I have a beautiful 14 year old daughter and I would never pose with her like this

[trumad]

This picture kind of makes me feel ill.

[Ian David]

1. Who is that girl and why did that guy kidnap her?

[madeline_con]

37. EW! He has something on his lip! n/t

[anonymous171]

2. That picture was far, far worse than the exposed back picture.

[BuyingThyme]

52. ..

[TwilightGardener]

3. Oh my. They look like lovers. That's disturbing.

[Botany]

11. If it walks like a duck .... quacks like a duck .... and flys south for the ..

.... winter .... it is a duck.

They were going for "shock value" here .... low rent but just shock value.

[mitchum]

4. That does make one think of Dogpatch Babylon, doesn't it?

very creepy

[Sal Minella]

21. "Dogpatch Babylon." Heh. Heh heh. I like it.

It occurs to me that there may be many on this board for whom the word "Dogpatch" doesn't bring up images of Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae in her cutoffs, and Ma Yokum and her pipe, and the pigs under the porch.

I even remember the schmoos.

Dogpatch Babylon. Love it. heh. Don't remember Babylon, no, just Dogpatch.

[mitchum]

23. Glad you liked it...Steve Earle once said that "Shania Twain was...

the most popular lapdancer in Dogpatch"

[Lint Head]

5. Sex sales. Even implied and subtle sexual hints. :dem:

[Darth Lenore]

45. Sex sells, but you don't have to buy it.

Take a stand, people. Stop buying this shit, no matter how much you like the artist/magazine/whatever in question. And write a letter telling them why you are not buying their product.

[dysfunctional press]

6. well, if you ever need someone to, i'd be happy to pose with your daughter like that.

:hi:

[trumad]

10. Well at least you're a Democrat.

;-)

[whatchamacallit]

7. Shit, I wanna do them both!

I kid, I kid... Yeah, something a little off with this stuff.

[notadmblnd]

8. I don't think that's an appropriate father daughter picture either

Still, I don't find it as scary as those Purity Ball photos.

[trumad]

9. I mean look at it

She's laying across his crotch.

[Runcible Spoon]

46. she's resting her arm on his thigh. whoop dee do.

My mom used to alter my clothes, I guess I was molested every time she measured the inner seams :eyes:

[BrklynLiberal]

12. How does the Mom/Wife feel about this??????????

[FrenchieCat]

13. I don't like that.

As the mother of two daughters, one 21 and the other 18, I'd be pissed to see my hubby posing with either one of them like that. It simply bad taste. Really horrid, in fact. and I'm a liberal.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. He could have stayed out of that pose. nt

[liberalmuse]

15. Why, because you don't have a mullet?

I admit, it looks like they are boyfriend and girlfriend rather than father and daughter. BRC looks too young, and as if he's trying to be sexy. Weird pic, but I don't think it's disturbing or anything. It's not the traditional father/daughter pic, like this, for instance:

Well, that didn't really prove my point.

[Skittles]

16. Billy looking more and more like a fame whore

[The River]

17. Good Grief....

is this PrudeUnderground?

There is nothing wrong with the photo.
It's actually quite good.
I see the symbolism. All kids
"lean" on parents for support.
One arm around her to protect his young.
She looks ahead...the future. He is looking
back. He is her "past".

Must every family portrait look like
Sunday after church at the local Sears
photo booth?

[mitchum]

29. Actually, that photo does look like Sunday after church for some people

Sorry but your interpretation is...labored. "I see the symbolism. All kids
"lean" on parents for support.
One arm around her to protect his young.
She looks ahead...the future. He is looking
back. He is her "past" - c'mon!

I doubt that the mulleted Bubba is really diddling his daughter, but the implication that he just might be IS the photographer's intention. Photographer Annie Lebowitz is an old hand at packaging her products...er...subjects. People are still talking about this a couple of months after publication. Ginned up controversey sells many things including teen pop, corporate country twaddle, and magazines.

[RNdaSilva]

53. Well said...

jeez...

[Cronus Protagonist]

18. I don't see anything wrong with it

I do see a lot of people PROJECTING their own shadows onto it, though.

[Schema Thing]

20. Indeed.

[Fumesucker]

22. My grandkids watch the Hannah Montana show constantly..

I was quite prepared to dislike Billy Ray but I found myself actually kind of liking at least the character he plays on the show.

He _seems_ like a decent guy.

And yes, I know appearances can be deceiving.

Somehow we got to watching HM clips on youtube that had been set to the song "Party Like a Rock Star" (which I hadn't heard before) and I kidded my grandkids that HHM was a rock star.. The oldest granddaughter (eight) immediately responded that HM was POP star, not a rock star.. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXO3tZp6nCE

[Cheap_Trick]

30. Boy, do I have some experience with THAT

in the last couple days......

