Chrissie Hynde was Right About Rape. Now Feminists Want to Silence Her

Chrissie Hynde has committed the ultimate sin for a former feminist icon: she has offended the Sisterhood.

The Pretenders singer, whose sultry looks graced a million teenagers’ bedroom walls in the 1980s, has perpetrated the terrible crime of speaking her mind about rape and sexual assualt.

For that she must now pay the price and be cast out of the Sisterhood.

The exact details of her transgression have been angrily spelt out by professional feministas who lined up to attack Miss Hynde for daring to talk about her own personal experience of sexual violence. SJWs Always Lie: Takin... Day, Vox Buy New $5.99 (as of 01:45 UTC - Details)

So what did the 63-year-old say that was so wrong?

Miss Hynde said that she took “full responsibility” for being sexually assaulted by an Ohio biker gang when she was 21, while she was drunk, high on drugs and had chosen to get on the back of a gang member’s motorcycle.

She then compounded her sin by saying that women who dress provocatively while walking down the street while drunk were also to blame if they were attacked. “If I’m walking around in my underwear and I’m drunk? Who else’s fault can it be?” she said. “You know if you don’t want to entice a rapist, don’t wear high heels so you can’t run from him.” Suicide Pact: The Radi... Napolitano, Andrew P. Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $2.84 (as of 04:15 UTC - Details)

Cue outraged squeals of “You can’t say that!” from the Sisterhood. Because, according to feminist orthodoxy, women are not allowed to say what they think. In this brave new world, all women are embraced and championed, but only as long as they say The Right Thing.

Miss Hynde, once seen as a strong feminist role model, had unwittingly breached the first rule of the Sisterhood club: if you want to belong, then you have to conform.

There is no room for debate, nuanced argument or even personal opinion in the Sisterhood orthodoxy. You’re either a Sister and agree that women take no responsibility for anything that happens to them or their bodies whatever the circumstances, or you are a “rape apologist”. It’s one or the other.

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