Ebony and irony

Actually, please DO put your racist tendencies front and center when you're online dating - it will deter non racists from wasting even a single second of their time pursuing a connection with someone who is completely incompatible, while also attracting the interests of fellow bigots - taking them out of the dating…

I like how the dog izall 'wow are you stupid' and struts off.

Regardless of whether the performance was "out of control and racist," this is how many school-aged children behave. Her target audience (any pop artist's target audience) - 14-24 year olds who incidently love to annoy their parents with questionable behavior. Cyrus will surely reap the words for this calculated…

Okay. Well, I'm not running around appropriating cultures left and right, so there's that? You're being kind of rude for no reason.

Surprise! I'm 22! Never acted like that. Still don't act like that.

YES to everything you said. To be a fly on the wall in MTV-land; "So Miley's really into twerking, hip hop, and trendy fashion, let's do something with that.

She literally cannot dance at all. Much less twerk. But since she is the only super visible White woman who loves to twerk, all the "ghetto" "ratchet" "slutty" Black women better step aside for Queen Miley.

That means a lot coming from you! I've noticed lately that people have been trying to link Trayvon's purchase of the Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea as evidence that he was planning on making and selling 'sizzurp'.

Yes! How the fuck can she (or anyone else) dare call her the "Queen" of something she can't even do well!? I could type twerking in the YouTube search bar and the first video would be of a black woman who could blow her out of the water, but that woman would just be ignored and call a ho.

Yes. I have zero issue with what MC did with her own body (rubbing her crotch with the foam finger, grinding on Robin Thicke) except to think that it was kinda dumb. But I take huge issue with what she did to other women's bodies. She gets to be the lithe, "in shape," petite White woman while the…

Perfect point in your last paragraph. Really, spot on.

It is profoundly typical that the media ignores the dancers as exotic bodies trope and the response is zomg slut-shaming (ignores the trope as well).

Yes! I read that post late last night. That display last night pushed me over the edge in my feeling about Miley. The sexy clothes, grinding against Thicke, even that damn tougue lashing is seriously not what bothered me. Those are all matters of taste which mean different things to everyone.

EXACTLY. And when I went to MTV's website to see the video of her (I didn't watch live), there was a big banner proclaiming her the "Queen of Twerking." No, just no.

Basically, those people are wrong and slut shaming is wrong. I agree with you that it's happening and, although I'm firmly in the anti-Miley camp right now due to the appropriation issues, she doesn't deserve to be criticized for wearing provocative clothing or making sexual gestures. She deserves to be criticized for…

Agreed 100%. I do not give one shit whether Miley is wearing a thong or a parka, or if she's grinding on a dude or joining a convent; it's the ridiculous minstrel show (as BurtReynoldsIsMySpiritGuide put it last night) that's sending me over the edge into the "do not like" camp. She flat out smacked a black woman's…

Being annoyed about that tongue crap is not slut-shaming... it's just bloody annoying.

So pretending to lick the ass of Black woman with the sterotypical "big bootie" and slapping said bootie (repeatedly) in front of millions of people is somehow ok? I don't care if Beyonce/Rihanna/Michelle Obama/Oprah/Kerry Washington/Mother Theresa did it—-It's. Not. Ok.

Agreed; It was the lack of any talent that made the whole thing a fucking mess. Also, I don't really care how sexy her clothing is, just get the right fit girl! It was just a whole lot of What-the-fucks.