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Chrissie Hynde believes women who wear heels and “provocative clothing” kinda had it coming:
“If I’m walking around and I’m very modestly dressed and I’m keeping to myself and someone attacks me, then I’d say that’s his fault,” she told the Sunday Times. “But if I’m being very lairy and putting it about and being provocative, then you are enticing someone who’s already unhinged – don’t do that. Come on! That’s common sense.”
Rachel Moran in The New York Times:
“I cringe when I hear the words ‘sex work.’ Selling my body wasn’t a livelihood. There was no resemblance to ordinary employment in the ritual degradation of strangers’ using my body to satiate their urges…
…I believe Amnesty is making a historic mistake.”
Men who join fraternities are three times more likely to rape.
Ashley Madison was developing a “What’s Your Wife Worth” app. No misogyny here though, folks.