I found this article a few days ago on HelloGiggles, a website that has articles written mostly by girls for girls to read, and the topics cover pretty much everything. This particular article was aimed and Miley Cyrus and all of the people that publicly exclaim their hate for her on the Internet. I'm not a fan of Miley either, but I definitely get the point of the article. While it somewhat talks about age and how young Miley was when she made the decision to star in a show, it also parallels a lot of how celebrities evolve with the world watching, and how much they are judged for every decision they make.
The author also appeals to her readers by writing, "To be fair, it takes tremendous courage to be any teenage woman, and, in
an age of Facebook and Twitter, each young woman who makes it through
to the other side is a certifiable war hero."
Most people go through tough periods in their lives, and with girls it can definitely be a lot worse (as Mean Girls proved), but we tend not to think of celebrities as people in the same way we think of our friends as people, so the hate is so much more passionate. So, do you agree with the author of the article? Why or why not?
What a provocative idea: that young women are "war heroes" simply for surviving adolescence in our culture. Do you agree?
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