consultingcriminal: hells-bells-trudy: michelinamarie: tonighstreality / breakyourlittleheartin2 / birthofasupervillain So I was watching the news this morning and I heard the news anchor talk about some video Miley Cyrus just came out with and how it was “very inappropriate, given her age”. I decided to turn on my MacBook to go to Google to see what all the fuss was about, and managed to catch the clip in question, called “Can’t Be Tamed” in which Miley plays a giant bird that quickly learns how to dance and gyrate, among other things. I scrolled down to the comments and saw the occasional “slut” thrown around here and there. Then I started thinking. That guy with no shirt in the New Moon movie definitely didn’t get the same flack. Why is that? Aren’t they about the same age, give or take a few months? Now I’m obviously not a fan of Miley Cyrus or a Twilight fan so I don’t really care, but I still wonder…. is there really that much of a difference? (via birthofasupervillain) I agree, I’m not a fan of Miley Cyrus either but I do like Twilight and it pretty much is the same. But I believe a magazine pointed out how Taylor had said he felt uncomfortable always taking his shirt off and I could swear there was something somewhere talking about his excessive shirt removal THIS. ALL OF THIS.  Really interesting. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I have to give Miley some more slack. I can’t stand being hypocritical, and I find Taylor Lautner really attractive and may or may not have that picture saved to my phone I mean what I don’t care for Twilight but Taylor Lautner is really attractive okay look at those abs One of the biggest things I hate about media is societal oppression and the discrete ways sex sells things like movies and music. It’s taken me years to let myself tune out of the shit that they tell us we should be - skinny, beautiful, popular, dressed like this, acting like that, et cetera. And honestly, when you realize it all, you take one look and you don’t ever want to be a part of it. You see a perfume advertisement and there’s a pretty girl clad in just a silk bedsheet sprawled on the floor. You see an advertisement for guy’s jeans and the hunky model is shirtless. I want to be able to raise my children away from all this but… you know, I can’t. This is society. This is what we’ve allowed media to shape into. If people don’t see things like what was mentioned above - Miley’s risque music video and Taylor Lautner’s overexposed abs - as something used to sell things, then please take another look. Did this make sense? I might’ve gone one way and then abruptly turned into another. If that sentence made sense. If anything I write ever makes sense.

consultingcriminal: hells-bells-trudy: michelinamarie: tonighstreality / breakyourlittleheartin2 / birthofasupervillain

So I was watching the news this morning and I heard the news anchor talk about some video Miley Cyrus just came out with and how it was “very inappropriate, given her age”. I decided to turn on my MacBook to go to Google to see what all the fuss was about, and managed to catch the clip in question, called “Can’t Be Tamed” in which Miley plays a giant bird that quickly learns how to dance and gyrate, among other things. I scrolled down to the comments and saw the occasional “slut” thrown around here and there. Then I started thinking. That guy with no shirt in the New Moon movie definitely didn’t get the same flack. Why is that? Aren’t they about the same age, give or take a few months? Now I’m obviously not a fan of Miley Cyrus or a Twilight fan so I don’t really care, but I still wonder…. is there really that much of a difference?

(via birthofasupervillain)

I agree, I’m not a fan of Miley Cyrus either but I do like Twilight and it pretty much is the same. But I believe a magazine pointed out how Taylor had said he felt uncomfortable always taking his shirt off and I could swear there was something somewhere talking about his excessive shirt removal

THIS. ALL OF THIS. 

Really interesting. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I have to give Miley some more slack. I can’t stand being hypocritical, and I find Taylor Lautner really attractive and may or may not have that picture saved to my phone I mean what I don’t care for Twilight but Taylor Lautner is really attractive okay look at those abs

One of the biggest things I hate about media is societal oppression and the discrete ways sex sells things like movies and music. It’s taken me years to let myself tune out of the shit that they tell us we should be - skinny, beautiful, popular, dressed like this, acting like that, et cetera. And honestly, when you realize it all, you take one look and you don’t ever want to be a part of it. You see a perfume advertisement and there’s a pretty girl clad in just a silk bedsheet sprawled on the floor. You see an advertisement for guy’s jeans and the hunky model is shirtless. I want to be able to raise my children away from all this but… you know, I can’t. This is society. This is what we’ve allowed media to shape into. If people don’t see things like what was mentioned above - Miley’s risque music video and Taylor Lautner’s overexposed abs - as something used to sell things, then please take another look. Did this make sense? I might’ve gone one way and then abruptly turned into another. If that sentence made sense. If anything I write ever makes sense.

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