Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has raised eyebrows by saying that his wife’s younger age was an “advantage” when they first started dating because she “hadn’t been wounded” by past relationships.

Corgan, who met his wife Chloé Mendel when she was 19 and he was 44 , revealed in a new interview that he struggled to connect with women of his own generation because a lot of them were “broken” and he was also “broken.”

“I don’t want to make all the feminists mad,” Corgan, now 59, told The New York Times’ Popcast . “I think a lot of women born in the ‘90s [like Mendel], given the societal changes, given the correct and proper rise of feminism as a way to balance properly a lot of things.”

He continued, “But because so many women of our generation were going through that without a lot of help and coming out of a lot of abuse, it was harder to put those pieces together if you’re broken and they’re broken.”

He said it was a case of “two wrongs don’t make a right.”

Billy Corgan has said his wife’s…