Gene Simmons keeps opening his mouth and making headlines. The Kiss frontman recently published a "self-help book" titled Me, Inc.: Build an Army of One, Unleash Your Inner Rock God, Win in Life and Business. During a book signing, Fox News decided to interview Simmons, and the results were predictably asinine, via Rolling Stone. Asked about a section in his book in which he explores the career-woman conundrum, Simmons elaborated, "... women should assume men will abandon them and thus devote their early lives to making money to support themselves."
He then dug a bit deeper: "This is a very complex and difficult question to answer, so I'm going to put it as simply as possible. Women: Stop depending on men. It's as simple as that. Imagine there are no men in life. Find out that thing that you're good for that makes the money and then get married and/or have children from a position of strength."
Of course, this is not nearly as controversial as his thoughts on depression and suicide. It is probably more on par with the whole "rock is dead" thing and his support of embattled former NBA owner Donald Sterling.
As reported earlier, Simmons's long autumn of quotes picked up serious steam in September when he was asked about his relationship with former Kiss bandmates.
"No, I don't get along with anybody who's a drug addict and has a dark cloud over their head and sees themselves as a victim," he said. "Drug addicts and alcoholics are always, 'The world is a harsh place.' My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. I don't want to hear f--k all about the world as a harsh place."
The "Detroit Rock City" singer continued: "She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life. And for a putz 20-year-old kid to say, 'I'm depressed, I live in Seattle,' f--k you, then kill yourself."
To keep the momentum going, he added: "I never understand, because I always call them on their bluff. I'm the guy who says 'Jump!' when there's a guy on top of a building who says, 'That's it, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to jump.'"
Many people were obviously upset with Simmons's comments, but Nikki Sixx was especially perturbed.
"Gene is basically saying he has no sympathy for drug addicts or people who are depressed," Sixx said on his radio program. "I'm a recovering drug addict. If I had done what Gene Simmons said, and that is to jump, so many wonderful things would not have happened in my life."
