Chrissie Hynde Slammed For Saying That Rape Victims Should Take Blame

Rocker Chrissie Hynde set fire to the Net in a new way---with some salacious comments. She had an interesting suggestion to solve rape. She said that "a woman should take responsibility for her own rape if she was dressed provocatively or drunk," according to The Guardian.

In an interview, the 63-year-old Pretenders front woman said to U.K.'s Sunday Times that she blamed herself for her own rape when she was 21 years old. She recanted her attack after a motorcycle gang in Ohio threatened her "to perform sexual acts."

"Technically speaking, however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I take full responsibility," Hynde told the Sunday Times. "You can't paint yourself into a corner and then say whose brush is this? You have to take responsibility. I mean, I was naive."

Women who are provocative in their dress should blame themselves, she said.

"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 said. "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 just common sense."

However, Chrissie got her share of lambasting for being so provocative in her suggestions.

Lucy Hastings, director of the U.K. charity Victim Support, said: "Victims of sexual violence should never feel or be made to feel that they were responsible for the appalling crime they suffered - regardless of circumstances or factors which may have made them particularly vulnerable," Hastings said.

"They should not blame themselves or be blamed for failing to prevent an attack - often they will have been targeted by predatory offenders who are responsible for their actions.

"It is critical that nothing deters victims of sexual violence from coming forward to the police or to independent organisations so they can get the help and support they need."

The interview was just before the September 8 release of her memoir "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender," according to hngn.