<![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> "We're not accusing these stylists of being pedophiles..." for reasons of liability and deniability, we're just strongly making the implication.

kingzilch

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> It would have been nice if Miley could have be wearing that prom dress (in reference to above).

The awful thing is that she's already a BILLION dollar industry--yet the Cyrus' greedily think they needed to pimp her out like a street prostitute. (Ask Brooke Shields now what she thinks of Pretty Baby and whether she'd let her kids pose like that.)

As for Leibowitz, look at her recent racist Vogue cover with LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen whom she depicts as "King Kong" and Fay Wray. Again, here is a very wealthy and popular photog who takes the cheap road, thus, demonstrating that money does not buy good taste.

LuLu_G

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Yatta!: "58-year-old vegetarian photographer Annie Leibovitz?"

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> "58-year-old lesbian photographer Annie Leibovitz"
Woah, there! Journalism is not the field of "let your voice be heard". Ask yourself, or your editors: is the inclusion of the word "lesbian" necessary? ethical? does the reader need to know this particular piece of information? are you toe-ing the fine, fine line of editorializing? I would not have included that in my piece, but, then again, I am not a part of the blogosphere.

Yatta!

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> The issue is not Annie's sexual preference or whether she is a pedophile. Annie is a parent and the mother of three young girls. Would she allow them to pose like this when they are 15? And let's be real, the photos of Miley with her Dad are pretty creepy too. When was the last time you lay in your father's crotch and gazed seductively into a camera?

las332

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @busyness: Big Mike'll be back. He's missed by more than just the commenters.
But I'm never going to stop making that joke.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> The little girl that I take care of has parents that won't let her have a Bratz doll but got tickets to see Miley Cyrus at $300 each.
What's the difference except that at least when she plays with the Bratz dolls she uses her imagination and thinks up her own scenarios.

hertruthiness

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Hez: :-)

busyness

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Who the hell is Smiley Cyprus, and why should enyone over nine care?

thefrontpage

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> The word is ephebophile.

ogsoleysol

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Am I mistaken in thinking that most of the models featured in Vanity Fair are around 15? People don't exactly buy the mag to sprunk off to. What's the big deal?

4Cats

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Lizawithazee: This is Gawker, not Jezebel. We don't award "Worsties". We just wait for you to go out for a sandwich and then kill you.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @ADismalScience: she's neither quivering nor fleshy. but thanks for the visual!

lalalina

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Gravy Train: uh, probably because it's irrelevant.

slowtraincoming

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> miley cyrus = cry lies yum
annie leibovitz = i anoint lez vibe

anagramsam

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Oh please...Brooke Shields did this so much better in 1978 with Louis Malle and Pretty Baby...ditto with Calvin Klein. The Lolita fix has been around long before...well...Lolita. Me thinks the lady doth protest too much. This is a cynical ploy to sell magazines. wake up people. this is not an anagram by the way.

anagramsam

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> naboo and eddie, my bad, sorry

Gravy Train

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @lalalina:

You're right. It's appearing in neither of those publications; rather than reducing naked 15-year-olds to pornography, we're reducing them further to objets d'art. They're like quivering, fleshy cans of tomato soup with breasts and managers. And inexplicable singing careers.

She's become an accessory to some sick sense of the era. That, truly, is the shame of it: the eagerness with which we dismiss this "no big deal."

ADismalScience

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Why is this such a big deal? It's a very tasteful photo, and as a 15 year old she's realistically on the cusp of becoming a sexual being. I mean, it's not like this picture is appearing in Barely Legal or Juggs. The shame this incident promotes is ultimately more damaging than the tasteful acknowledgement of her sexuality. Are we really supposed to infantalize teenagers until they're ready to fight our wars? If only Americans were as squeamish about violence as we are about sex.

lalalina

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Let's not forget, if there's one thing her old man learned, it's that you should grab all the attention you can while you're getting it because, absent talent, it will surely go away. Like father like daughter.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> These are not so bad.