:rofl:

[Runcible Spoon]

42. bingo.

good old American sex-obsessed Puritanism. I remember the same thing with old school Britney, a whole slew of old men secretly lusting for her but chiding her for any perceived lack of modesty.

Just because old men want to fuck girls who are pubescent but legally underage doesn't mean their fathers want to(even if they are talentless washed up hokey turds).

[XemaSab]

58. I actually think it's a beautiful picture

If you think it's dirty, it's cause you have a dirty mind. :P

[Cronus Protagonist]

59. I see a loving family man with his loved daughter

And I wonder what my life would have been like if I had such an asset in my childhood.

[pipi_k]

65. I have to admit that I didn't see anything wrong with it either

and I also wonder how different my life might have been "if only"....

Only two incidents of physical contact (excluding slaps or kicks from him) with my father, one of them initiated by me (a hug after his stroke)....that's two incidents in the fifty years I knew him before he died.

My childhood was pretty much devoid of physical contact except for corporal punishment

What I wouldn't have given to have been able to feel that comfortable with my own father...

:(

[Schema Thing]

74. If it's any consolation

I think that somehow you've managed to come out ahead of a lot of people here, just by your being aware that you missed something.

[Cronus Protagonist]

80. You said it better than I

Only I would have to have a new father because mine is bat shit crazy and I wouldn't want a hug.... lol What I wanted was to be loved but a man who cannot love himself cannot love another.

[Toucano]

61. Precisely.

Good old-fashioned American sex hysteria.

[TlalocW]

19. This was taken right before they went to their local

Father-Daughter Purity Pledge Dance.

TlalocW

[Monk06]

24. Well you can take the dude outa the trailer park but ............

Skin tight Levis, Mullet, Sideburns, Jailbait
Daughter. Am I missing something.

Yes. the twelve toed grand kids and duelin banjos.

[gatorboy]

28. You forgot

A smelly french lumberjack that probably lives in an igloo made of beer and bacon.

[Monk06]

33. Igloos are made of snow silly and french lumber jacks take a bath

once a year when the ice breaks up.

Cyrus is still an Elvis pretendin'
lustin for his daughter cracker
mother fucker. Sorry if I hurt
your southern man feelin's.

[gatorboy]

55. Oh, never mind!

We just enjoy your bacon :hi:

[MyNameGoesHere]

83. Hey can you please take Celine and cold weather back?

I don't like much from Canada, but those two things suck in that order.

[RebelOne]

60. Excuse me, but I live in a trailer park.

Why do people look down their noses at us mobile home dwellers?

[Cleita]

25. I don't find it as offensive as the photographer father who took nude

photos of his (I believe sixteen year old) daughter and sold them to Playboy. I think it was back in the early seventies. I remember my husband and I saying, oh no this isn't right. Back to this picture though, when I was her age, I had already decided some limits to hugging daddy and believe me that balletic pose wasn't it. I mean you both know when the time comes that you aren't a little girl anymore.

[ZenKitty]

26. Enlighten me...

I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with the photograph.

[Iggo]

31. I'm with you.

Looks like a pretty picture to me.

[bunkerbuster1]

70. Nothing, really.

Rates a big shrug from me.

[DearAbby]

27. Who is the MULLET...Joe Dirt?.......n/t

[madeline_con]

40. That's Daddy, Billy Ray Cyrus.

You didn't think she was famous because of TALENT did you? :rofl:


Which makes ya wonder, why the hell is HE famous?

[asdjrocky]

32. I met him, and had to work with him

shortly after that stupid song became a hit. He is a class a asshole. No sense of humor and a little slow. I think what he's doing is selling sex with his 14 year old, and I find it disgusting.

[Wizard777]

56. Yeah I ran into him on the street in WV. I told him to kiss my achy breaky ass.

He was very polite to me. But I'm a 6' 11" retired executive bodyguard. Most people are. There's a word for people that aren't. Suicidal.

[Critters2]

34. Yikes!!

[flvegan]

35. Vanity Fair? When was the last time Vanity Fair

took a responsible picture of this "type"?

Hollywood has no boundaries, and neither does Billy Ray it seems.

[Lyric]

36. I don't like Hannah Montana and I don't like Billy Ray Cyrus, but

I see nothing wrong with that picture. It doesn't look sexual to me. I see a celebrity girl dressed like half of the other girls her age around here, a celebrity Dad who looks pretty much like he always has, and comfortable affection. The composition of the photograph seems to say, "My Dad is a strength that I can lean on."

It never ceases to amaze me how people can read "sex" into the most innocent, trivial things. And not JUST sex, oh no. Toss in pedophilia and incest insinuations, too. Make it as dirty as possible.

:eyes:

It's sad that men are automatically cast as suspicious when they dare to be physically affectionate with their female children. We do the men of America a grave, grave disservice with this kind of gossipy crap.

