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OP ED » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:15 am wrote:i really just didn't understand very much of that. and i mean this in the grammatical sense not the philosophical.

maybe time for a nap.

do however give a fuck about the message it sends and as per the OP to many people who do not have a choice yet in how they conduct themselves insofar as controlling what others think in order to FIT IN.

OP ED » Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:15 am wrote:i really just didn't understand very much of that. and i mean this in the grammatical sense not the philosophical.

nashvillebrook » Mon Sep 02, 2013 12:55 pm wrote:Haven't read every post in this 14-page thread...haven't spent any time on this "issue" -- but I'm kinda puzzled that so few people see this as a young woman's rebellion against sexuality imposed on her that she's rejecting. It seems fairly obvious to me, and it follows the path that many of my friends at that age followed. There's nothing "sexy" about it. It's the opposite of sex. It's a big FU to the whole culture that objectifies and expects a specific kind of sexuality.

I think it's a variety of "owning" sexuality, but it's not Madonna's "sex-positive" thing. It's like she's saying, "I don't like you. I'm not going to do what you say. And if you try to get all up in my shit, I've got a giant foam finger waiting for you."

It seems obvious to me.

http://blog.sfmoma.org/2013/09/stop-hat ... ley-cyrus/

Stop Hating on the Genius of Miley Cyrus
September 2, 2013 | By Chris Cobb
Filed under: Essay, Projects/Series

Most people don’t realize just how much Miley Cyrus has been suffocating under the international brand built by the Disney Corporation. Remember – they portrayed her as an innocent, apple pie-loving, American wonder child that could do no wrong.

They invested millions upon millions of dollars in that wholesome purity, in the middle class fantasy – that you can go anywhere in this country if you just roll up your sleeves and work hard.

That’s a lot of pressure to be putting on a little girl. Yet under Disney’s big black boot she didn’t even have a real name, just the brand name Hannah Montana, which was chosen because it rhymes.

In 2008, her TV series had a global audience of 200 million viewers. According to the Daily Dispatch: by February 2008, the Hannah Montana franchise had become so important that Disney convened an “80-person, all-platform international meeting to discuss Hannah Montana’s future.” All Disney business segments were represented at the meeting.

For years they had her touring around the country with a band, playing music she didn’t even write (Miley Cyrus is no Taylor Swift!). All along the way she was fawned over and guided by her horrible-in-every-way country music star father, Billy Ray Cyrus. Then, like other young women who have been forced to sacrifice their childhoods for early fame, she faced an identity crisis.

And let’s face it, Disney didn’t want to sexualize their child star too much, since advertisers wouldn’t go for it and it would contaminate the image they’d created. Besides, did anybody really want to see a burned-out, drug addicted 35 year old Hannah Montana? O.K. maybe some people might have – but my point is that her fans were growing up too, and her very future depended on retaining those fans and hopefully finding a way to get more.

To rebrand meant she could potentially become a genuine crossover act. Yet frustratingly, everyone still was associating her with the old brand – the tween child star. So what could she do?

Obviously she had to erase that association in the minds of her fans, many of whom dared not to think carnal thoughts about the young girl she portrayed as Hannah Montana. And it’s exactly for that reason she almost had to do what she did at the MTV Video Music Awards. Her dirty dancing and portrayal of sex acts on stage gave her fans permission to see her as a woman.

But while Miley who gets all the humiliation and public shaming, Robin Thicke, her bump-and-grind dance partner, is a married man and hardly got any criticism at all. He can be a horn dog and dirty dance with 20 year old Miley but it’s her that should be ashamed of what God gave her? Can we say double standard?

Remember – no matter how desperate, coked-up and slutty she appeared to be on stage, people should recall that she is an actress and it was just a performance. And really – if her goal was to change how people thought of her, it worked.

So even as the media freaked out at how she stuck her face in the rear end of an oversized teddy bear and seemed to like it, she was getting some extreme twitter love. Forbes said :“Cyrus’ performance spurred a massive wave of 306,100 tweets per minute.” Which totally crushed the VMA’s from last year. By comparison the Presidential election night last year saw a peak of 327,452 tweets per minute.

So in marketing terms that dirty dance was a success.

