As she matures, she’ll likely be able to hang on to her younger “Hannah Montana” fans while she vies for the attention of a new audience of masturbation enthusiasts.

So very, very true, and so very, very sad. We've become a nation of wankers.

“Since Broadsheet first wrote about it on Monday”

So, after discussing the performance, you’re now upset that people are discussing the performance? Doesn’t it seem a tad unfair to get worked up about something you helped create?

Broadsheet: our complete lack of self-awareness is only surpassed by our tone of perpetual outrage.

Maybe she could of called it "Party in Your Pants."

It was a dance, nothing sexual or strip-clubbish about it. God bless her, but she's not any kind of sex symbol, just a pre-teen with a nice wig. I am not getting the outrage. Slow news day?

Which is one of the most harmless and innocuous things ever, is rated Y7. America is a country that's doomed because Americans are terrified of half of everything and angry at the rest. Pole dancing? Holy moly Molly, pull the minivans in a circle and slap a bible plated bike helmet on the chilluns!

When she shoot a pingpong ball out her hoohah THEN give me a call about indecency. Until then you half-faggots need to curl up in a ball.

Wha??...nah....I just can't say it.

You know it is actually NORMAL for girls to grow up, even when they are younger than you.

I'd have thought this was pretty well known by now.

her performance will seem prudish one day.

As far as Ms. Williams "tranny hookers," although I've never seen one, I suspect that most hookers, whatever their gender or sexuality, didn't aspire, when they were young, to be what they've become. For Ms. Williams to use such people as a comic device is shameful and suggests an underdeveloped sensitivity to the intersection of class, gender, and sexuality.

Occasionally, you post something compelling...and then you have to go and post something so repugnant that I wish you'd get some help: you've got a gutful of rage.

I know this is shocking. I have one, and despite my best efforts at trying to keep her focused on Beanie Babies and anything possibly infantalizing, she's moved on to other ideas.

Do we really give a flying crap about this? This is important? Or do we make it so with all of this second-wave feminist hand-wringing prude crap?

The sooner we accept that children are horny little devils just about the minute they hit puberty (which, last I knew, was well before Cyrus' rather robust 16), the sooner we can have a REAL discussion about this and other silliness.

We magically expect girls to be angels until 18, and even then, they can only express themselves certain ways. What bollocks. Girls are busy trying to make boys (and girls) horny, and boys are busy jerking off every second nobody is looking.

This is life. Accept it.

Dancing has been immoral since it's inception, and as goes the nature of all things it keeps getting "worse" because pop culture needs to sell so it needs to take another step in the direction of shocking, inappropriate and generally something your parents are appalled by.

Ms. Cyrus may be too young or have a fanbase still too dependent on kids but she's a sex symbol, like it or not. And she is a sex symbol because any woman who wants to be famous is going to have to be one (unless there's some other gimmick going (I'm thinking Tilda Swinton or something) and being sexy is the easiest and most successful gimmick one can have).

And it's reasonable to lament that we've reached a point where women are REQUIRED to be attractive and appear easy on top of smart and talented (though those 2 things aren't really necessary) in order to achieve fame. Though that's a bigger conversation and probably for another time.

As for this... it was just dancing. And as long as dancing involves people moving their body to a rhythm it'll be sex.

"As she matures, she’ll likely be able to hang on to her younger “Hannah Montana” fans while she vies for the attention of a new audience of masturbation enthusiasts."

Note that her younger "Hannah Montana" fans form the old audience of masturbation enthusiasts. Who doesn't like masturbation?

Only jailers hate escapism...

And that's AVOIDING "what about the chiiiiiiildrennnn?" horror?

It's a mini skirt and heels. And, yeah, when I was in high school I woulnd't have let my bra strap show for all the WORLD and was freaked when Madonna popularized it... but I've gotten over it in the ensuing decades.

She was not dressed like a hooker. She was not doing a pole dance. Nice "slut shaming," Broadsheet. I'm waiting with bated breath for Tracy C-F to weigh in on her virginity.

he didn't do anything other than talk openly about sex

Ted Haggard anyone?

"while she vies for the attention of a new audience of masturbation enthusiasts."

I really don't feel like being judged right now.

Also, I watched the video, and all I could think was that we're going to have a great corn harvest next year...

You must have missed this: "Until then you half-faggots need to curl up in a ball."

You're welcome.

Stan: But Chef, when IS the right time for us to start having sex?

Chef: It's very simple, children; The right time to start having sex is...seventeen.

Kyle: Seventeen?

Chef: Seventeen.

Sheila: So, you mean seventeen as long as you're in love?

Chef: Nope, just seventeen.

Gerald: But what if you're not ready at seventeen?

Chef: Seventeen. You're ready.

"As far as Ms. Williams 'tranny hookers,' although I've never seen one, I suspect that most hookers, whatever their gender or sexuality, didn't aspire, when they were young, to be what they've become. For Ms. Williams to use such people as a comic device is shameful and suggests an underdeveloped sensitivity to the intersection of class, gender, and sexuality."

So much THIS.

We live in a world where a lot of transwomen are sex workers because people will not tolerate them anywhere else unless they can "pass" well enough to hide. It's a horrible state of affairs. Broadsheet should support ALL women, not use them as some kind of punchline. For shame.