Good
virginal gods: everyone is all abuzz and atwitter about Annie Leibovitz’ “scandalous” Vanity Fair photos of Miley
Cyrus, aka Hannah Montana. She looks naked! She looks like a vampire! She’s
wrapped in expensive cloth, or a paper napkin—no one is quite sure! And then
there are the lounging, cover-of-a-romance-novel shots with Miley and her
father, Billy
Ray Cyrus. No one’s been this disturbed since he mulleted his way to
stardom with “Achy Breaky Heart.”
But why isn’t anyone
throwing a teenaged tizzy fit over the recent NYMag cover, featuring the Gossip
Girl cast lounging in a post-orgy-like photo session? Taylor Momsen (top left, on the cover), who
plays Jenny on the hit CW show, is a mere fourteen
years old. That’s right, she’s younger than Miley…and wearing a see-through
white tank top, bra visible beneath, while clearly inviting the entire world to
imagine her thrashing about with all the other hot young things on those
pristine white sheets.
Honestly, sometimes a
blogger can get overwhelmed by the amount of blog-shit out there. Can we all
calm down? Can we all try to curb our instincts to dress children like contestants on the Flavor of Love? Can we realize maybe, just maybe, that the body can be beautiful, without being sexualized? Can we
shut up and save the polar bears?
No? Um. Okay, here: see
video of Miley and her dad at the Vanity
Fair photo shoot.
See the rest of the Vanity Fair outtakes
here.
