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Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:00 AM

Miley Cyrus: Too young for "hooker boots"?

The teen is stirring controversy with another raunchy photo shoot
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Thursday, July 9, 2009 03:29 PM

    You're pinning the hypocrisy on the wrong population.

    Her family and especially her father should probably stop pretending she's an entirely unthreatening cookies and cream picture of homespun Americana if they don't want to spark controversy when she takes explicitly sexualized photos.

    She gets shit over it for the same reason Britney Spears did in her early years. It's fucking absurd to pretend these girls are whitewashed scions of mostly purity to comfort Red State parents and hawk them as sex symbols at the same time.

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