Why Do You Think You Deserve A King, When You’re Not A Queen?
I’ll never forget the image of her tongue sticking out of the side of her mouth. She was clad in a nude lingerie set, and she proceeded to hump and gyrate against a large foam hand while she licked her bright red lips.
The sight of Miley Cyrus on stage with Robin Thicke at the 2013 VMAs is a moment that has been burned into our brains forever. It was a culturally explosive performance — right before our eyes was the culmination of many years of oversexualizing women in public spaces. Only this time we weren’t even pretending like it was taboo anymore, and it was all being done in the most outrageous, exaggerated fashion. Nothing was too raunchy. Nothing was off-limits. Miley Cyrus bent over on stage and twerked herself into Robin Thicke’s crotch. She rubbed his private parts.