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08/12/09
Not everything is as perverted as people make it.
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That being said- I personally think that that the condonment of this kind of behavior can seriously influence their adult behavior, not because it will make them any less developed overall, but because they're spending an extremely significant part of their developmental childhood focused on things that are completely irrelevant to their overall mental well-being. Instead of focusing on dancing and dressing like sluts (pardon the harsh term), and acting like complete idiots to get attention from boys (which really is all it is), they should be focusing on things like their education and community service, things that also build life-long self-esteem. I'm not saying that young girls can't go out and have fun- but the problem is that its really the only focus and priority for a lot of these girls. And yes, a young girl dressing in incredibly scantily-clad clothing- entirely for the purpose of attracting male attention, whether she is aware of it or not, is sexually exploiting herself.
08/15/09
I've never told anyone that.
I was hypersexualized for a few years, and then I just stopped. I'm 22 now, and I spend a fair amount of time volunteering, working with human rights groups, the environment and I'll graduate university in the spring.
While hypersexualization are certainly dangerous, I don't think they will ruin a child if they are played out safely and they have other ways of expressing themselves. I don't know if Cyrus has that or not, but I know that my phase was temporary, and thankfully, not dangerous.
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08/11/09
ANYTIME they put talent on a moving object there is something to support them or to hold on to. I don't think it was meant to be stripper pole as much as a "miley, don't fall off the roley cart pole." She didn't even do any stripper moves on it. She squatted next to it with her hand on it, which if you've ever squatted you know it's easier to do/hold/get up from when you can hold onto something. She didn't spin on it or grind against it. I think it's pretty innocent. Also when performing you come to learn that working on multiple levels (near the floor, standing sitting etc) makes a performance more appealing, she was just changing levels.
If you're on an uneven stage on a box that rolls and is being pushed by a dancer with flashing lights and lots of noise all around you and heals, I'm sure you'd want something to hold on to too.
08/12/09
When I watched the video in the little YouTube box, I assumed she was holding onto the cart's umbrella stand. Especially, since the "pole" is only slightly taller than her and in the still, it looks very small.
IOW: It looks like an umbrella stand to me.
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wow. I don't really know how to respond to that.
08/11/09
how about without judgement?
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Kids emulate alot of things. I wanted to be EVERYTHING when I was a kid. Sometimes play is just play. I used to want to be a tiger when I was little, I didn't grow up to be one.
08/11/09
I think it was perfectly appropriate for a girl her age to dance around a pole. She just did it about 3 months late.
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I would feel better about all of this if I could ascertain whether she herself understood that she was using unexpected or inappropriate expressions of sexuality to manipulate audiences and score P.R. points. If she knows what she’s doing, more power to her: it’s a page out of young Madonna’s playbook, really.
08/11/09
So much word. I think that's why as much as I hate to, I identify with her. I tried so hard to impress people at 16 that it makes me a little sick to think about now.
So Miley, I hope in 10 years you look back, cringe at some of the ridiculous things you did, and feel happy you don't care what others think now.
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Oh, Sadie, again I'm going to go all fan-girl again: I love your voice, truly.
08/11/09
Uh...when I turned 16, I had a birthday party at Dave & Busters and received some clothes, a makeup kit from Bealls and an *NSYNC poster. I think those are symbols of young womanhood not a stripper pole...
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No, a stripper pole ISN"T a SYMBOL OF MODERN YOUNG WOMANHOOD--It's a symbol of $tripping, of taking your clothes off, for money, presumably because you have no other skills/education to rely on. The young woman I knew who stripped said she did so because she had no self esteem to due her father beating her as she was growing up. It was a trolling place for johns and she ended up, like many strippers, becoming a prostitute. I am a young modern woman and the stripper pole does NOT symbolize MY choices or MY future. If I had daughters I wouldn't want it to them either.
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There are women (and men) who are strippers because they have no other options. There are also those who are strippers because they want to be.