She's illegal and underage, yes, but she's not a child. She's 15.

spikenard

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @annasballs: Don't call my fantasy boyfriend a douche bag! I have absolutely no idea why, but I love him.

gladys_kravitz

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Look how much higher the sheet is in the candids. And she actually looks her age, not like a just-fucked twelve year old.

VivianDarkbloom

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Did Smiley/Handled apologize for the photos after the bad press?

bichon

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Readsforaliving: Well said. Totally agree.

hhpeterson13

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Poor Miss Leibovitz must be praying that she doesn't get hit by a bus.

If she flees this life now her obit is going to be all about this photo shoot with the Disney machine's slutty Pop-Tart du jour.

What do people call the lesbian version of a chicken hawk? Cougar?

bloodguard

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> You've got it backwards. Pedophiles are the ones mimicking the techniques perfected by image conscious PR people, not the other way around--i.e., the photo people are literally grooming her. What the pervs do is a sick imitation of that.

So yeah, this resembles "grooming" because that's where the term came from in the first place.

The Cooler

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @YouandWhoseArmy: Mmm, so true.. I happened to be living in the city for 6months during the time her show was up, and I was underwhelmed at best.

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> This young lady has an entire lifetime of photo shoots ahead of her. Why rush her into this sort of image? How is it age-appropriate? It appears that the parents aren't setting any boundaries for her or for the people she's working with. Sad.

Readsforaliving

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @felion: Ha! Truly, questionable results are to be expected when your stylist is a Parisian street clown.

MadameDecline

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @dado: Bookin' for a Worstie, are you?

Lizawithazee

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Annie Leibovitz is overrated. Her show at the Brooklyn Museum was terrible. If I had access to famous people I could have be a famous photographer too. Thank god for Ron Murck's sculptures....

YouandWhoseArmy

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @MadameDecline:
What do you expect when they bring in some homeless guy off the street to be the stylist?

felion

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @alices_list: making jokes that people interpret as serious statements, apparently.

izzodee544

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I am so tired of this sheet-draped rodent.

MadameDecline

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @dandles: 'Blue Lagoon' was made and released just prior to the Moral Majority psychos and the rash of (probably false) accusations of alleged 'ritual sexual abuse' made by religious nuts and zealots in the Child Protective Services of various states who planted the seeds of what we now know were false stories of sexual abuse and satanic murders, stories that even at the time were totally irrational and supported by no facts whatsoever.

Reagan, his religious nut followers and a cynical network of organizations who exploited the fears and ignorance of those religious nuts have much to answer for, both for the children they exploited and the adults whose lives were ruined by the false accusations, the witch hunts and the persecution.

Check out the history of the McMartin day care center.

This ranks with Joseph McCarthy's lies and fear mongering.

gwendolyn

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> > Pedophelia is the attraction/molestation of children who have NOT hit puberty. <

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age."

gawkimo

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @izzzooodeee
If you think the gays are scary molesters, watchoodoin hangin' out at gawker?

alices_list

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @titania1285: I don't think it's FINE, exactly, but I certainly don't think it's OMG! Pedophilia!

little stripes

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Just so you know, diggin' 15 year olds may be creepy, but it's NOT PEDOPHELIA. Pedophelia is the attraction/molestation of children who have NOT hit puberty.

little stripes

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> As always, I blame Demi Moore.

Spirit Fingers

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> uhm, when i was 15, i knew who and what annie liebovitz was, and i would have done this shoot, too. am i the only person who thinks this is fine? she's not your average 15 year old. she's got a multi-million dollar career to think about. she's not worrying about if she can afford a dress to go to the junior prom.

titania1285

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @slowtraincoming: Agreed. Moreover, both her live show and her TV show are a tad racy to begin with.

The larger takeaway is the mainstream medias complicity in elevating trash news over real news.

