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Topic: Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair photo

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51	mele Tue 4/29/2008 8:17a	Except Miley and her parents KNEW going into show business that this is exactly what it would be like. They wanted this attention. If they just wanted to make music, they could do that anywhere. They're chasing this sort of fame (just like Britney and her family did/do). I'm just saying that they can't have it both ways. If she wants to be a Disney star, be on a kid's network, then she should be prepared to keep her wilder side out of the public eye. If she wants to be a sex symbol (at 15-creepy), then it's time to transition into the next stage of her career by moving on. Listen, I didn't complain about her rolling around on the floor of a hotel room with her girlfriend and I didn't complain about her sexy dance moves. I remember thinking about sex all of the time when I was 15. I don't expect her to be a nun. I've seen multiple photos where she's posing suggestively. They seem to be appearing every few weeks and it's a bit suspicious. (Of course, I could just be the voice of the Satan attacking her, for crying out loud.) If this is a ploy for her career, it's gross. My first thoughts at the first and second group of photos was that her parents would put a stop to them (out of concern for her career more than anything else) but now it just seems to be part of being a starlet in Hollywood: create sexy photos when you're underage, then suddenly a sex tape gets stolen and released and your career is MADE. Maybe an MTV reality show would be better for Miley at this stage of the game, not a show on the Disney channel? I agree, society is comletely to blame for making idiots famous, but can't I rant about it, just a little? ;-)
52	dshyates Tue 4/29/2008 8:17a	"I will start off by saying maybe it's just my computer screen but that photo clearly shows (to me) a young female calling for sex. The backdrop appears to have blue and gray hues and the girl looks pale but she has ***accentuated*** red lips. OVERLY ACCENTUATED RED LIPS like a female Baboon's privates helping her attract a mate in the wild. Can this get any more carnal? I would say this is on the brink of underage porn--- nicely done VF, Miley and parents; you really are a work of art and help our children with poses like this." Barboy, its attitudes like this that I find far scarier than the pictures. She is showing far less skin than she would at the hotel pool. Remind me to dress my daughters in a tent the next time I take them to the pool in case you are there. Its a bare back people, and she has on lipstick.
53	jdub Tue 4/29/2008 8:23a	>>OVERLY ACCENTUATED RED LIPS like a female Baboon's privates helping her attract a mate in the wild<< LOL, but--that's the FASHION, right! It doesn't MEAN anything! Right? Nor does the way girls turn around & bend over when they dance, nor does the jeans-around-the-knees style of young men-- it's just simple, innocent FASHION! It's innocent!
54	dshyates Tue 4/29/2008 8:30a	"I'm just saying that they can't have it both ways. If she wants to be a Disney star, be on a kid's network, then she should be prepared to keep her wilder side out of the public eye. If she wants to be a sex symbol (at 15-creepy), then it's time to transition into the next stage of her career by moving on." Once again we agree. But here is the difference. I have no desire to continue buying Hannah Montana merchendise. You, or specifically your kids do. I do believe it is time for Miley to move on, and for Disney to find another age appropriate product to hock. Asking Miley to portry a innocent TV character is one thing, asking her to BE a TV character is another. When a young lady starts to develop a body that regardless of dress is going to attract sexual attention, its time to move them out of the role of innocence. And to be honest, I am more concerned about Miley and her development than the impact on your kids. Chances are you kids will be fine. The track record for Disney chld stars isn't promising. Disney doesn't care about Miley. Billy Ray knows this and I believe is positioning Miley for a post Disney career.
55	barboy Tue 4/29/2008 8:34a	"She is showing far less skin than she would at the hotel pool." If you reread what I wrote you should understand it's not the exposure of skin ---- it's the overexposure of ****RED**** lips I find offensive in this context. Red lips like an aroused female baboon's privates to call forth her male companions during mating season. "Remind me to dress my daughters in a tent the next time I take them to the pool" ---look, no need for the defense or sarcasm. Maybe you didn't read DAR's thread on girls in Mexico at the pools/beach who were topless. I have no problem, none, with anyone, any age naked on beaches or pools if that is the way they want to enjoy the water because it is innocent fun and enjoyment. But that photo while not showing "nudity" is straight up offensive due to its subject matter--- some very adult themes going on. There is a proper context for everything.
56	dshyates Tue 4/29/2008 8:35a	"Billy Ray knows this and I believe is positioning Miley for a post Disney career." Seriously, have you ever seen a less provocative, provocative shot. It shows nothing. You see her back, and she is wearing lipstick. They created a media firestorm without damaging her long term reputation at all. Trust me. Posting this pic on the internet would get zero hits without the accompanying manufactured outrage.
57	dshyates Tue 4/29/2008 8:38a	"Red lips like an aroused female baboon's privates to call forth her male companions during mating season." You scare me. So all women who wear red lipstick (of any shape) are trying to make their face look like a baboon's vagina. And are calling for sex.
58	RoadTrip Tue 4/29/2008 8:40a	My life just got a whole lot more fun. How was I to know that every time my wife wore red lipstick she really wanted sex?? I'll be back to LP in a week or so... ;-)
59	dshyates Tue 4/29/2008 8:40a	That should be "(of any shade)".
60	barboy Tue 4/29/2008 8:44a	Ok jdub what do big red lips signify? Traditionally and generally when women, not men, accentuate their lips with red lipstick what is the underlying idea?

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