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May 1, 2008
This is the Annie Lebowitz image from her Miley Cyrus photo shoot for Vanity Fair that is causing all the fuss ---- "topless" photos of hitherto wholesome 15-year-old Disney star Miley Cyrus.
Annie Lebowitz, Miley Cyrus, Vanity Fair, May 2008
Lebowitz has portrayed Little Miss Innocence, role model to six-year-old girls as a provocative sex kitten. The Family values crowd are outraged.
Isn't sex what celebrity culture is all about? Isn't this a standard VF pouty pictures of an ingénue? Isn't Cyrus 15 and so becoming, or is, a sexual person? What's new about a girl's sexuality being used to sell magazines. Hasn't the Miley/Hannah been used to sell everything from bedsheets to karaoke machines?
Like Britney Spears before her, Miley Cyrus has been deliberately marketed as a Lolita: both innocent and knowing, sexy but not sexual. Isn't this image Cyrus with her dad, Billy Ray, more disturbing than bare back?
Annie Lebowitz, Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray, Vanity Fair
Check the video.
Isn't it more disturbing that our culture sends message to young girls that their job and their worth as young women will depend on their ability to look and act sexy, but they have to talk in about virginity, purity and sexual innocence.
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daughter enhances father's sexuality? Daughter is father's property? Father owns daughter's sexuality? Cyrus is not her own person in the second image. She is more so in the first one.