Patterico's Pontifications

9/2/2013

That Ain’t Twerkin’

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 4:43 pm



Via Ace on Twitter.

25 Responses to “That Ain’t Twerkin’”

  1. Twerk well, and you will be treated well. Twerk badly, and you will die.

    Patterico (9c670f) — 9/2/2013 @ 4:44 pm

  2. ‘Goggles do nothin’

    narciso (3fec35) — 9/2/2013 @ 4:50 pm

  3. You may be a slut but that doesn’t mean you know how to twerk. Guy doing it better than hot girl in this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIh_Q9t1tQ0

    nk (875f57) — 9/2/2013 @ 4:55 pm

  4. Thanks. I missed the MTV show; on purpose.

    Mike K (dc6ffe) — 9/2/2013 @ 4:59 pm

  5. R.I.P. Frederik Pohl, Science Fiction Grandmaster

    Icy (216b6b) — 9/2/2013 @ 5:12 pm

  6. Twerk long and prosper

    Steve57 (35dd46) — 9/2/2013 @ 5:26 pm

  7. R.I.P. Frederik Pohl, Science Fiction Grandmaster

    Oh, no.

    I met him once.

    Patterico (9c670f) — 9/2/2013 @ 5:50 pm

  8. 93 years old, sir. I’ve read many, many of his works.

    Icy (216b6b) — 9/2/2013 @ 5:55 pm

  9. He was from the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

    Pournelle, Niven and Wolfe are really a different generation.

    nk (875f57) — 9/2/2013 @ 5:58 pm

  10. James E. Gunn may be the last one that first published in the 1940’s.

    Icy (216b6b) — 9/2/2013 @ 6:06 pm

  11. Gosh Miley, thank you for reminding us that women willingly and freely objectify themselves, thus denigrating us all. And all along we thought it was mens’ fault…

    Intersting juxtaposition of Pohl and Cyrus. A cultural rot long in the making?

    Dana (6178d5) — 9/2/2013 @ 6:47 pm

  12. As a parent of a daughter who was a Hannah Montana fan,
    I detest the whorification of Cyrus and Gomez and others
    and the fact that so many people are eager enablers as long as they can get a cut of the money and “fame”.
    Animals don’t know any better than to behave in public in such fashion, people should.

    “Forgetting how to blush” and encouraging people to do evil are not looked upon kindly by the Almighty.

    MD in Philly (f9371b) — 9/2/2013 @ 7:02 pm

  13. Self-whorif

    Dana (6178d5) — 9/2/2013 @ 7:34 pm

  14. Eh…self-whorification, MD.

    Dana (6178d5) — 9/2/2013 @ 7:34 pm

  15. Classic!

    Miley has been good for one thing: showing us what the lowest common denominator looks like.

    Patricia (be0117) — 9/2/2013 @ 7:47 pm

  16. Actually, I think Miley Cyrus is kind of cute and sexy, in general. But in that video, I can only compare her to a nerd trying to do John Travolta’s dance from “Saturday Night Fever”.

    Douglas J. Bender (9f192b) — 9/2/2013 @ 7:52 pm

  17. Comment by Dana (6178d5) — 9/2/2013 @ 7:34 pm

    Not completely self induced,
    her manager or the producer of the show could have said, “WTH?”

    MD in Philly (f9371b) — 9/2/2013 @ 8:44 pm

  18. 10 years from now, her skit will seem par for the course.
    Get used to it. Like the muslims taking over.

    mg (31009b) — 9/3/2013 @ 3:11 am

  19. There is nothing new under the sun. http://sobadsogood.com/2011/09/05/when-22-celebrities-were-young/ Scroll down to #25 for a picture of Betty White at age 20.

    nk (875f57) — 9/3/2013 @ 3:57 am

  20. She’s 91 now.

    nk (875f57) — 9/3/2013 @ 3:59 am

  21. Women have been posing nude for photographers ever since there have been cameras, nk. They’ve been posing nude for painters and sculptors for a lot longer than that. So the Betty White picture doesn’t signify anything.

    When what Miley Cyrus did on stage passes for family-style entertainment it does signify something. And it’s not good.

    Steve57 (35dd46) — 9/3/2013 @ 4:27 am

  22. Meh. My daughter doesn’t watch Disney at all now, not just Phineas and Ferb. She says we can stop cable — we got it for her when she started school so she can be on the same page with the other kids. She likes 30 Rock, watches it on Netflix. I posted a philosophy joke on Facebook and we started talking about Socrates and Dostoyevsky. I told her all the Dialogues are easy going but The Brothers Karamazov might be too much for her to take in right now. I suggested Crime and Punishment. I worry more about her eleven-year old friends and the influences they have on her than about what she sees on TV or the internet. We have a new caveat about that: Alice and Dorothy, funny.

    nk (875f57) — 9/3/2013 @ 4:52 am

  23. Disney Channel is off in my house too. My wife noticed that just about every show makes authority figures morons, and the biggest laughs come from situations about how to humiliate or out-smart parents or other adults.

    Very poor lessons to learn from “family” television.

    PBS and Nick Jr. pretty much all there is now.

    shipwreckedcrew (b4d940) — 9/3/2013 @ 8:40 am

  24. When I saw the title of the post, I figured someone had done a mashup of the MTV performance against the tune from “That Ain’t Workin” by Dire Straights.

    That would be funny — wish I had the time/talent to do it myself.

    shipwreckedcrew (b4d940) — 9/3/2013 @ 8:41 am

  25. She’s 91 now.

    Comment by nk (875f57) — 9/3/2013 @ 3:59 am

    In way you’re right. Celebrities have been trying to shock their way into fame for a long time, and they’ve been using sexuality to do it for a long time.

    I can’t recall anyone being quite this graphic on stage before, but it’s only a difference of degree. The lack of talent and art in this presentation is also nothing new.

    The utter loss of culture in this country for a materialism and idiocy that pretends to be culture has its roots in our loss of a legitimate education system and the media’s will to empower the politics of control. Scary, but not new.

    I look at those idiots cheering this girl and look at elections between the likes of Romney or Mccain vs Obama and it’s plain that we really do get what we deserve.

    Dustin (303dca) — 9/3/2013 @ 2:40 pm


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