Comments on: Pole Dancing Doesn’t Make You A Stripper, Twerking Doesn’t Make You Black

By: Not an Open Letter to Anyone Re: Miley Cyrus or Sinéad O’Connor |

Not an Open Letter to Anyone Re: Miley Cyrus or Sinéad O’Connor | — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:36:17 +0000

[…] Yeah, Miley has nothing to do with sex work, besides occasionally trying to appropriate strip club moves for some extra […]

By: Eff

Eff — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:22:20 +0000

Oh please. Black women “twerking” and doing other such ridiculously-named, senselessly glorified moves have been exploited by black men in rap videos for decades. But along comes a petite white girl wanting to do the same thing, and now people want to cry racism. Where was the cry of female exploitation/borderline misogyny regarding rap videos by black males in the past? Basically, black/mixed race females are okay with being sexually exploited as long as the exploitation is performed by black/mixed race males. Hypocrisy at its lowest.

By: suki

suki — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:46:37 +0000

Interesting perspectives! Dancing is hard work, and people seem to forget that…

I don’t think Miley got a free pass. No one I know had a good opinion of her performance at the VMA’s. If they were into going to clubs, they thought she was terrible at twerking. If they weren’t, they just thought she was oversexualizing the show.

I thought she just proved who she was–a child star desperately doing ANYTHING she could think of to change her image, rebel against her dad (who sits on the Parents Television Council), and keep her name on as many top-searched lists as possible.

By: Simone Boheme

Simone Boheme — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:20:17 +0000

THIS!!!

Thank you!

By: Lazy Sunday: 1 September 2013 | Chronderlust

Lazy Sunday: 1 September 2013 | Chronderlust — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:12:57 +0000

[…] I could not be more bored with the Miley Cyrus “controversy” but I don’t want to be like “meanwhile, in Syria” or “Trayvon Martin” about it, so here are some actual strippers critiquing her VMA performance. […]

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:12:13 +0000

Have nothing to add. Underneath the specific topic is a great commentary on all stripping appropriation by the mainstream, something I’ve thought for many years but never fully articulated. Thank you.

By: Elle

Elle — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:12:30 +0000

This is just… fantastic.

By: N'jaila Rhee

N'jaila Rhee — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 02:07:32 +0000

What’s even worst is that Black women are being further demonized for enjoying our own bodies and sexuality because of this. I’ve seen way to many “If black chicks didn’t twerk, no one else would” tweets and snide comments to count. Why should we have to sanitize something that comes from our culture for the white mainstream? What is our obligation to “protect” them from emulating something that wasn’t made for their enjoyment or consumption.

By: Laura Ross

Laura Ross — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:04:38 +0000

This is the best thing I have read on the entire Miley Cyrus controversy. She really should fire her stylist.

I envy people who can really dance like that. I have a hell of a bad back and sometimes I can’t even walk, so seeing someone do a good job twerking makes me appreciate it even more.