Cyrus photograph: art - or something else?

[David]

People who consider this photo to be wrong, near-pornographic, obscene or anything else must have very dirty minds. It is because they WANT to see something out of nothing and when it's not there, they have to pretend it's there for their own sick amusement. Don't let them fool you by saying the photo is dirty or obscene. It is all a matter of opinion. Annie says it's art, then that is her opinion and that's how she sees it. Just because you disagree doesn't mean you can turn an innocent photo into this huge debate.

[jenna]

what a nasty way to get money!! MILEY
I hate to say this but it is sad that another hollywood star has turned into a slut!!!!

[Bababooey]

Then by all means find another planet to live on. If that is what's considered slutty nowadays I wonder what is considered kinky? Pampers commercials?

[Bababooey]

No I don't think I should. I think that the masses of brainwashed bible thumping Bushbots need a good deprogramming so they can see that not all the world is out to contaminate your little crumbsnatchers with EEEEEVVVVIIILLL.

[Druid]

Shannon Bunch wrote:

All you uptight ***bags ragging on Miley for her pictures need to just shut the **** up!
I work in at a preschool as a teacher. I have 2 yr olds that love Hannah Montana, but thats just it. They love Hannah Montana. If I were to ask my 2 yr olds, or ask the 4 yr olds in the other class room if they love Hannah Montana, my ears would bleed from the screaming, but if I ask those same kids who Miley Cyrus is, they would all look at me and say, "Miss Shannon you're silly."
Do you even understand what I'm saying, stupid housewives? KIDS don't CARE!
Now, if your 11 yr old sees her pics and then starts dressing slutty, then thats a different thing. Thats just BAD parenting! Because if your child isn't wholesome enough NOT to dress that way, then the fault doesn't fall on where your child got it from, the fault falls on you, the parent!!
She's not even showing anything!
She's showing about as much skin on her BACK as, say, a girl in a bathing suit going to the beach!!!!!! Oh Lordy paparazzi, don't snap a pic of Miley going swimming, America's moms will have a FIT!!
LMFAO...
You all who are so bothered by this shit are either just lonely housewives or jealous biatches because she's so young and so awesome, you can't handle that, so you're all doing the same thing to Miley that you did to Madonna, and Britney and Christina and anyone else that dressed or acted a certain way that you didn't like!
Get a life, PEOPLE!!
If God wanted us all to be the same, then why did He make us all so different? We can't all be Amish!
Miley, if you're reading this, I think your photos are beautiful. As a matter of fact, you are a beautiful, intelligent and talented girl and I hope all the best for you for the rest of your life. Good job, Billy Ray, you did a good job.=)
As for all you fuckers.....
DEUCES!!!!!!!!

I would think that you being a teacher...could have made your point a little more eloquently...I cant hear your opinion over all the unnecessary cursing.

[Towson mom]

Shannon Bunch wrote:

All you uptight ***bags ragging on Miley for her pictures need to just shut the **** up!
I work in at a preschool as a teacher. I have 2 yr olds that love Hannah Montana, but thats just it. They love Hannah Montana. If I were to ask my 2 yr olds, or ask the 4 yr olds in the other class room if they love Hannah Montana, my ears would bleed from the screaming, but if I ask those same kids who Miley Cyrus is, they would all look at me and say, "Miss Shannon you're silly."
Do you even understand what I'm saying, stupid housewives? KIDS don't CARE!
Now, if your 11 yr old sees her pics and then starts dressing slutty, then thats a different thing. Thats just BAD parenting! Because if your child isn't wholesome enough NOT to dress that way, then the fault doesn't fall on where your child got it from, the fault falls on you, the parent!!
She's not even showing anything!
She's showing about as much skin on her BACK as, say, a girl in a bathing suit going to the beach!!!!!! Oh Lordy paparazzi, don't snap a pic of Miley going swimming, America's moms will have a FIT!!
LMFAO...
You all who are so bothered by this shit are either just lonely housewives or jealous biatches because she's so young and so awesome, you can't handle that, so you're all doing the same thing to Miley that you did to Madonna, and Britney and Christina and anyone else that dressed or acted a certain way that you didn't like!
Get a life, PEOPLE!!
If God wanted us all to be the same, then why did He make us all so different? We can't all be Amish!
Miley, if you're reading this, I think your photos are beautiful. As a matter of fact, you are a beautiful, intelligent and talented girl and I hope all the best for you for the rest of your life. Good job, Billy Ray, you did a good job.=)
As for all you fuckers.....
DEUCES!!!!!!!!

You work as a teacher in a preschool? Do all the teachers speak with the same command of the English language as you do? Where is this school,'cause people need to know who their teachers are!! I certainly don't want you near my children.

[hoop]

i dont see anything wrong with those photos it looks very artistic to me and she showed the same amount that she would of if she was posing in a bathing suit so what the hell and maybe she took that pic for she could try and shad that teeny bop image

[cwl]

there is nothing sexual about that pic. The girl is ugly. She looks just like billy but only with a better mullett.

[CaribRoyal]

I'm a heterosexual grandfather, stilI interested in sex, but I, can't find anything even mildly erotic about ANY of the photos of that young lady, whom my own grand-daughter so idealizes. The topless one reminds me of a famous painting I saw somewhere. It's NOT erotic! It speaks to the vulnerability of INNOCENCE, of Eve,(not Lolita!), as did the painting. Even the photo with the bra, exposes less flesh than a prom dress, might. It's playful innocence, and believe me I've seen and responded to allure. It's NOT there.

