In Case You Missed It, @MileyCyrus Got Super-Skanky on the VMAs Last Night
Posted on | August 26, 2013 | 217 Comments
Of course, I didn’t watch MTV’s Video Music Awards, but the morning news shows were running . . . er, highlights of her performance, from which I gather that the name of her latest hit song is, “Do Me in the Butt, Total Stranger, Because I Need Money to Get Me Some Meth.”
OK, I’m hat-tipping Ace of Spades for that joke, because that’s what Ace would have said circa 2006, before he got all “respectable” and stuff. The inspiration lives on. Anyway . . .
How skanky was Miley Cyrus last night? Mika Brzezinksi felt the need to condemn it as “disturbing,” because Mika would never let a total stranger do her in the butt, not even if she needed some meth.
Mika’s not working on a Masters degree in Gender Studies, however, and doesn’t understand how 21st-century pro-sex feminism regards this whole “do me in the butt” thing as empowerment.
I have no idea why throwing bodyshaming/slutshaming at Miley is being allowed a free pass. It's the propagation of heteropatriarchal crap.
— andria (@andria_xx) August 26, 2013
Da Tech Guy has some relevant thoughts, none of which involve the phrase “do me in the butt,” for which I’m sure you’re grateful.
UPDATE: Can I pick ’em, or what?
@rsmccain publishing my personal information isn't "talking back" it's intimidation and harassment
— andria (@andria_xx) August 26, 2013
Apparently, linking to the “about” page on @Andria_XX‘s blog constitutes harassment. The real problem, however, is that when you’re living inside an intellectual cocoon — and if a graduate program in Gender Studies doesn’t fit that description, what does? — you’re not accustomed to being directly criticized, let alone ridiculed as a nincompoop, and you may actually forget that the secondhand radical ideology you’re being spoon-fed is controversial out in the real world.
@vjmfilms I'm reminded of the topless "SlutWalk" protester who got angry at me for writing about her nipples.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) August 26, 2013
UPDATE II: Aannnnddd she just switched her account to protected status, an experience which I’m sure she’ll blame on the patriarchy.
UPDATE III: Blame where blame is due:
Feminist parody? @andria_xx: "Stop propagating heteropatriachal crap, haters!" https://t.co/9FQeKuReWv | @ZillaStevenson @SooperMexican
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) August 26, 2013
Honestly, @andria_xx, I prefer to think of it as "dumb-shaming." http://t.co/BJUjnjVAxq #tcot
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) August 26, 2013
Hats off to SooperMexican, who spotted Andria’s Tweet, and to Zilla Stevenson who realized I needed to see it, and I think there was An Army of Heteropatriarchal Davids who spontaneously decided that Andria deserved Dumbest Person on Twitter recognition.
Why do I suspect I've just inspired a Master's thesis on "Heteropatriachal Aggression in Social Media"? http://t.co/BJUjnjVAxq @andria_xx
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) August 26, 2013
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217 Responses to “In Case You Missed It, @MileyCyrus Got Super-Skanky on the VMAs Last Night”
August 27th, 2013 @ 10:08 pm
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August 28th, 2013 @ 1:16 am
in other words, a liberal…
August 28th, 2013 @ 1:17 am
APA says Cyrus is normal… đ
August 28th, 2013 @ 1:20 am
Feminism is unfortunately a word that has lost meaning
August 28th, 2013 @ 1:23 am
a completely fallen apart society is a normal variation of society, says the APA
August 28th, 2013 @ 1:30 am
trans-grey… then
that sounds odd… đ
August 28th, 2013 @ 1:33 am
The problem isn’t all of feminism, it’s what it’s degenerated into today, an ugly, perverted shadow of former selves
August 28th, 2013 @ 8:06 am
That was an innuendo. đ
August 28th, 2013 @ 2:37 pm
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August 29th, 2013 @ 9:54 am
Miley Cyrus should probably stay out of North Korea…
August 30th, 2013 @ 8:09 pm
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August 30th, 2013 @ 9:22 pm
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August 31st, 2013 @ 1:54 am
No, to her brother Mike
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