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.