Least we forget – Miley Cyrus is also worth $150 million, so there’s a lot of peoples’ jobs riding on her being freak of the month.

Who knows – maybe that American myth is true after all – if you roll up your sleeves (or strip down to flesh-colored vinyl bra and camel toe panties) and work hard (get sweaty with dancing bears under hot stage lights), then anything really is possible.

Angry mob castrates Papua New Guinea’s cult leader ‘Black Jesus’
By Agence France-Presse | Monday, September 2, 2013 7:59 EDT

An infamous Papua New Guinea cult leader known as “Black Jesus” was castrated by an angry mob after being hacked to death for killing young girls as sacrifices, reports said Monday.

Steven Tari, a convicted rapist who was suspected of cannibalism, was killed in a remote PNG village last week, with gory details of his death emerging.

The National newspaper said he was hunted down by 80 men, killed, castrated and then dragged with a cane tied around his neck to a shallow pit where his body was dumped.

Tari had been on the run since escaping from a prison in Madang in the Pacific nation’s east during a mass break-out with 48 others in March.

His corpse was dug up by police, prison and health workers on Friday. Juith Gawi, a doctor at Modilion Hospital, said he had multiple knife wounds.

“He was chopped and slashed with bush knives on both arms and legs, chest and stomach which revealed his intestines. He was also castrated,” Gawi said.

Tari, a failed Lutheran pastor who was widely known as Black Jesus, was found guilty in 2010 of raping girls who belonged to his Christian-based sect and sentenced to up to 10 years.

At the time, he had thousands of village followers, including a core of armed warriors to protect him, in what is commonly referred to in PNG as a “cargo cult”.

As part of his “culture ministry”, he preached that young girls were to be “married” to him as it was God’s prophecy.

The National said villagers where he was hiding became fed up with cult beliefs and practices, which included “the killing of young girls as sacrifices”.

Local police official Ray Ban said Tari and his followers offered Rose Wagum, 15, last week as a “sacrifice”. She was found with stab wounds and reportedly died of blood loss.

The group also tried to offer another 14-year-old girl but were stopped by the mob which eventually killed Tari.

The National said Wagum’s aunt was the first known “flower girl” for Tari and found young virgins for him, and it was she who took her niece to his camp to be sacrificed.

Ban said at least one other girl was still missing.

“Tari is dead and this cult worship dies with him,” he said.

“Stop this worship now. If I hear any more cult worship here, I will return with my men.”

When he was captured in 2007, there were widespread allegations that Tari’s cult also practised cannibalism along with sacrificial blood rituals, but police only charged him with rape.

PNG is a sprawling nation where black magic, sorcery and cannibalism sometimes occur.

Last year police, also in the Madang region, arrested dozens of people linked to an alleged cannibal cult accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises.

There have been several other recent cases linked to cults, witchcraft and cannibalism, with a man in 2011 reportedly found eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony.

In 2009, a young woman was stripped naked, gagged and burnt alive at the stake in the Highlands town of Mount Hagen.

And two years earlier police clashed with members of a cult suspected of human sacrifices in the remote province of Morobe.

In that incident, police were investigating reports of several murders in which people were decapitated, with their heads impaled on stakes and paraded around.

divideandconquer » Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:49 pm wrote:Oh please, you really think Miley Cyrus is behind any of this? Really? She's a pawn, that's all. Just like all the rest of the Hollywood sex kittens. Comparing Marilyn Manson and Miley Cyrus is like comparing walnuts to ball-nuts. Little girls are not watching Marilyn Manson.

You do know that Hollywood is the propaganda arm of the military industrial complex, right?

You do know that Hollywood is the propaganda arm of the military industrial complex, right? So yeah, what comes out of Hollywood is very much connected to the agenda of the MIC/RMA/whateverthefuck.

Yesterday, it was Elvis hips...today, it's a little girl's "idol" all grown up sniffing the but of a giant negro woman with a giant menstrual blood soaked foam finger...tomorrow, it's the little girl's idol not all grown up licking the ass of a giant negro woman with a real menstrual blood soaked finger . They want easily managed, degraded and perverted simpletons, and apparently they've succeeded.