The Hardest Part Is Not Finding What We Need To Be...

It is the same excuse that every artist uses when something happens in their lives does not get a positive public reaction they blame someone else. Miley Cyrus recently posed topless for photos that were taken by Annie Leibovitz for a spread in Vanity Fair. As wrong as it was for her to take photos of a 15 year old girl posing in risque positions, I think the American people as a whole are missing out on the bigger story. Her father was at the shoot with her, and while it maybe easy to fool a 15 year old in taking photos, her father should have stopped the shot from ever being done.
Why is it that the blame is so easily being passed down to the photographer when it is Bill Ray who is to take all the blame for the photos. He should have never been okay with her daughter having topless photos of herself taken. He should have said no and put an end to it. Miley is 15, she is way to young to be in photos that show off her body in anyway, no matter how artsy they are promised to be.
In some of these photos Miley is posing with her father in rather sexy ways that suggest more than a typical father daughter relationship. Being in the public requires protecting an image and if Billy Ray can sit back and allow his daughter to go through this kind of public humiliation at her young age then he is clearly as naive as his daughter.



Billy Ray is not the first father in Hollywood that has gone to far with his daughters. Have we forgotten Joe Simpson? He is constantly in the public eye for going too far with his daughters and not knowing when to say no. These men need to learn that they fathers first and managers second.