While tears are a little extreme, my message is the same.
LEAVE MILEY ALONE.
God bless everyone who has written a blog post/ news article about Miley's behavior. I know y'all mean well, but seriously- what are you trying to change. Do you really think your open letter to Miley, or even better an open letter to your daughter about Miley is going to change her?
I tried to read this woman's letter and I just couldn't.
Here is a crazy concept, maybe Miley HATED being Hannah Montana and everything that came with it. MAYBE Miley enjoys jumping around mostly naked with a tongue that forgot where it belongs, and MAYBE it isn't any of your business.
Turn off the TV, stop buying sleazy magazines, and switch the radio. Pop culture has always been the same. You're trying to tell me that if the Internet had existed during Madonna's Like A Virgin VMA performance people wouldn't have lost their minds as well? Destroying the institution of marriage, making a mockery of religion, etc. etc.
Welcome to the New World.
I will say that I don't agree with what Miley is doing. I think it is all sorts of crazy and makes her look a bit desperate for attention. But just an FYI to the general public, she is an adult and is no longer controlled by Disney and is performing the way she chooses.
I know that Miley is now the number 1 poster child for who American parents DON'T want their kid to be, and it is sooo easy for us to watch her go down the crazy slide and chastise her, but is that helping anyone?
If you're afraid of your daughter growing up in a world where Miley is a role model then you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself.
1.) You're daughter is growing up in a world where Miley is a role model. Little girls who knew her as Hannah Montana will always idolize her, and teenage girls who see her living her life they way she wants to will be jealous her. Not all, mind you, but enough. So, stop trying to fight it, it's here.
2.) And if Miley is the role model for girls aged 9-16, make the best of it. Seriously.
2a.) Miley chose to forgo traditional feminine beauty and get a short, fun, edgy, sexy haircut. Guess how many girls don't want long hair, or think that long hair is synonymous with pretty. Thank Miley for showing your daughter that your outward appearance can be bold, it can be nontraditional, and it can be beautiful.
2b.) Miley has come out of the Disney shadow and made a name, and a life for herself. Would I encourage you to encourage your daughter to do things the way she did... no. But you can encourage your daughter to be brave. To step out of the shadow she doesn't want to be under and to push aside the fear and become her own little person.
2c.) Miley's daddy still loves her. And someday your daughter might become her own little person and not at all the person you had hoped. Maybe she will never, ever, EVER want to wear a dress, anything sparkly, or understand how to put on eye makeup. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will die her hair blue and pierce her face and rip up the clothes you buy for her. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will chose a hard life, a life of service, poverty, forgoing all of life's comforts you worked so hard to provide for her, but she will be living a life that she feels is fulfilling. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will love another girl, have a baby out of wedlock, drop out of college, date a total loser, have an eating disorder, enjoy having casual sex, stop going to church. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will run the world someday. Maybe your daughter will cure cancer. Maybe your daughter will find world peace. Maybe your daughter will end world hunger. And it will be because you loved her.
3.) Teach your daughter about love, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and the beautiful act of being non-judgmental through Miley.
Teach your daughter to love the "lost" girls, and to love herself when she too, is lost. Teach your daughter not to label someone a slut because they do something that society says is deviant. Teach your daughter that her sins are just as ugly, and to not think she is better than Miley because she "doesn't do those things." Teach your daughter to befriend the girl who seems a little desperate for attention, not be the first to throw the stone at her. Teach your daughter how to be a woman.
And maybe, if we all teach our daughters that, we can all learn something ourselves and girls like Miley will be just fine.
I tried to read this woman's letter and I just couldn't.
Here is a crazy concept, maybe Miley HATED being Hannah Montana and everything that came with it. MAYBE Miley enjoys jumping around mostly naked with a tongue that forgot where it belongs, and MAYBE it isn't any of your business.
Turn off the TV, stop buying sleazy magazines, and switch the radio. Pop culture has always been the same. You're trying to tell me that if the Internet had existed during Madonna's Like A Virgin VMA performance people wouldn't have lost their minds as well? Destroying the institution of marriage, making a mockery of religion, etc. etc.
Welcome to the New World.
I will say that I don't agree with what Miley is doing. I think it is all sorts of crazy and makes her look a bit desperate for attention. But just an FYI to the general public, she is an adult and is no longer controlled by Disney and is performing the way she chooses.
I know that Miley is now the number 1 poster child for who American parents DON'T want their kid to be, and it is sooo easy for us to watch her go down the crazy slide and chastise her, but is that helping anyone?
If you're afraid of your daughter growing up in a world where Miley is a role model then you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself.
1.) You're daughter is growing up in a world where Miley is a role model. Little girls who knew her as Hannah Montana will always idolize her, and teenage girls who see her living her life they way she wants to will be jealous her. Not all, mind you, but enough. So, stop trying to fight it, it's here.
2.) And if Miley is the role model for girls aged 9-16, make the best of it. Seriously.
2a.) Miley chose to forgo traditional feminine beauty and get a short, fun, edgy, sexy haircut. Guess how many girls don't want long hair, or think that long hair is synonymous with pretty. Thank Miley for showing your daughter that your outward appearance can be bold, it can be nontraditional, and it can be beautiful.
2b.) Miley has come out of the Disney shadow and made a name, and a life for herself. Would I encourage you to encourage your daughter to do things the way she did... no. But you can encourage your daughter to be brave. To step out of the shadow she doesn't want to be under and to push aside the fear and become her own little person.
2c.) Miley's daddy still loves her. And someday your daughter might become her own little person and not at all the person you had hoped. Maybe she will never, ever, EVER want to wear a dress, anything sparkly, or understand how to put on eye makeup. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will die her hair blue and pierce her face and rip up the clothes you buy for her. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will chose a hard life, a life of service, poverty, forgoing all of life's comforts you worked so hard to provide for her, but she will be living a life that she feels is fulfilling. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will love another girl, have a baby out of wedlock, drop out of college, date a total loser, have an eating disorder, enjoy having casual sex, stop going to church. And you will still love her. Maybe your daughter will run the world someday. Maybe your daughter will cure cancer. Maybe your daughter will find world peace. Maybe your daughter will end world hunger. And it will be because you loved her.
3.) Teach your daughter about love, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and the beautiful act of being non-judgmental through Miley.
Teach your daughter to love the "lost" girls, and to love herself when she too, is lost. Teach your daughter not to label someone a slut because they do something that society says is deviant. Teach your daughter that her sins are just as ugly, and to not think she is better than Miley because she "doesn't do those things." Teach your daughter to befriend the girl who seems a little desperate for attention, not be the first to throw the stone at her. Teach your daughter how to be a woman.
And maybe, if we all teach our daughters that, we can all learn something ourselves and girls like Miley will be just fine.
