Julie Burchill: On Miley Cyrus

A FEW weeks before her 21st birthday, having broken records with the number of internet hits for her latest song and with an estimated net worth of £100million, you could forgive Miley Cyrus for looking just a little bit pleased with herself.

At the MTV EMA awards she twerked her perfect buttocks in the hands of a beautiful female dwarf dancer and lit an all-but-legal jazz fag onstage after winning the Best Video award for Wrecking Ball.

And the wailing and gnashing of teeth became a deafening chorus as millions of poorer, older, plainer people cried: “Oh, Miley — where did it all go WRONG?!”

Let’s get this straight.

I’ve been a feminist since the age of 12, when I shoplifted The Female Eunuch.

But whenever I hear the “concerned” caterwauling about how Miley Cyrus is a suitable case for treatment, I reach for my giant foam finger and stick my tongue out.

Miley is currently the target — like she cares! — of a mass hysteria based mainly on sexism...

The Sun.

Been a long time since Julie Burchill has written something I agree with.
So bored with this new wave of anti-sex hysteria.
Posh girls from Roedean claiming being a feminist means banning stuff seem to get a shoo-in at The Guardian and The Independent these days.
"Sex is sexist! Ban porn, Page 3 and lads' mags, okay yah!"

Anyway, this book >>> which I bought with cash money when I was 16 and didn't nick, made me want to become a journalist.

And the rest is misery.

PS Brendan O'Neill on the daft Rewind And Reframe campaign against sexist videos.