McCheeburger

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I try to shield my kids from scandals involving their beloved stars, but it never works -- they'll hear some inflated version of the truth at school. (Example: After the naked Vanessa Hudgens pics made news, they informed me that she'd been arrested and was still in jail for doing that. I let them believe it.)
For my kids' sake, I was kinda hoping Miley would remain scandal-free for awhile. Sigh.

redphone2

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> The whole thing is just gross. Miley Cyrus is not Jodie Foster or even Brooke Shields, she's a Disney creation whose fan base is 10 years old. WTF Vanity Fair?

onwarddouchebagsoldiers

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @moff: Whatever she spent on the thongs, the visibility of which was supposed to accomplish much of said repositioning. So...in the micro sense, not much. In the macro sense, it's pretty much a multi-billion dollar business turning teenaged girls into sluts for the puerile enjoyment of middle-aged men.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> i really can't believe all the hubbub about this. the main complaint seems to be that miley cyrus's fans are between 6-14. well, if they're the only ones interested in this girl, why is vanity fair doing a profile on her? 6-14 year olds aren't reading VF, i promise you. so the odds that these children would even be exposed to this without the obsessive, repressive media attention are extremely minimal.

slowtraincoming

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @starflygirl: "not that there's anything wrong with that"

Juggernaut

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @alices_list: says you

izzodee544

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @EvidenceOfAbsence: that's because taylor momsen is hot (unfortunately) whereas miley is just topless. true story.

izzodee544

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @EvidenceOfAbsence: Although, I guess the difference is that Gossip Girl isn't "aimed" at lil girls (even though you know they must be watching) and therefore we don't have Ma and Pa Disneyfied setting raging Hannah Montana bonfires or whatever.

Les bebes who watch Gossip Girl have Cool Moms who are out playing tennis or in having wine. They're like "OMG! We should get your hair cut like Jenny Humphrey! Here sweetie, do you want to sample mummy's eyeliner?"

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Sidenote: so glad they changed her birth name from "Destiny Hope Cyrus." I mean, I have serious issues with the name. It just begs the question, "Does one need hope if something is destined?"

exitplan

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Child porn.

PersonOfInterest

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @gravy train
I'm more freaked out that the original post Does mention AL's sexual preferences.
Cann'ae be conflating the gays and the pedophiles. Not the same thing.

alices_list

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Mediahohoho:good on them

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @EvidenceOfAbsence: WORD/PREACH/AMEN/RIGHT ON/TRUE DAT.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Blah blah. Stop showing me pics of the upcline. I want to see her bald haeded after back to back pregnancies w/ giant umbrella in her hand fashioned as a weapon!

Related: when is the other Spears spawn popping out the bastard baby? I feel like Zoey101's been pregnant FOREVER.

SneakingThroughTheAlleyWithLalley

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @moff: Anything possible. Still working off a lot of steam built up during the dictatorship.

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> The "58-year-old lesbian photographer"? What does her being lesbian have to do with it?

starflygirl

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Uh, see the creepy old guy 'stylist' in the last two pictures? That is a pedophile.

(I'm kidding, but he does fit the stereotype.)

CaptainFantastic

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Mediahohoho: But how many millions of dollars were at stake?

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> You know, when my neice was 15, she went through a phase where she wanted to reposition herself as more of a sexpot. That's where her parents stepped in and said, um, no.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @gawkimo: Bingo. She's more Ghost World, or Welcome To The Dollhouse.

dado

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @moff: The shame, in Spain, is mainly without aim.

EvidenceOfAbsence

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @gawkimo: zackly ... commenting on the attributes of a 15 yr old ...

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @moff: Leave my weekend funtime activities out of this.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Has the ever crafty porn industry weighed in on this tween phenomenon? Any parody titles along the lines of "Hannah Mounts Anus" or such?

naboo

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> >> It would be different if Smiley Miley were remotely attractive... <<

Because then she'd be wank worthy?

gawkimo

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @moff: some of us even sexually exploit ourselves!

the supergoddess

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I entitle this piece "Monument to the Death of Free Will"

ADismalScience

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @SarahHeartburn: Whom do they sexually exploit in Spain?

