Comments on: On Miley Cyrus and Co-Opted Sexuality http://www.kellydiels.com/2009/08/18/on-miley-cyrus-and-co-opted-sexuality/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-miley-cyrus-and-co-opted-sexuality Cleavage is about the three things everyone wants more of: sex, money and meaning. Kelly Diels is writing through the lines that shape us. Thu, 17 May 2012 07:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Kelly Diels http://www.kellydiels.com/2009/08/18/on-miley-cyrus-and-co-opted-sexuality/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Kelly Diels Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:46:53 +0000 http://www.violetminded.com/test/index.php/2009/08/on-miley-cyrus-and-co-opted-sexuality/#comment-204 Hi Beth. Thanks so much for your comment. We are totally on the same page: I'm worrying about all of these things and I think we, as society, are constructing and enforcing a kind of body fascism in which no woman, at any time, measures up. Oh you're too thin. Oh you're too fat. Oh you're too busty. Oh you should exercise (for your health, doncha know). Oh you're obsessed with exercising and now you're veiny and scary. Oh you're not busty enough. Oh you're ashamed of your body. Oh you're flaunting your assets. There is no winning this game so I think we should change the rules. Like yesterday.<br /><br />I kind of paused, too, to accept your praise. Because umm in the post that precedes this one, I kinda sorta encourage ogling/gossiping about my breasts and is apropos of nothing except meandering, experimental, let-the-prose-take-you-where-it-goes (but don't take it TOO seriously)journey. So maybe now you take back all your kind words as I am complicit in tending this breast obsessed landscape. But please come back and say so :) Hi Beth. Thanks so much for your comment. We are totally on the same page: I’m worrying about all of these things and I think we, as society, are constructing and enforcing a kind of body fascism in which no woman, at any time, measures up. Oh you’re too thin. Oh you’re too fat. Oh you’re too busty. Oh you should exercise (for your health, doncha know). Oh you’re obsessed with exercising and now you’re veiny and scary. Oh you’re not busty enough. Oh you’re ashamed of your body. Oh you’re flaunting your assets. There is no winning this game so I think we should change the rules. Like yesterday.

I kind of paused, too, to accept your praise. Because umm in the post that precedes this one, I kinda sorta encourage ogling/gossiping about my breasts and is apropos of nothing except meandering, experimental, let-the-prose-take-you-where-it-goes (but don’t take it TOO seriously)journey. So maybe now you take back all your kind words as I am complicit in tending this breast obsessed landscape. But please come back and say so :)

]]> By: Beth L. Gainer http://www.kellydiels.com/2009/08/18/on-miley-cyrus-and-co-opted-sexuality/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Beth L. Gainer Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:24:54 +0000 http://www.violetminded.com/test/index.php/2009/08/on-miley-cyrus-and-co-opted-sexuality/#comment-203 Hi Kelly,<br /><br />Saw Josh H's Twitter about you being a terrific writer, so I thought I'd check you out, and he was right!!<br /><br />Anyway, I agree that Miley Cyrus is being exploited by her father, and all the other Hollywood powers-that-be. And it is sad.<br /><br />The problem is that we live in a society that demeans women. We see so many comments on weight, boobs, and everything else to objectify women, but there's an imbalance in that we don't see the same issues regarding men. The result is a society where girls are anorexic or bulemic, etc.<br /><br />Like you, I am very comfortable in my body. As a breast cancer survivor who has had a double mastectomy with reconstruction, I have become very aware of how we live in such a breast-obsessed landscape. <br /><br />It's great to be proud of one's breasts and to be openly proud of them. But it's another to gossip about who has the perkiest breasts.<br /><br />Women are objectified in so many aspects of our society; that's why Miley Cyrus is now, too, being objectified. She's only 16 and doesn't know what the hell she's doing. When I was sixteen I was clueless.<br /><br />Anyway, just wanted to vent. Your writing style and posting are excellent!! Hi Kelly,

Saw Josh H’s Twitter about you being a terrific writer, so I thought I’d check you out, and he was right!!

Anyway, I agree that Miley Cyrus is being exploited by her father, and all the other Hollywood powers-that-be. And it is sad.

The problem is that we live in a society that demeans women. We see so many comments on weight, boobs, and everything else to objectify women, but there’s an imbalance in that we don’t see the same issues regarding men. The result is a society where girls are anorexic or bulemic, etc.

Like you, I am very comfortable in my body. As a breast cancer survivor who has had a double mastectomy with reconstruction, I have become very aware of how we live in such a breast-obsessed landscape.

It’s great to be proud of one’s breasts and to be openly proud of them. But it’s another to gossip about who has the perkiest breasts.

Women are objectified in so many aspects of our society; that’s why Miley Cyrus is now, too, being objectified. She’s only 16 and doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing. When I was sixteen I was clueless.

Anyway, just wanted to vent. Your writing style and posting are excellent!!

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