You'd think at some point you would get over yourselves

“The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful."- Annie Leibowitz

Here's somebody's 15 yr old daughter...



And here's somebody's 15 yr old daughter...





And here is somebody's 15 yr old daughter...




Guess which picture I would rather have of my daughter?

You know, I've read the arguments for and against the picture, and on both sides the problem is that all of you people seem to think this picture is sexy. This picture is not sexy. This picture is beautiful. It's probably one of the few pictures taken of her where she can actually look at it 30 years from now and not be ashamed of it. The saddening fact to emerge from this barnfire is that America's adults are no longer capable of looking at 15 yr old girls without thinking about sex. All of you, feminists and chauvinists alike. This is a classical pose, and because of that, because of the purity of the image, its not fucking masturbation material. And I think the people who masturbate would agree. All the people I know who would normally find teenage girls hot agree with me. It's not hot. It's not trampy. It makes her look fifteen.

Here's an editorial I agree with
Trash Talkin Miley...

"At least Cyrus isn't trussed up in Bratz-like skankwear, the kind so many little girls want to wear on Halloween."

Your real battle here is with Disney, and American parents. Don't extend that to art, that path leads to censorship and book burning and all kinds of things you're so outraged about when it involves Catcher In The Rye and Lady Chatterly's Lover.

Lastly, let me say this. Annie Leibowitz is an American genius, and she is an artist. The idea that we can no longer accept our pop icons being made into actual art, but instead insist on artifice, is really gross. So leave this one alone too, you assholes.