Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair photo shoot - appropriate?

[sputnikgirl]

Apparently the people at Disney are shitting themselves over xxxx and other suggestive photos taken of Miley Cyrus at a photo shoot for Vanity Fair. The pics were taken by esteemed photographer Annie Liebovitz, and are to be featured in an issue dropping later this week. Now Miley is claiming she was "manipulated" by Vanity Fair, and is embarrassed over the pics. Vanity Fair says her parents were there the entire time, and approved of the final shots.

1. Are these pics appropriate for a 15 year old girl?

2. If the pics aren't appropriate, then who should be held responsible?

 

[Legzman]

ummm...who cares? There is no nudity, so whats the big deal? :dunno:

 

[calpoon]

I don't think that those are inappropriate. they are well shot photos, and the sense that i got was that we are seeing someone "candid" in a moment of vulnerability. Of course, I'm just basing those purely on the artistic composition of the shots, and not on the personal details of cyrus.

I actually really like that this is generating controversy. I really didn't feel that those pictures were sexual at all, and so it points the finger at how sex obsessed our society is that people would jump to that conclusion. it takes a fifteen year old, someone that we are not "supposed to" be sex obsessing about to realize that fact, otherwise it would go wholly unexamined, IMO.

 

[Tballlz63]

i thought she was blond? ehhh anyway i don't see anything wrong with it... but at the same time i would NEVER let my daughter do something like that so...

 

[calpoon]

otherwise it would go wholly unexamined, IMO.

now that I think about it, I'm sure that it still will be. all uncomfortable impressions shall be swept under the rug. but hey, at least the possibility is invited.

 

[Will E Worm]

No, it's not appropriate for a magazine to use someone underage to
sell their magazine in provocative, suggestive or in any stage of undress.

It's sexploitation of an underage girl.

Shouldn't they know better? :dunno:

 

[calpoon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppertone_girl

indecent?

 

[DreamSparrow]

She's not naked in them, no. In fact, she's probably more covered in these pictures than she'd in a dress she'd wear to some awards show. They are sexually suggestive however, so there is a debate to be had. I guess it comes down to what age you think its appropriate for a person to behave like a sexual creature, or in other words, what the age of consent should be.

In America, most states define it as 18, IIRC. That sounds completely unworkable to me. The law is out of touch with the reality of the lives of young people, criminalising vast swathes of society for completely normal behaviour that is a consequence of natural, biological impulses. Most European countries define it as between the ages of 14-16 -- much more logical IMO.

Are people at those ages capable of making intelligent, informed choices, discerning right from wrong though? I have no doubt I was, and I believe most 14-16 year olds seem capable of it too.

At the risk of going off on a tangent, those girls who beat up that cheerleader a couple of weeks ago were legally minors, but it's just naive to think they didn't know it was wrong or that they were incapable of controlling themselves. They should be tried as adults because they are adults.

Back on topic. Does Miley Cyrus seem like an adult to me? She's clearly an adult physically. I don't really know anything about her, but by that age, I'd be surprised if she couldn't make proper decisions for herself. If she can think like an adult and has the body of an adult, why doesn't the law recognise her as one?

 

[Facetious]

1. Are these pics appropriate for a 15 year old girl?

Only if it's somebody else's daughter.

Paris and Britney are soooo over . . .
Marketshare • Marketshare • Marketshare . . .N E X T ! :sighs:

This only degrades the future, one day we'll beg for the return of innocence, IMO.

 

[BlueBalls]

Who cares?


I dont!!! :wave2:

 

[titsrock]

In all honesty...the photo with her laying across Billy Ray, her dad, is more provocative and more disturbing to me...it is very post-coital, imo:eek:

In all the hysteria over this...I'm starting to see a lot of her concert footage when in some of it, she wears a blonde wig and fully covered outfits and uniforms...and then I'll see her sporting a tight-fit white tank and low-riding jeans...PLUS..how old are the male dancers that are on stage with her? They don't look like same age boys to me...they look like 22 yr old "hunks":dunno:

I think big business (Disney)whores itself out...and celebrities, like no-talent hasbeens like Billy Ray, show no shame in trading on the flesh of their children in order to empty the pockets of dumb parents and kids in middle America....

In sum...the bare-shouldered photo is not that sensual to me. It seems like the "logical progression" in the marketing of Ms. Miley. She can't cajole for the 1o yr olds much longer..and she has a lot of "branding potential" for the high school girls/college girls..atleast so she thinks.

