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Sunday, November 29, 2009
User post: Should We Leave Miley Alone Already?
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Actress Miley Cyrus, 16, is in trouble again for posing in
seductive photos with the director of her latest film.
The
pictures show Cyrus sidling up to director Adam Shankman, 44,
and straddling a chair while pouting. Shankman--who, before anyone
alleges anything about an inappropriate relationship between him
and Cyrus, is openly gay
--posted the pics to his Twitter account.
Before this, Cyrus was blasted for
posing topless inVanity
Fair, being photographed in her
underwear and making a "slant-eye" face that
seemed
to be mocking Asians.
When you're a celebrity, child or adult, you are accountable
for your actions because you’re in the public eye. But I can't
help but think we've decided to make Cyrus our scapegoat. There
are plenty of other young celebrities out there doing truly
terrible things. Is shooting a few scandalous snapshots every now
and again that bad in comparison?
I'm also fascinated by how we judge these young celebrities
depending on who is sexualizing them. Remember when Britney Spears
made her debut at age 17 in a sexy
schoolgirl outfit? Back then, we seemed to blame the people
managing her for turning her into a junior sex symbol.
But now we have another teenage starlet taking control of her
own sexuality, and we have a problem with it. I don't know
about you, but I'd rather see Miley posing for these pictures
because she wants to and because
she's exploring her sexuality than because someone else is
making her to increase her popularity.
Related: sexuality, scandal, pictures, miley cyrus, hollywood, britney spears
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Posted by MiLLY Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:06pm PDT
Why should the media -Not we- leave her alone?
She is old enough to know what is right from wrong. Sure is a teen but if she knows how to do all those things that give her a bad rep she should also know how to act her age and not do inapropriate things.
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Posted by Jenn Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:13pm PDT
seriously - go out on facebook and see some of the teenagers and the pictures they place out there at 16 (I have a couple since my godson is that age and I see his page)... these are NOTHING compared to the crap I have seen... in fact I don't even look at his page anymore!
She is 16 and a bit to trusting, in that business I think you have to be a but more on your guard...
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Posted by St.JimmyHavok Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:01pm PDT
Why does everyone care so much? She's a teenager. Teenagers do stuff like this. Get over it.
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Posted by Eddieslilangel Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:30pm PDT
you know what, let her do this. let her show the world how much of an influence she really is. i really don't care if her rep gets trashed. maybe it will get her off the screen and out of the way so we don't have to deal with her anymore. like Redmili said, shes a teen and she knows what will destroy her rep. plus, she's probably doin it for attention too, just like all the other dumbasses in hollywood.
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Posted by opiniononly Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:22pm PDT
The girl needs some serious parenting oversight. Oh wait, that's right, she supports her parents, so they probably don't care if she is whoring herself up...just like so many of the parents of other train wreck teen/20's celebs..as long as they can keep living large at their kids expense.
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Posted by StephanieL Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:30am PDT
My issue with Miley Cyrus is that this girl claims to be such a devout christian, pleding her virginity and trying to live "right" in God's eyes. yet here is she is acting inappropriately. And yeah, this is what some teenagers do, but not ALL of them act this way. Just because it's "normal" doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it should be accepted, or tolerated.
If she wants to be a role model to younger girls, fine, by all means try to be so. But be a GOOD one. And if it's too much pressure to act like a decent respectable young lady, than get out of the public eye and don't try to act holier than thou.
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Posted by tori tori Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:05pm PDT
first off how are those photos racy, second hearing about her does get annoying, but its not like she signed up to be a role model she wanted to sing and act thats whats shes doing if you dont feel she is appropiate for your children dont let them watch her. Her social life is her buisness. i feel her disney show and music is a lot more appropiate than what some parents are letting there kids watch... MTV for example. and its not like she has any control over her life its kinda obvious her father is behind her fame so he can make a comeback. Shes a teenager she doesnt even know whats gonna happen with her life, if she is doing the same crap when shes an adult or if she makes a sex tape then we can start complainiing until then let her live her life
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Posted by Cheryl Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:10am PDT
I know that when I was a teenager I didn't make the best decisions with my future in mind. Maybe Cyrus is a bad role model for our young girls today but that can be said for nearly all of Hollywood.
Why don't we focus on child stars that are not inappropriate. I used a period there because it is a rhetorical question. The answer is parallel to the fact that the media messes these poor child stars up and then puts them into 'role model' positions.
My final thought on this subject is to leave Cyrus alone. But, in our world today, with our gossip-loving lives, we won't leave her alone. And that generation will get their very own, live re-run of poor Brittany Spears (that's right, I felt bad for Spears).
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