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Calm down, everyone: Miley's just following the script

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I can't believe this even made the news this week. I don't get it. Have we become so puritanical that we can't accept a semi-nude (look! No boobies showing!) photo taken by a fantastic photographer? I mean, look at the expression on her face, the way Leibovitz had her posed... sure she's topless, but she's keeping herself hidden. And I think if you want to read into the photo as a piece of art work, you might find there's a lot more to think about here than, for instance, Britney on her back on the cover of Rolling Stone.
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15 responses // Calm down, everyone: Miley's just following the script

  • What's with the hue and cry over this picture?

    Important facts, her parents approved it, she approved it and she's covered.

    People need to think before they ignorantly react to a insignificant issue like this and stay mum when innocent children are being raped, sold into slavery, dying of AIDS and starvation.
    aditijjoshi
  • Here are some relevant questions to consider:

    Would you like it if your girlfriend appeared in Vanity Fair like this?

    What about your 15 year old daughter or neice or granddaughter?

    I have a 14 year old neice and I'm sure I wouldn't want her in a spread like that and I can safely say my brother wouldn't either!

    You know, I really wish we could put a lid on this "sexed up" world of ours because pushing it on these kids at a younger and younger age etc. harms them and us and all humanity to a terrible degree.

    If we would respect our bodies and each other more this would be a better world to live in.

    PatrickEdwardMurray
  • I dont see what the huge deal is about this picture either. At least she's not half naked in a club, drunk, shaving her head and getting pregnant.
    Ice_cream_Man
  • Being of "middle aged" status I will probably be taken for having a more conservative view on this but I feel I must say something.....I think we as adults have treated our young people too much LIKE adults, in the since that what we feel, our kids should feel. What fails to get addressed is that we rush our kids to be so much like us that when they do, we get jaded to the fact that they are kids. Why rush them to be so grown up? Trust me...they will be soon enough! I cant help but feel that a sweet young girl named Jon Bonet was also "rushed" to look grown-up
    tmaster
  • I think she looks like an angel.
    Susieee
  • Ice_cream_man, to an extent I agree with you. No she isn't pregnant, shaving her head, doing drugs or clubbing around, but really should that be the yardstick with which we measure?

    She is FIFTEEN! Tmaster is right, she is a kid. Maybe I'm just getting old, but srsly there is no need for that photograph. She took many more beautiful photographs that this one just seemed out of place and unnecessary.

    She's still young, and her career is not in any danger, so I don't get why they felt the need to wrap her up in silk bedsheets, and give her that "Hey pervert, I am under age and just rolled out of bed" look... in a magazine like Vanity Fair? Really, someone explain it to me...
    addicted2tv
  • this picture isnt the worst but it isnt this the best either. i think the main problem with the photo is she's a Disney star. Shes suppose to be humble and clean. Not sexy and courious. Would you want your child to pose like this?
    muckraker
  • http://current.com/items/88933181_miley_cyrus_thanks_fa...
    Image...
    i think her true fans are over it.
    muckraker
  • Right tmaster,

    And I have to wonder...why is it that we have this incessant "need" to push our actors to "bare it all" as they come of age...

    Oh yeah, I understand, but as you reach middle age and older you actually think differently a bit too...

    Actually, I think we make these folks lose their modestly too terribly easy!
    PatrickEdwardMurray
  • I also wonder why this is such a big deal. It's tasteful, not slutty, so why does it make a difference? Would we make such a big deal if someone went out and DREW a fully nude woman? Is it such a big deal because she's only 15 years old? Just think, only 200 years ago she would've been married and had children! WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL? As a society in the US we need to understand the difference between nude pornography and a tasteful, beautiful photograph.
    x_darkly_charming_x
  • I love Miley. I think the media helped create the Britney Spears we know today. There are millions of women with issues like hers that don't have to deal with the added pressure of trying to shake off the paparazzi. Wouldn't they love to drive this Ms. Miley just as mad. Don't let them get you too!
    Neghie
  • I completely agree with you, PatrickEdwardMurray. We are definitely living in an oversexed world. I'm 25, and I feel this way.

    To x_darkly_charming_x who said, "Just think, only 200 years ago she would've been married and had children!"
    Really, this is an argument to justify this? I thought society is supposed to be "advancing." So something that happened 200 years ago justifies something that happens today? Would you wanna be married with kids at 15?
    preetalina
  • I personally don't give a crap. I'm over the drama and I wish it would just die. My kid sis (who's 7 going on 8) loves her to death and even she's over it. Of course with our oversexed culture she's grown jaded to this kind of drama.
    tuesdaylove
  • http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSGOR052483200...
    re: preetalina
    The fact that she would have been married 200 years ago does not directly apply here; however, the semi-scandal that has been created around this picture is a sign of devolution rather than evolution of culture.

    All that she is showing in the picture is her bare back. Since when has that ever been considered nudity?

    The Vanessa Hudgens scandal was more legitimate (in terms of nudity) but she was 18 at the time, so it didn't really matter
    neokn

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