I am sickened by people who for some reason want to focus their libido on a child, who's still trying to establish behavioral boundaries. Granted, it is, has always been, a time fraught with danger for the developing teenager who doesn't grasp the dangers, and that's what adults are there for, especially parents, as protectors.

As far as I am concerned, the child didn't do anything wrong, and this is the kind of attention that twists the developing mind into weird shapes, and creates tensions that they then try to relieve, or confront, with drug taking and wild partying.

As far as the pictures with her father is concerned, again I can't see the big deal. As long as he refrains from touching or ogling any erogenous areas, and vice versa, a girl needs to feel as non-sexual in her father's presence as she did as a girl. One of the most touching photos forever imprinted on my mind is that of a beautiful 16 year old girl, arms spread wide, leaping into her father's arms as her returns from the war in Vietnam.

Even so, I admit to being surprised when a very normal young woman I was intimate with, recounted how she showed her father a little swelling on her breast as a teenager, and that he touched it and told her that it didn't feel like the lump in her late mother's breast when she contracted cancer, but that he would take her to a doctor if it was still there two days later. But then I realized how terrified she must have been, and I could see what a healthy stress-free relationship she had developed with the father who raised her. None of this is possible in America today, I'm afraid. We have become one sick society!

[David]

Thanks a million to you, Carib. I mean that honestly. Americans are so preoccupied with sex that any innocent picture that shows any skin with a young girl and suddenly, it's "pornographic". By the way, the young woman with the swelling breast...did she survive and get treated with on time before it became serious?

[mommy]

yes it is too much for her younger fans, but i do not believe she meqant anything bad, leave the girl be

[David]

I'm sorry, Carib. I didn't read all of it. I just skimmed it when I asked if the young woman survived. I can imagine how scared she must have been to face that kind of thing after her mother died from breast cancer. She might have died, too, but it seems to me that she's probably okay now from what you said. The photo of the 16 year old hugging her dad after returning from the Vietnam War sounds sad, but I haven't actually seen the photo itself. Carib...you're a good person with a big heart. Not many others are like you, I'm sorry to say.

[Surf52]

Susan wrote:

Well, Hannah Montana is off my Tivo! My daughter really looks up to her. It's sad that she seems to be going the way of Spears and Lohan.

What's really sad is your daughter looking up to a fictitious character, without understanding the difference between reality and make believe. It's one thing to be entertained by actors playing a role, it's quite another to use them as an idol.
She may as well have picked Sponge-Bob.

[The Wolf Den]

CaribRoyal wrote:

I'm a heterosexual grandfather, stilI interested in sex, but I, can't find anything even mildly erotic about ANY of the photos of that young lady, whom my own grand-daughter so idealizes. The topless one reminds me of a famous painting I saw somewhere. It's NOT erotic! It speaks to the vulnerability of INNOCENCE, of Eve,(not Lolita!), as did the painting. Even the photo with the bra, exposes less flesh than a prom dress, might. It's playful innocence, and believe me I've seen and responded to allure. It's NOT there.
I am sickened by people who for some reason want to focus their libido on a child, who's still trying to establish behavioral boundaries. Granted, it is, has always been, a time fraught with danger for the developing teenager who doesn't grasp the dangers, and that's what adults are there for, especially parents, as protectors.
As far as I am concerned, the child didn't do anything wrong, and this is the kind of attention that twists the developing mind into weird shapes, and creates tensions that they then try to relieve, or confront, with drug taking and wild partying.
As far as the pictures with her father is concerned, again I can't see the big deal. As long as he refrains from touching or ogling any erogenous areas, and vice versa, a girl needs to feel as non-sexual in her father's presence as she did as a girl. One of the most touching photos forever imprinted on my mind is that of a beautiful 16 year old girl, arms spread wide, leaping into her father's arms as her returns from the war in Vietnam.
Even so, I admit to being surprised when a very normal young woman I was intimate with, recounted how she showed her father a little swelling on her breast as a teenager, and that he touched it and told her that it didn't feel like the lump in her late mother's breast when she contracted cancer, but that he would take her to a doctor if it was still there two days later. But then I realized how terrified she must have been, and I could see what a healthy stress-free relationship she had developed with the father who raised her. None of this is possible in America today, I'm afraid. We have become one sick society!

KUDOS. Annie Lebowitz will be remembered like Diane Arbus. I would love to meet her and own a piece of her work. Original piece what would that cost???

[JoeBobDonBaker]

Art.

[Sandi]

sobohon wrote:

It's a beautiful photo. Anyone objecting is in serious need of a life and an aesthetic view. Get real.

Yes, it is a beautiful photo - but it should have remained in the parents house, not in a public magazine where kids who use her as a role model will see it. This says to them "Hey, it's ok to take your shirt off." Do you want your daughter to think along those lines? I don't think so.

[The Wolf Den]

Sandi wrote:

<quoted text>
Yes, it is a beautiful photo - but it should have remained in the parents house, not in a public magazine where kids who use her as a role model will see it. This says to them "Hey, it's ok to take your shirt off." Do you want your daughter to think along those lines? I don't think so.

Sandi, it is Annie Lebowitz, it is a coming of age photo what is wrong with folks? She is a teen star and is treated like an adult, all of the photos are gorgeous, just my opinion.

[jenna]

you people are nasty she is a messed up girl and needs to fix it before her cereer goes down the drain in disney!!!

[dudet]

bye hannah M. have fun watching your career go down the tube!! I agree with JENNA she is right she is gone out of disney that's for sure

[larry g]

Rico Sarna wrote:

<quoted text> Oh please, dad was right there. He had just finished his pictures with Miley rolling around in his lap like they could not wait to get home to.....

I'm glad somebody besides me noticed her in between her father's legs