Double standard for teen celebrities?
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Double standard for teen celebrities?
I read an article a few weeks back about the double standard Hollywood and even the larger society seems to have over acceptable behavior for male and female teenage stars. Miley Cyrus received a large amount of backlash for seemingly posing nude in Vanity Fair. In actuality she had a shirt beneath her sheet. Yet Taylor Lautner who is also underage has posed shirtless for promotional pictures and is shirtless for a fair amount of the upcoming film New Moon. If the argument is that Miley's pictures are too sexual for a child, then isn't it the same for Taylor?
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-taylor-lautner-pics.html
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-taylor-lautner-pics.html
Seagreen- Number of posts : 17
Registration date : 2009-09-03
Re: Double standard for teen celebrities?
I agree but I do think there's a couple of key differences that lend themselves to the double standard:
1) Miley's a product of Disney, who have built themselves as THE kid friendly corporation of all time, so of course the Vanity Fair (and all the pictures that she keeps leaking from her camera) will cause a stir.
2) Taylor's fame comes from a franchise that succeeds by providing romantic fantasies to women and teenagers. So even though I think him displaying his spray on abs every chance he gets is pretty much the opposite of sexy, he's doing what the studio wants him to, and the Twilight Moms eat it up.
I think in our society that it's deemed worse to be a dirty old man than a cougar or whatever.
1) Miley's a product of Disney, who have built themselves as THE kid friendly corporation of all time, so of course the Vanity Fair (and all the pictures that she keeps leaking from her camera) will cause a stir.
2) Taylor's fame comes from a franchise that succeeds by providing romantic fantasies to women and teenagers. So even though I think him displaying his spray on abs every chance he gets is pretty much the opposite of sexy, he's doing what the studio wants him to, and the Twilight Moms eat it up.
I think in our society that it's deemed worse to be a dirty old man than a cougar or whatever.
incognito- Number of posts : 17
Registration date : 2009-09-12
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