I tried my hardest NOT to watch the Video Music Awards, but after my entire Facebook newsfeed was filled with rants and pictures of Miley Cyrus, I watched it. Ok, I will agree, not her finest moment! BUT...I will also just add her to the list of the female performers that have shocked us throughout the years; Brittany, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and so on!
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| just doing what MTV expects... |
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| remember this hot mess???? |
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| Is this any better??? |
What I cannot understand is the crazy reaction from parents who feel like Miley has now harmed our daughters, or ruined our kids lives. This was a performance on MTV. It was for adult viewers, not on a kids channel. And as history has shown...nothing on MTV is PG or G rated!!! This appearance actually got more attention from social media and from US! We posted picture after picture on Facebook and Twitter, where our pre-teen kids spend more time than they should! Now, this doesn't offend me, it doesn't worry me, my son who is 10 did not watch this, he does not go on Facebook or twitter, he has a block on his TV so MTV is off limits. BUT...let me tell you what the real harm on TV is:
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| my son sees this commercial everywhere!!! |
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| because fast food is cool & sexy????? |
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| this is poison with a cheap toy! |
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| so terrible and loaded with sugar! |
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| not something we need to feed our kids...sugar & GMOs |
There are millions of advertisements on TV for food...and not food our kids (or adults) should be eating! I have never actually counted how many times a McDonalds commercial comes on during a one hour show, but it is a lot! And why does every kids movie end up on a Happy Meal?? And how often do we see Pepsi, Coke, hotdogs, Lays chips, sugar cereals, cookies, or Sonic on TV...you see where I am going with this, right??
The most harmful thing on TV is not celebrity making a silly performance, it is the food industry! It is the major advertisement deals celebrities get (Beyonce received millions from Pepsi), it is the athletes who tell our kids to drink Gatorade (even though it is filled with nasty chemicals) or to eat at Subway, it is their favorite cartoon characters on sugary cereal boxes.
The most offensive, harmful, and disturbing thing on TV are the food advertisements, not a 6 minute performance by Miley (on a show kids shouldn't be watching)! That's what should piss us off! That's what we should be flooding social media with!!! If parents threw this kind of fit about food advertisements, GMOs, and the quality of our food, as they did over Miley...we could change our kids lives! Instead we focus on the wrong thing. We focus on a twenty year old performer, acting like a (wild) twenty year old performer. Maybe it wasn't classy, maybe it was not something you enjoyed, but if THAT is what you are bothered by when you watch TV...then you are ignoring the real harm or just not paying attention! I was more offended by Beyonce's Pepsi commercial getting played over and over again, selling poison to the people!
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