Chrissie Hynde: Feminism Is 'annoying'

Chrissie Hynde is ”aggravated” by feminism.

The Pretenders star thinks the fixed speak about ladies and energy has turn into ”boring” and she or he by no means got down to turn into the poster lady for girls’s rights.

She mentioned: ”The complete gender factor has aggravated the f**ok out of me currently. Everything you learn says ‘feminine’, ‘ladies’, it is ‘meh-meh-meh-meh’. It’s changing into boring. I by no means felt discriminated in opposition to in my discipline, so it is onerous for me to … I simply do not know what to say. I entrance a band – and my band are all historically guys for no different motive than I’ve auditioned for individuals however no ladies ever got here ahead, not as a result of I ever mentioned I’m on the lookout for a male bass participant. My head does not work that approach. It’s a bizarre one for me. I’m the poster lady for feminism – for women in rock, for lady guitar gamers, ladies that entrance bands. I’m it and but I haven’t got a stand on it as a result of none of it bothers me, I simply do my factor. That to me was the entire premise of the rock’n’roll ethic – simply do your factor, be your self.”

And the 68-year-old rocker thinks persons are fearful to say something these days for concern the way it may get twisted by another person.

She informed The Sunday Times journal: ”People who aren’t outspoken, however are articulate and have good issues to say, they are saying, ‘Don’t say something.’ I’ve heard that from everybody I’ve met on this enterprise. I’ve seen [this actor] in passing … the dialog at all times goes again to, ‘Best to not say something any extra.’ Because it is not value it. Let’s say, for instance, you are doing a movie and you need to advertise – so that you exit and also you say one thing that is taken the incorrect approach. ‘Oh, I believe Woody Allen’s made some nice movies’ – one thing harmless like that. You may sabotage the entire undertaking for all the movie. So individuals really feel that they simply higher do not say something. I’m not saying I really feel like that. I’ve at all times mentioned what I needed. I’ve by no means courted controversy, I’m not attention-grabbing. I do not search headlines. I’ve at all times tried to maintain a really low profile till I’ve to return again out and do my factor.”