Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Let's talk about Miley Cyrus

I have little but disdain for Miley Cyrus and every other manufactured child star that has the Disney logo branded into her ass.

But as 15 year old girl whose entire existence is manufactured into pop culture commodification, she can't be anything but a product of our pop culture, accepting everything it tells her. And the number 1 thing it tells you is to be sexy, and if possible, to embody sex. Especially if you're a sign of wholesome American girls, and especially if Disney made you. (Don't forget: Disney also brought you Britney Spears).

And for fuck's sake, she's 15! 15-year-old girls are unstable, searching for an identity, and, literally, dying to fit in. This means blow jobs, sex, drinking, hard drugs, starvation, and self-inflicted wounds. And this means looking like a babyprostitute.

How dare the media condemn Miley Cyrus for being who they tell her and every other female from prepubescent girls onwards to be?

I know its patriarchy and I know its pop culture and I know its the pornification of all things remotely recognizably female, but I still can't contain my fury. It's just so unfair.

Oh, and Annie Liebowitz, for seeing a 15 year old as someone who it is appropriate to lead into being photographed with I've-been-having-sex-for-3-hours hair and a satin sheet, there's something wrong with how you look at young girls.
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