“I don’t think sexual assault is a gender issue as such. I think it’s very much all around us now. It’s provoked by this pornography culture, it’s provoked by pop stars who call themselves feminists. Maybe they’re feminists on behalf of prostitutes – but they are no feminists on behalf of music, if they are selling their music by bumping and grinding and wearing their underwear in videos. That’s a kind of feminism – but, you know, you’re a sex worker is what you are.”
“At the moment, we’re in one of the worst humanitarian crises in our lifetime You see that picture of a Turkish policeman carrying the body of a 3-year-old boy who got washed up on the shore. These are the heartbreaking images we have and we’re talking about millions of displaced persons and people whose families have been destroyed and we’re talking about comments that I allegedly made about girls in their underwear.”
The first quote was from an interview with BBC 6, the latter from from an interview with Washington Post, and I stole them off a post in Gigwise.
Here is the problem: it is like when your Mom used to tell you to eat all your veggies because here were children starving in Ethiopia, or why are you crying because some boy didn’t call you when there are children your age with cancer? It sounds as though it makes sense,but it doesn’t.
For one thing, if Miley Cyrus is pornographic, what on earth was Prince in 1979? And for another to claim the tragedy in Syria has ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH, with discussing Chrissie’s statements regarding rape is pure asinine. If that is the case, why discussing anything? Why talk about music when a five year old child just died?