Hynde has aroused strong reactions in social media this weekend.
In an interview in The Sunday Times says 63-year-old Hynde how she was young was sexually abused by a member of a motorcycle gang. And that, says Hynde, was partly her own fault.
– Whichever way you look at it was the one who did this and it was my responsibility. (…) Motorcycle gangs do so here. One can not paint themselves into a corner and then ask themselves whose brush was. It was I who was naive, she says.
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On the question of whether the motorcycle gang exploited her vulnerability respond Hynde: “It is no secret that whoever plays with fire gets burnt,” and continues:
– If I walk around drunk in my underwear, whose fault is it then if not mine?
The interview has stirred up criticism storm online and condemned even by the British organization Victim Support, which supports victims .
– Victims of sexual violence should never feel, or be made to feel that they are responsible for these heinous crimes, said the organization’s president, Lucy Hastings to The Guardian.
I agree with Chrissie Hynde on her statements about rape. Not all rape situations/scenarios are the same and not every person is the same. No one 'especially someone who hasn't been raped', can speak for a rape survivor on how they handled and felt about what happened. The only ones that should have anyone speak for them is young children, mentally challenged or even animals. Yes the rapist is always wrong, but in many rape situations the victim can't deny their own mistakes. As for those women protesters who parade their bodies while saying they can wear whatever and be however they want, well they are just putting themselves out as prey for the rape-minded men, And they can't speak for other women who do take extra precautions to avoid bad situations and who aren't about showing it off.
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