Note: this was not directed personally at you, trumad. Just at the general self-righteousness and judgement around here.

[Flabbergasted]

43. .

[Runcible Spoon]

44. agreed, and well-said oktober. n/t

[Monk06]

49. "My Dad is a strength that I can lean on." Please daddy is not your god/protector.

No wonder you folks voted for Reagan. What a
bunch of infants you are.

You even have the spectacle of Mc Cain hugging
Bush like he was his daddy.



If a girl has to lean on her daddy she'll never fackin
grow up.

[SmileyRose]

57. ?? ????

the whole point of good parenting is to give a child a safe structure from which to explore themselves and the world - saying a female child doesn't need that in some fashion doesn't make sense to me. Can you explain further?

[lumberjack_jeff]

84. Get a grip. I have only sons, but I most definitely AM their protector. n/t

[Lyric]

85. First of all, who is "you folks"? 'Cause I wasn't old enough to vote

for Reagan, and my Dad (a decorated Vietnam Vet) was one of the most devoted Democrats I've ever met in my life. He loathed Reagan. Go insult someone else, please.

Secondly--you're seriously suggesting that a fourteen-year-old girl *shouldn't* lean on her Dad, or draw on his strength for protection? WTF? All parents protect their children--that's the most important part of the job. Even adults sometimes lean on their parents for strength, because all of the "growing up" in the world can't solve the problem when something seriously bad happens, and you need help.

You have some seriously skewed ideas about what the roles of parents (especially fathers) should be.

[RNdaSilva]

54. oktoberain, agree...

minds in gutters are far worse.

[Schema Thing]

76. thank you

[Marr]

38. What's wrong with it?

Can't say I'm all that crazy about it, but I don't see how it's immoral or anything.

[Bluebear]

47. I don't know about immoral but it's creepily cozy for a dad/daughter

[MetaTrope]

39. Could have been worse

[madeline_con]

41. Stuff like that should have a warning! n/t

[MrSlayer]

48. I don't read anything wrong into this father daughter photo.

I think people just have filthy minds.

[Norrin Radd]

50. "Down with this sort of thing."

[1]

51. "that's entertainment!"

that is their business. that is what they do. you and i wouldn't do that.

but then i'm old and out of touch...

[Vinca]

62. I get the same reaction from this photo that I got from the photos

from the "Purity Ball." They don't look like parent/child photos . . . at all.

[Dorian Gray]

63. Honestly

for a magazine photo, I don't see the problem with that. It's sort of ridiculous, but it's not shocking.

[DailyGrind51]

64. So much for "family values".

[noamnety]

82. I'm missing the problem with family values here.

Maybe it's cultural.

A lot of Americans sexualize any physical contact at all, which is sad. That's not the way all people are.

[geek_sabre]

66. lots of daddy issues among posters here

there is nothing wrong with this picture. It is perhaps little cheesy.

[Toucano]

77. It has a certain "Glamour Shots" cheesyness alright.

Other than that, I see nothing alarming or "icky" about the composition.

People are capable of touching one another in a non-sexual manner.

[NashVegas]

67. Annie's Photos Underscore the Marketing That's Gone Into Mylie

And the generally sterile beauty Hollywood promotes, in contrast to the photos she took that are caused the uproar.

[conspirator]

68. deleted

[Odin2005]

69. My god, you people have sick minds. I don't see anything wrong with the photo.

Get your minds out of the gutter, please. How people can find non-existent sexual meanings everywhere disturbs me; part of that Puritan-derived sexual repression coming out...

[trumad]

72. Putitan?

I guess you love NAMBA to?

[EOTE]

81. NAMBA?

Is that the North American Monkey Ball Association? Seriously though, just because someone doesn't see incest and pedophilia in this picture (I don't), doesn't mean that they support man/boy love.

[Vickers]

71. I have a beautiful 13-year-old daughter.

I'm a little torn on this whole thing. Our whole family is pretty cuddly, although of course the amount of that gets a little less each year.

I don't really see anything wrong with the way they are together, but I don't think it's a good idea for a photograph.

So I think I am agreeing with you (I just now noticed the "pose" part of your post).

[L0oniX]

73. She does not look 14 ...more like 22.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

75. First, I am no way a prude but this photo makes me feel icky, not unlike the ones of the Purity Ball

Secondly, I was in the kitchen yesterday AM and my ex-husband (we live together) was watching Hannah Montana. I asked him if he saw the photo of father and daughter for Vanity Fair. He said he did. I asked him how he felt about it, and he said he didn't feel there was anything wrong with it.

Different people perceive things differently.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

78. Geez louise.

Grow up already.

[JANdad]

79. were you bored last night????

First this pic has been out there for some time now and second...get a life...

[PassingFair]

86. I don't see anything wrong with it AT ALL.

And I am a well-known prude.

:)