Well, that's one way to promote a memoir.
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Pretenders singer and songwriter Chrissie Hynde has no regrets. At least about her much-attacked comments on rape in an interview published last weekend.
“They’re entitled to say whatever they want,” she told The Washington Post on Thursday about her critics. It was her first phone interview since the furor. “Do I regret saying it? I don’t know. I haven’t really thought about it.”
Hynde, 63, whose memoir “Reckless: My Life as a Pretender” arrives in bookstores Tuesday, said she doesn’t read things written about her.
“I’ve just had some e-mails from friends saying, ‘Do you want to hide at my place?’ ” she said.
After a little resistance, Hynde, who released her first Pretenders album in 1980, listened as the Sunday Times paragraph that sparked the controversy was read to her, a statement that ends with her saying, “If you don’t want to entice a rapist, don’t wear high heels so you can’t run from him.”
“Sounds like common sense,” she said Thursday.
But what about people who were offended?
“If you don’t want my opinion, don’t ask me for it,” she said.
Probably irresponsible to disseminate what may be a valid coping mechanism for her, but I gotta hand it to her for doubling down.
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Molly Lambert wrote:
The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.
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