the backlash against Miley Cyrus isn't racism or slutshaming

[bhikkhu]

4. I watched the performance (after the fact), and I didn't think much of it

but what seems to me a crappy awkward dance was explained to me by my daughter as a kind of "krumping" hip-hop mash-up. And she showed me some "krumping" on you-tube, which I didn't think much of either, but it is a real style, modern, popular, and expressive.

I suppose the adults in the 50's thought early rock and roll dancing was without grace or style, and worthless. And the adults of the 60's thought the free-form "hippie" styles were completely without value. And so forth...I can have an open mind enough to say that her performance was probably understood well by her peers (albeit, young people can be as ruthlessly critical as anyone). My reaction kind of segregates me out of that whole group, and into one that really doesn't matter. I imagine she could say to most of her critics, if she cared enough to say so, that they weren't the audience.