Chrissie Hynde Under Fire For Suggesting Women Who Dress Provocatively

According to the textbook, “Human Sexuality: Diversity In Contemporary America,” the author Yarber conveys that “next to sleeping, young people spend more time engaging with the media than any other activity- average of 7 ½ hours per day, 7 days per week.” As it is, by watching TV, playing video games, texting, listening to music, and browsing Internet, people are constantly exposed to messages, images, expectations, and values that the media sent. Among many contents, sexuality is the one of things that is much shaped by culture and mass media. With the increase use of technologies, men and women learn the social context of sexuality such as “what behaviors are appropriate, with whom they are appropriate, and why they are appropriate”(6).

According to the article, “Chrissie Hynde Under Fire for Suggesting Women Who Dress Provocatively ‘Entice’ Rapists,” which was among the top news from Yahoo, Legendary rocker Chrissie Hynde mentioned that women who dress provocatively, such as short skirts with high heels, entice rapists. During the interview, she also said “If you don’t want to entice a rapist, don’t wear high heels so you can’t run from him” and that it was “all her doing” when she was sexually assaulted at age 21 by a motorcycle gang in Ohio. This article shows how Hynde conveys the wrong idea which can possibly influence young adulthood in a negative way. Her idea can make people think that it can be a women’s fault for getting raped because victims were wearing sexually-arousing clothing. If that is the case, then all women who are wearing bikini at the beach all allowed to get raped by men since they are wearing no clothes but bikini. It is pretty much same how murderer is saying that he killed him or her because he or she was alive or thief is saying how he stole money because he saw the money inside of someone else’s pocket. She then explained “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.” Her statement is obviously not right because people have the right to wear whatever they want. First, there is ambiguity in the word “modestly” because everyone has a different point of view. Someone can say that the skirt is too short when others can say it looks all right. Second, even if the skirt was too short in fact, that does not mean someone can come to woman and touch her. There is no way somebody can touch another without his or her permission. Thus, Sexual violence is such a big crime and cannot be justified no matter what. She later clarified saying that she was not defending rape after her comments were criticized by