Zonie63
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama Gloria Steinem Speaks Out About Miley Cyrus, Ends The Debate Forever ...Last week, during the Women's Media Awards, Steinem was asked by Yahoo's Omg! Insider whether she thought Cyrus' risque VMAs performance and "Wrecking Ball" video were setting the feminist movement back. The icon and activist answered with a resounding "I don't think so." She expanded on that opinion, saying: I wish we didn’t have to be nude to be noticed ... But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is in all of its states ... the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States. If a contest based only on appearance was the single greatest source of scholarship money for men, we would be saying, "This is why China wins." You know? It’s ridiculous. But that’s the way the culture is. I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists. I think a lot of men have gotten scholarship money for their athletic abilities, which is really just a lot of fluff, no different than a beauty contest. That's why China wins, because they're hard workers who take things seriously and who want to win, while we Americans really don't. The fact that any Americans at all are interested in Miley Cyrus or that she warrants any more than two lines in the back pages of the National Enquirer is a sad commentary on just how ridiculous our culture has become. I'm no fan of Gloria Steinem, although I think she's correct in that we need to change our culture. But Steinem and other like-minded people have been a major force in changing our culture over much of the past half-century, so I'm not sure what she's complaining about now. Too many people don't think things through, they don't consider the consequences of what they advocate, and when it turns out to not be to their liking, they're really the last ones who should be complaining about it.
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