Honestly, I don't care what Miley Cyrus does. She can wear her underwear over her pants. She can run around in little short-shorts. I don't care. She's practically an adult. Are we going to ask the same question next year when she's 18 and officially an adult? Will people stop caring then? It just seems like faux-concern.
Are Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony so important that they need to travel with a guard dog? The dog probably needs therapy from working for them. Who wouldn't?
Can we please leave Miley alone? and stop applying the criterion of "What would 12 year old Hannah Montana do?" to everything she does? She is 17 and her party sounds like it was fun.
@anya629: I don't know why Miley Cyrus gets so much flak. I think it's because parents wanted to believe that she was this perfect Christian role model for their little girls. But if you think about it, this is nothing new. Britney was singing "Hit Me Baby" in Catholic school-girl wear when she was 17.
Get over it. Young women are sexualized. Parents, stop holding Hollywood up as models for little girls. It's always the same story.
@soeffingclassy: As the parent of a not-quite-tween girl, my biggest problem with Miley Cyrus is that her show is so fucking annoying. Beyond that, I just can't get too excited about her. She's a teenager acting like a teenager.
A German Shepard doesn't need counseling. A German Shepard is a dog breed that is extremely protective, whose owners should take precautions to keep relaxed and comfortable or get a dog sitter. You don't introduce the dog to strangers, what do you think is going to happen? Sigh.
@itsonreserve: Thank you! Our darling Lady was INSANELY protective of all of us (especially me, as I was the tiny one). It didn't matter who it was, until she got to know you, you were public enemy no. 1. Thus, lots and lots of training to keep her from mauling the pizza boy.
@itsonreserve: Word. My dog is a mutt, but he's got a lot of GS in him. And he will fuck anything up if it gets close to me. One time late at night I was walking him, and some guy (on a kind of dark and tree-lined street that was empty) started basically threatening to rape me. The whole time I was thinking, "Oh god, I hope he doesn't come over here. Please don't let him get too close. Or Bubba's gonna kill him and they'll probably put Bubba to sleep for killing someone. Crazy Evil Man, stay away please I don't want my dog to have to kill you because then my dog will get hurt."
Later I got angry about the man and his fucked up shit. But at the time I was far more worried about my dog killing him than actually getting hurt myself, because not only is he a rescue dog (and therefore emotional scarred and super dependent) who hates men (because a man used to beat him), but he is super, super protective. And that's one of the many things I love about him. He's totally cool when my emotions are cool, but if I get anxious or scared he can tell immediately, locates the source of my anxiety, and makes it clear that it needs to step the fuck back.
All I took from this whole column is that it's been so long since The Real World San Francisco that a sit-com where teenagers regularly break into song has co-opted the name Puck for a character and presumably the character isn't a drugged up messenger boy. Wow.
@bluebears: Thats what I think of when someone mentions Puck from Glee. It makes me giggle a little to think of a little "knavish sprite" causing all sorts of mishaps in love.
Uggh, Zac's hair tip sounds terrible, I hate having a wet pillow. True story: when I used to go to bed with wet hair in elementary school, I would wear a santa hat to bed to keep my pillow dry.
@bluetrain84: I take a shower every night and go to bed every night with wet hair. It's no big deal really, you just have to remember to wash your pillows every month or so or else they get all stained and gross. Sounds gross, but I can not sleep with dry hair.
@wooden_shoes: I applaud you for your ability to do this, I wish that I could because it would save me a lot of time in the morning. We are like polar opposites: you can't sleep with dry hair, I can't sleep with wet!
@bluetrain84: I shower at night, but I blow dry it before I go to bed otherwise it looks haggard in the morning. And while cute, just-got-fucked hair might look awesome for Zac Efron, my boss gets prickly when I wear ponytails so I'm not pushing my luck.
@HannahBethD: Hang on a mo... Your boss spends time developing strong feelings about ponytails? Unless you're a hair model, I'd tell your superior to go suck eggs. Nicely. But still. Eggs.
@A Small Turnip: My boss has many strong opinions on a great number of things, which she is not shy about sharing with whomever happens to be listening.
And yes, it has been decided that ponytails are unprofessional. So the days when my Medusa hair just won't cooperate, up in a ponytail it goes and I hide in my office so she won't see it.
@HannahBethD: Jaysus, girl. You've got amazing self control for not pantsing your boss mid-soliloquy, which is what I would be sorely tempted to do. Ponytails. What's next? Picking on kittens?
You keep on with your bad be-ponytailed self, H. Do it for me.
@whynotshesaid: @EsmereldaFitzmonster: @A Small Turnip: It is infuriating. No lie. I get that because I'm the PR flak, I should look professional at all times. OK, no problem. But she really doesn't understand that my hair will do whatever it wants whenever it wants and a ponytail is the only reliable method for keeping it under control.
I'm tempted to let come in with it in its full Helena Bonham Carter-esque glory one day and ask which she prefers.
Oh, and my boss is a serial micromanager. Ah, work life!
I dunno - I don't care about Miley at all. That's a pretty iconic movie (and a pretty tame movie, at that), 17 years old is not 12 years old - when I was in school, for Halloween a guy came to school dressed like Tom Cruise from Risky Business, and I don't think anyone freaked out about the fact that he was dressed as a john. Why do our standards always have to be so stringent?
@laureltreedaphne: When I was 13, I wanted nothing more than to dress as Julia Roberts' character for Halloween, so I confess I'm mostly just jealous. Well, the part of me that's still 13.
@laureltreedaphne: When I was 12, I decided I would go as a hooker for Halloween. My mother wouldn't let me, so instead, I went as an 80s hooker, and she didn't know the difference.
WTF, 12-year-old self?
I was also doing it to impress my boyfriend at the time. We wandered around for like, an hour and then went back to his mom's trailer, and she scoffed at us.
@boxspelunker: Hah! I love that story. I had a friend whose mom let her go as a geisha when we were like 10, which I think a lot of neighborhood parents were a little taken aback by.
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Get over it. Young women are sexualized. Parents, stop holding Hollywood up as models for little girls. It's always the same story.
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Later I got angry about the man and his fucked up shit. But at the time I was far more worried about my dog killing him than actually getting hurt myself, because not only is he a rescue dog (and therefore emotional scarred and super dependent) who hates men (because a man used to beat him), but he is super, super protective. And that's one of the many things I love about him. He's totally cool when my emotions are cool, but if I get anxious or scared he can tell immediately, locates the source of my anxiety, and makes it clear that it needs to step the fuck back.
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And yes, it has been decided that ponytails are unprofessional. So the days when my Medusa hair just won't cooperate, up in a ponytail it goes and I hide in my office so she won't see it.
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You keep on with your bad be-ponytailed self, H. Do it for me.
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I'm tempted to let come in with it in its full Helena Bonham Carter-esque glory one day and ask which she prefers.
Oh, and my boss is a serial micromanager. Ah, work life!
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WTF, 12-year-old self?
I was also doing it to impress my boyfriend at the time. We wandered around for like, an hour and then went back to his mom's trailer, and she scoffed at us.
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Halloween!
A time to dress up like hookers
It doesn't matter that I'm 12, right?
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