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Geez, this photo is so tame. Wasn't Brooke Shields naked in Blue Lagoon at age 13, getting it on with Christopher Atkins? This photo is nothing, I'm glad she's not skankier.

dandles

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> But somehow, everyone's chill with that New York cover starring a tarted-up 14-year-old Taylor Momsen, wearing only her drawers, a push-up bra, and a see-through tank?

EvidenceOfAbsence

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Gravy Train: it's in there, gravy

EddieTheDane

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Gravy Train: see above. too subtle?

naboo

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> It would be different if Smiley Miley were remotely attractive...they're doing the best they can with what they've got.

dado

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @moff: That's heartening.

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Mediahohoho: Hey! We sexually exploit a lot of older women, too.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @gawkimo: lol.

britneyspearstears

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @Gravy Train: Abject horror?

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> why has no one mentioned annie's sexual preferences?

Gravy Train

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I submit that given the right context, spin and audience, any photoshoot involving minors can look like something unseemly.

And now I'm burning all of my grammar school class photos. And pictures of my kids, nieces, nephews and my pets.

Thank you very much.

McCheeburger

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Wow. Next thing you'll be saying is that we have a popular culture based on sexually exploiting teen-aged girls. And you'll be right.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> When all's said and done, she's a kid who hasn't exactly had a normal childhood.

The big questions should be put to the Achy Breaky Dad.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I steal Vanity Fair for the articles.

gawkimo

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @annasballs: Or is she MOLESTING HERSELF??!?

Whoa.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> She's just a kid, and she looks like one. It's not even tongue-in-cheek, 16-year-old Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera sexy. People are just waiting for this girl to head down that road, and will jump at the slightest opportunity to say "it's happened! Miley's gone skank!"

And I'm sure that Graydon and Co. are feeding into it, because they will take any buzz they can get to move their magazine.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Am I the only one who pictures Annie Leibovitz as someone who is chomping at the bit for some controversy? I mean, come on: a photographer can only take so many aesthetically perfect photographs of celebrities sprawled across a chaise longue.

First the OMG BLACK MAN AS SCARY KING KONG MAN Vogue cover, and now this! I really hope she comes up with something equally passive aggressive and self-referential for her next spread.

Maybe a pictoral of TomKat with allusions to Hitler and Eva Braun.

homophile

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Actually Doucebag Donnie Deutch--he of the silver rug and occasionally resurfacing outerborough accent--has it right--it's all about marketing the brand and transitioning the kid from kid to tramp. So Annie is the pedophile? Or Graydon? Or the kid's parents?

annasballs

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> "Grooming"? Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but roofies are faster and easier, and you always know they're working.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I don't think you could consider someone who is attracted to the 15-year-old Miss Cyrus a pedophile. A pervert, sure. Or Jerry Lee Lewis.

Sarcastro

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Are these guys doing anything that the "Hannah Montana" crew aren't already doing? Apart from the nekkidness of course.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> @toomuchawesome: "...and it's like totally different than if I guy photographer had looked at me that way. C'mon, Annie is a girl! Of course she doesn't look at me that way! Duh!"

naboo

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I honestly don't think the picture is that bad. She looks gorgeous and her internet shots are much racier in my humble opinion.

tudobem

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> I am more revolted by Miley Cyrus referring to Annie Leibovitz as "Annie" than I am by the photograph itself.

the Librarian

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> Is that a white rabbit in the background?

zequ

]]> <![CDATA[How Vanity Fair "Groomed" Miley Cyrus]]> "The magazine refers to the 'topless but demure portrait' as Leibovitz's idea and quotes Cyrus as saying, 'It wasn't in a skanky way ... And you can't say no to Annie. She's so cute. She gets this puppy dog look and you're like, 'O.K.''"

Uh huh.

tylercoates

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