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sjd2008 -> RE: Should Christian Entertainers Have High Moral Standards? (RE: Miley Cyrus and Others) (5/3/2008 10:15:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: gaylel1
Let me ask all of you this--if Miley Cyrus was your daughter who done this kind of thing, would you be outraged at the photos? I becha of course some of you would because you would be protesting and calling the various talk shows showing your outrage of this.
I'm really suprized that the Christian community is not taking a stand on this, given some of the opinion thinking that she or her parents should not be judged because of what she did. And I do understand that.
But my concern is that if a girl see these pictures, she would say, "Well if Miley did it, I can do it too." So in other words, the girl would have given licence to sin w/o the consequences. I believe that what Miley and her parents were led to thinking. You see, when you are in the faith especially, there are consequenses to actions, and especially for bibical christians.
As a result of this though, I think it will be a backlash aganist her and Disney especially because people with moral values do not do this stuff. Miley just got caught because she felt that she can be tempted, but she has to live with the consequence.
First, if I had a 15 year old daughter, I would have no problem with her posing like that.
I work in a High School. What some of these girls wear to the school makes Miley look like a nun. So, I don't think that many will see Miley's photos as permission to do much of anything.
As I have said before. Miley can't be Hannah Montana forever. At some point she has to make a break and change her career path. I suspect that a lot of the comments coming from Disney have the same validity of the famous Claude Rains line from Casablanca "I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on here". IOW, I suspect that everyone involved knew that the photos would be edgy. Annie Liebowitz is well known in photography and publishing circles for doing unique work that is "out there".
I don't however, see her going down the same path as Britney.Unlike Britney, her family is already involved in the music industry and is already used to the money and fame that it brings. Britney on the other hand, did not come from a show biz family therefore, neither her not her family wre ready for the shock of being a star.
Finally, I really don't believe that she has committed a sin. I realize that some of you are scandalized by what she has done and really don't agree with me. That is fine. IMHO, what she is guilty of is shocking the sensibilities of some of her fans and I'm not so sure that is a sin. I also realize that some of you feel that the pose is sensual or has sexual overtones. Whatever the original intent of the photographer was we really don't know. No one has quoted the photographer as saying that her message was to sexualize a 15 year old girl. So, as a result the best that we can do is guess at her intentions. For those of you who say that "all you need to do is look at the photo and you'll see her intention." I heartily disagree. When someone looks at an image they look at the image through the filter of their own experiences, prejudices, and views. What you see may NOT be what the artist/photographer wanted to communicate. Actually, I have seen that almost identical pose in several different works dating back several hundred years. It is considered a classic pose.
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