Letters to the Editor
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brother..
yeah, Brightstar, possibly you have a point of some sort (although what it is I'm not entirely certain), but let's not forget: She's 15 years old! And that's the real point. Making a 15-year-old look like a "mature, sexy woman"--if indeed you feel that way--is creepy no matter how you look at it.
What came up for me is how our society is teaching girls ever more extreme attitudes about sexuality, and one of its goals: hooking a male.
the whole point of being a tease is that you don't deliver the goods until you have the male firmly on the hook. I won't say that's the ONLY point of being a tease, but it's one of the meta-points, shall we say?
A teenage girl's entire value system is often wrapped up in being attractive enough to the boys to snare a likely one, without giving it up. These NY girls reacted the way they did because Cyrus crossed one of those microscopic lines: she is, metaphorically, giving up the goods without snagging the male first. Or, she's giving up the goods to snag the male.
Either way, she went against the Code.
At least, that's how I read it. Very interesting stuff in any case. Makes me glad I'm 50. Experience does have its advantages.
I'll be interested to read the women's side of this, since, in the end, we males probably don't have any real insight into this stuff, do we?