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Is It Sexist To Trash Miley Cyrus' Bizarre VMAs Performance?

No one's talking about the fact Robin Thicke is a married man with a son.

Pictures of Miley Cyrus' now-infamous VMAs performance immediately became a meme last night.

But many users are upset that Cyrus was made fun of so heavily for being sexual on stage.

Though most viewers are in agreement that the performance wasn't exactly great.

#Slutshaming @MileyCyrus for the VMAs tonight is just insane. This is not the right reaction to her performance.

Zach

@ZacharyLL

#Slutshaming @MileyCyrus for the VMAs tonight is just insane. This is not the right reaction to her performance.

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Rapper Kitty Pryde defended Cyrus on her blog last night, writing "white girls are not allowed to move their butts."

fuck stop calling miley a slut go away you guys suck

Hana

@h4noneh

fuck stop calling miley a slut go away you guys suck

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Is it sexist to bash Miley Cyrus for being just as sexual as Robin Thicke?

I keep hearing about Miley Cyrus' performance at the VMAs but no one is talking about how Robin Thicke was dressed like Beetlejuice. #weird

Victor Fuste

@TheVictorShow

I keep hearing about Miley Cyrus' performance at the VMAs but no one is talking about how Robin Thicke was dressed like Beetlejuice. #weird

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Robin Thicke was made fun of for looking like Beetlejuice (also a referee and the Foot Locker guy).

But the amount of backlash against Thicke pales in comparison to what's being said about Miley Cyrus.

And no one’s saying it was inappropriate for Robin Thicke to let a girl much younger than him grind on him, when he’s a married father

Megan Gray

@megmoo44

And no one’s saying it was inappropriate for Robin Thicke to let a girl much younger than him grind on him, when he’s a married father

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Like this picture that made it to the front page of Reddit Monday morning joking that Billy Ray Cyrus wished that Miley Cyrus was never born because of her VMAs performance.

Robin Thicke, however, is married with a son.

Lets all just take a moment to realize robin thicke is a 36 yr old married man

Madison Kayyy(:

@madkay97

Lets all just take a moment to realize robin thicke is a 36 yr old married man

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Everyone's bashing Miley, but no one's freaking out about the fact that Robin Thicke is a married father yet still allowed it to happen.

Sammy Santiago

@SammySantiagooo

Everyone's bashing Miley, but no one's freaking out about the fact that Robin Thicke is a married father yet still allowed it to happen.

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Comedian Kevin Hart even referenced Thicke's creepiness, after the "We Can't Stop"/"Blurred Lines" performance ended.

KEVIN HART JUST CALLED ROBIN THICKE A PEDOPHILE OH MY GOD BLESS U KEVIN

ɱe NINA ɱe

@ninapole1

KEVIN HART JUST CALLED ROBIN THICKE A PEDOPHILE OH MY GOD

BLESS U KEVIN

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Kevin hart just basically confirmed that Robin Thicke is a rapist.

dai

@ButeraDemetria

Kevin hart just basically confirmed that Robin Thicke is a rapist.

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Thought Catalog's Chelsea Fagan wrote this morning that trashing child stars has become a national sport.

Fagan critcizes the way people find it cathartic to trash her for being a "slut."

When we are fed such a filtered, managed image of a human being for so many years — an image so thoroughly scrubbed for family-friendliness that we begin to doubt their humanity at all — it's a particularly cathartic experience to see them fall. Hannah Montana was so pure, in such a manufactured way. Miley Cyrus gets to be dragged through the mud as a "gross slut," and that is fun. That is the downfall her story arc was always looking for.

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarboroug railed against Cyrus for a full 5 minutes Monday morning.

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Co-host Mika Brzezinski seemed completely beside herself over the performance saying that Cyrus was " pathetic, desperate, sick" and "clearly disturbed."

At the end of Monday's Morning Joe segment the anchors ask what Robin Thicke was doing out there with Cyrus, but it seems as though the majority of viewers saw things differently:

I love Miley and all but we get it now, your grown up, you don't have to rape Robin Thicke on the stage for us to know.

Kaydee Busse

@KaydeeBusse

I love Miley and all but we get it now, your grown up, you don't have to rape Robin Thicke on the stage for us to know.

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Miley raped robin thick lol dat man wife gne kill her

B dot Walker

@_KissMyBullets

Miley raped robin thick lol dat man wife gne kill her

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did I rly just waste 6 mins of my time on youtube watching miley perform? I did. she raped robin and my eyes 😶

becca

@beccasiglos

did I rly just waste 6 mins of my time on youtube watching miley perform? I did. she raped robin and my eyes 😶

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I think miley cyrus just raped robin thicke. #VMAs

Bey Dela Pena

@beeeeeeeeeey

I think miley cyrus just raped robin thicke. #VMAs

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Pretty sure Miley Cyrus is no longer engaged after she raped Robin Thicke...

Michael Gerald

@mhmitsmichael

Pretty sure Miley Cyrus is no longer engaged after she raped Robin Thicke...

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