OMG!!! HOW COULD SHE?!?!?

What’s wrong with you America?
How many times do I have to watch you act shocked at an event in your culture that you work SO HARD to nourish?

Miley Cyrus.

Yup, ole’ Hannah Montana is the latest “HOW COULD SHE?!?!?” moment du jour.
You see, Miley, at the tender age of 15 to us “grown folk”, has taken it upon herself to pose topless, covered only by a satin sheet for Vanity Fair Magazine. This has apparently thrown America through quite a loop. America can’t understand how this could have happened. How could sweet innocent Miley have done such a horrendous thing?!?
I’m mean, so what if she’s surrounded by an entertainment industry who has glorified the likes of Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, and Britney Spears with all their sexual and drug induced hijinks. Doesn’t she know how wrong it all is?
We have no hand in this! We only keep watching time after time, after time…and again and again, because we feel “bad” about the status of their lives. We all want them to do better right? RIGHT?

Of course we don’t.

I personally couldn’t give a squirt of piss what happens to any of the above. But see, I’ll tell you that openly, and that makes me a bad person. I’ll tell you that I see them for what they are…Trash With Cash. And I’ll honestly tell you that I don’t expect any more of them than I do drug addicts that I personally know. Or whores who have not a single ounce of morality running through their veins.
I know that a duck quacks like a duck no matter how much money it has to spend.
And I’ll tell you that without excuses.
But that makes me a bad person too.

What? No, I’m not likening Miley to that…..yet.
See, Miley Cyrus is a product of her environment. She has no idea what the line is before she crosses it, because we (America) have blurred the lines beyond belief. We accept people “expressing their sexuality”, (isn’t that what we started calling it in the 90’s…wasn’t that the write off for ANY deviant behavior...”expressing our sexuality”?) Point being, we accept this. It’s part of our culture now.
We, all the time, watch women flaunt their goods in scant clothing, or tongue kiss other women, or I know, I know…how ‘bout the ole’ “Oops I’m not wearing any panties and I’m getting out of a car” gimmick? “Look, see how I’m getting out of this car right here?!?!? See how OOOPEN my legs accidentally are?!?!? Do you see…..HEY, I’M TALKING TO YOU!!!!”

Yeah, we LOVE that one. And it’s amazing how many young female celebrities forget to put on underwear, and THEN forget that all those people surrounding their car are taking pictures too! Must be all those flashes going off that diverts their attention, huh?

But back to business….why do you think it is that we have a publication like Vanity Fair that’s willing to put a topless 15 year old girl in their magazine?
Well?
Nothing?
Let’s try it this way….*Queue the Jeopardy theme*
”I’ll take Cultures That Have Little To No Morals, for $200 Alex.”
“This culture with little to no morals contains a popular magazine that KNOWS dancing along the lines of child pornography will not only NOT result in the destruction of their empire, but more than likely INCREASE sales.”
“What is Vanity Fair?”

What is Vanity Fair, indeed.
So, Vanity Fair will go on to sell more copies, Miley Cyrus will go on to become more of a household name, and America will wait for it’s newest opportunity to feign shock when the next young girl who’s learned that exposing parts of her body will propel her career, makes her , very calculated “mistake”.
And I will sit here in amazement that people even bother continuing to play this game.
This IS your culture America…this is what you work so hard to construct…it’s your God complex. You hand craft an environment that’s geared around sex and then you set the rules in opposition. When one falters, you smite the sinner.
Only your vengeance is fraudulent. You secretly admire the sinner. You covet their life and all that goes with it.

Miley Cyrus has been conditioned by you. She’s seen how it’s worked for all those who came before her. She’s been told by all of you that her body is her selling point. That no matter how much success she attains through her show and her music career, her body still remains the Holy Grail. It’s the atomic bomb in her arsenal of career maneuvers.
You taught her that, America.

Now stop acting so shocked and let’s all get back to our fiddles, Nero!