Time Immortal

I wrote previously about an article discussing the role of parenting in the lives of Lindsay Lohan as compared to Miley Cyrus, two young and very famous ladies.

As an addendum to that article, I respectfully submit the following:

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan apparently offered to strip completely in a film that only required partial nudity, and the producers refused. Yay!

I’d say “good for the producers,” but for the fact that they were still pushing for a nude scene. And no, I’m not getting all “sexually repressive” on the good Reader, although I will observe that I’ve yet to see a nude scene in which the nudity itself was an integral and necessary part of the scene, absolutely required to advance the plot of the film. And I’ve yet to see a nude scene that could be deemed morally licit on similar grounds.

I imagine, in our sex-saturated world, that every actress must inevitably entertain the request to do a nude scene in a movie, and I’m sure Miley Cyrus will one day face a similar request. For the life of me, though, I can’t imagine her agreeing to it, especially not with the enthusiasm that Ms. Lohan exhibited.

Good parenting vs. bad parenting.

Update: It’s been brought to my attention, however, all is not roses. Still, it serves to note that in a certain sense, while Miley’s self-portraits — complete with pulling back her shirt a bit to show off the colour of her bra — aren’t in good taste, and aren’t exactly in keeping with the Christian ideals she has elsewhere articulated, they aren’t exactly the worst we’ve seen coming out of young stars these days. I seem to recall a scandal involving Vanessa Hudgens recently that put Miley’s bra flash to shame. And to be fair, she certainly isn’t pregnant like a certain Spears sister of nearly the same age is.