Disney has created a teeny-bopper mill...they just find these "fresh faced" "All-american" apple pie kids, package them as "breakthrough talents" and sell them to parents and juniors....this is a large part of their business model. They look at this "scandal" as necessary so they don't have to get rid of Miley on their own...

 

[Facial_King]

Gotta agree with titsrock...

The VF pics seem mostly just stupid and boring.

It seems like there's a mild bit of sexualizing of her going on in that pic - like, oooh, wouldn't you guys love her to drop the sheet??? Just dumb. She's a kid, so the efforts to highlight and market her in a sexual way are lame, however limited they might be here.

That said, I just can't fathom the appeal of her in any sense. She feels like a horrible repeat of something I've seen a million times before. Dumb show about dumb shit. Talentless "star" making it big for some bizarre reason. All of her fans will ask themselves why they dug her within 2-3 years.

The whole thing with Miley/Hannah Montana reflects at least as poorly upon that loser Billy Ray as it does her.

 

[Peter Gazinya]

The only thing "suggestive" about these photos is that they suggest that Miley Cyrus hasn't eaten in a week and hasn't seen sun in two years. She appears to be malnurished in these photographs. Hannah Montana is really just proof that kids are stupid. There's nothing wrong with that, they're supposed to be.

 

[D-rock]

Ehhh...it's not important enough for me to care about. Although maybe somebody should tell her that the Britney path to success is a poor choice. (Of course I say that while they are probably both counting their endless millions of dollars.)

 

[recnal420]

Apparently the people at Disney are shitting themselves over this and other suggestive photos taken of Miley Cyrus at a photo shoot for Vanity Fair. The pics were taken by esteemed photographer Annie Liebovitz, and are to be featured in an issue dropping later this week. Now Miley is claiming she was "manipulated" by Vanity Fair, and is embarrassed over the pics. Vanity Fair says her parents were there the entire time, and approved of the final shots.

1. Are these pics appropriate for a 15 year old girl?

2. If the pics aren't appropriate, then who should be held responsible?

Britney Spears... and thats all that should be said.

The two of them are teenage pop stars that will do almost 'whatever it takes' to get their name out there. '' look at that south park episode this season''
When i was 13 or so and britney came onto the scene, i was like fuck yeah!!!! and i bet a BUNCH of people who were older than her said the same thing.

Its the same with miley cyrus... its just... what fucking dumb thing will she do like britney?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppertone_girl

indecent?

... ... um don't EVER compare Jodie Foster to Miley Cyrus. Jodie has talent. Miley only got as famous as she did because her father wrote that stupid redneck anthem 'achy breaky heart'.

 

[calpoon]

Bum don't EVER compare Jodie Foster to Miley Cyrus. Jodie has talent. Miley only got as famous as she did because her father wrote that stupid redneck anthem 'achy breaky heart'.

hostility much? and sexual release is supposed to be relaxing.. FO's members should be the most relaxed fuckers there are.

I was merely referencing naked ass. not making any kind of attempt to compare the acting ability of foster to cyrus.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Nothing "provocative" for adults, especially us, my dear fellow members a porn forum, who are used to seeing the most intimate parts of a woman in photographs, but I think that it doesn't try to speak to us; it tries to speak to teenagers. When I was 14, or 15, or however the hell old she is, I would have LOVED to have seen a popular actress of my own age semi nude, even if that just meant seeing her back bared. I'm not trying to compare this to porn, but it isn't something that I think anyone underage should be doing. It's something like Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issues; I've heard that the people who buy that issue the most are teenage boys, and that it's a kind of "pre-porn" that is legal and accessible to underage boys.

I don't really know how white trash the Cyruses are, all I know of them is that the dad sang one of the most annoying songs ever written, and that the Hannah Montana load out that I worked about 6 months ago sucked balls, but it seems to me like the parents are getting the girl ready for her post-teen star life. Who knows, maybe someday she could be just like Lindsay Lohan or the Olson twins.

 

[calpoon]

totally. I know that sex was the last thing on my mind at fifteen.

and by "last" I really mean "only".

I don't even find these new pics to be all that inappropriate. For FO's, well, yes, obviously. but for middle school? no way, those are PG-13 at worst.

 

[Facetious]

"The Judge" Napolitano said that dad (Billy Ray (?) could see some jail time for some of the other photos.

Apparently, minors may not pose in any sexually suggestive context, period.

I can live with that. Goons get off on kiddie stuff. I hate goons !

 

[calpoon]

Apparently, minors may not pose in any sexually suggestive context, period.

for pictures or just in general. Otherwise I guess the cops are going to descending on every mall in America.