Everyone has flaws. I don’t really like people who pretend that they don’t.

I’m not in the habit of making the female singers I admire measure up to some kind of hardship yardstick. Still, without having read the book (although I’m going to buy it now, probably tomorrow) I’m pretty sure Hynde buried a few friends and had some shit happen to her as well. Was some of it more self-inflicted? Was…

And I can’t even walk in heels, although I used to be pretty good with platforms. We’re all different. I won’t be so shallow as to make a shoe metaphor, because we’re also not all in a Darren Star production.

“We’re all just people” is a saying I embrace... until it breaks down, right around ISIS and a few school shootings.

Perhaps “deserve” is the wrong word. You’re right. She doesn’t deserve anything from you. Or want anything. She wrote a book. It’s out there. Her publicist makes her do a tour. Because she said something contraversial about her own life experience with rape, approximately 3,000 outraged people on the internet have…

Yes, she needed to sell her victimhood in a more palatable way, so that you could understand it.

I’m pretty sure that someone who was not trying to pity her could look at her memoirs and find a strong, confident woman who took a crap situation and made it good. Is that worth sharing? Of course.

Like Hynde and honey badger. I don’t care :)

I may be unfairly associating you with the huddled masses who keep telling me I am a troll and they are blocking me in this thread. If so, forgive me.

Does ad-block work on the ovid?

As most are.

Beyond annoying. Kind of terrifying.

So... you think she’s asking for this, do you?

Call it a public flogging then. Or the stocks. Or a public stoning. Same difference.

Yeah, we have to find a way to stop those victim-blaming victims.

Oh, I’m sorry. Should I have said, “transcribing” press releases?

And if she says she’s not? If she works through her experience and makes it work for her? Would you be more sympathetic if she was living under a bridge?

I’m not trolling. At all. I’m completely disgusted that the takeaway from Chrissie Hynde saying what she thinks is a bunch of sanctimonious internet peoples bemoaning her personal experience and saying that they know better.

And she’s... you know, on a beach in Tahiti.

Whereas you, who are probably not an internationally reknowned female rock star, who has managed to be one for three decades, are... happy? Not sad? Well, that’s good. I’m sure that’s cold comfort, when you’re getting dressed in winter to get to the office for your job writing press releases.