Visit Bonbon Break today for my thoughts on this Mylie Cyrus debacle.
If you were an alien visiting the Earth and found yourself in a Western country this past week, you’d have learnt the following things about the People Of Earth:
ONE: Miley Cyrus is Very Important and has magic powers. With a few shakes of her rear (accompanied by an unnaturally long extension of her tongue), this young earthling can make poverty, murder and impending war d i s a p p e a r. Yep – anyone who witnessed Twerkgate was privy to the instantaneous vanishing of the murdered Syrian children, threats of WWIII and… well… anything of actual importance from world news. Poof!
TWO: Twerking is horrible and slutty. HOWEVER, women should be allowed to twerk to their hearts’ content because we own our bodies, so quit judging and back-off. ALTHOUGH, even though we shouldn’t Judge Miley (poor, poor, poor Miley, naive and expressing her rights) she really did behave like the sluttiest slutty slut from Sluttsville and she has scarred all of Earth’s children so shame on her. BUT, it wasn’t her fault, because she is just a kid being mismanaged. CONVERSELY, she is a grown-up twenty-year-old and is completely responsible, so bad bad bad Miley. BUT, she wasn’t alone – what about that old, married guy singing debasing lyrics and gyrating against BadSluttyMiley? REGARDLESS, blame Miley anyway and ignore his part in the act because different rules apply to him – taking us to alien observation #3.
THREE: The Human Male is allowed to freely debase himself and others in the media. The word ‘slut’ does not stick to him.
FOUR: Human beings are stupid.
Today, I’m over at Bonbon Break with my thoughts on how we should be talking to our kids about what they see in the media. Click here to pop on over, read and add your own comments (I love comments).
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Yes! I’m done with Miley. Although I did hear she hijacked the performance and took Robin Thicke off guard with all her gyrating. He’s pissed. I don’t think he’s off the hook. He’s been getting as much criticism. But he wasn’t the one with a foam finger and the tongue you mentioned! Ha! I love your take on this! Can’t wait for you to see my post tomorrow. It has a little shout-out to you!
Ooooh, can’t wait! If Miley hijacked the performance, then does that make her the sluttiest mother of all slutty sluts from Sluttsville? Sheesh…I miss Hannah Montana.
I was SO revolted when I watched Miley’s performance with Robin Thicke at the VMAs. I didn’t know who to be more disappointed in. Her, for choosing to be SO disgustingly nasty, or him, for going along with it. Robin is, after all, 16 years her senior (I checked Wikipedia:) Too be honest, the song got my attention. The video I could do without. But now, whenever I hear the song Blurred Lines, the only visual I get is Miley’s disgustingly white, not unlike Gene Simmons, tongue. Even his was pink. (I thought tongues were typically supposed to be pink. In our family, we brush ours.) No matter how hard I squeeze my eyes shut, the image will NOT go away. I’m sorry I had to witness it but SO thankful that my impressionable 7 yo daughter missed it. Too bad for Jada & Will Smith’s kids who were there & will probably be scarred for life. The photo of them seeing that horrible display of vulgarity, with faces grimacing, says it all. Dear, sweet little Hannah Montana has flown the coop & note to parents, if you missed the VMA’s, don’t allow your little ones to look her way now. You will regret it. Not to say we can keep our children protected from all of the negative influences in the world (many from our own country), but we can do our best. And, when that doesn’t work, we really need to be there for our kids, to set a good example of how to be respectable members of society because, no matter how much they don’t want to admit it, as time goes by, we do have tendencies to use our parents as primary role models.
As usual a great article!