Miley Cyrus Calls Herself World's Biggest Feminist
Miley Cyrus insists she is a feminist.
"I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women to not be scared of anything," Cyrus said in a recent interview with BBC's Newsbeat. "Girls are all beautiful."
The 20-year-old singer who has come under scrutiny for her lewd performances insists that there are double standards with men and woman and that she does her best to push the envelope for that reason.
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"Guys get to show their (expletive) on the beach, why can't we," she asked. "I don't understand the double standard of life."
Cyrus has been the face of controversy lately as a singer who has seemingly prided herself on her provocative appearance more than her music. The singer caused a stir during her MTV Video Music Awards performance in the summer, when she stripped down to a bikini while gyrating on married R&B singer Robin Thicke, 36.
While a number of people spoke out against the singer's performance and even called for prayer, Cyrus doesn't mind the negative attention. She decided to follow up the act with a recent performance at the MTV European Music Awards where she seemingly smoked marijuana onstage in a revealing outfit.
Although the singer has repeatedly said she does not mind the backlash she receives, she also admitted that she does her best to avoid reading it.
"I don't ever go online or look at what anyone says," she admitted to Newsbeat."I never worry about what I do on stage making me look bad because I know what kind of a person I am. In life you gotta look at anything that could be made negative into positive…I'm just happy to be here."
When "Today" host Matt Lauer asked if she minded the attention she was getting from her VMA performance earlier this year, she revealed why she didn't.
"I mean, it's kind of what I want. I'm an artist, so I'm hoping that I get a little attention or my record sales might be a little sketch," Cyrus told Lauer. "I don't ever really plan to offend people, but sometimes that just happens because I think people, they're not open to what they don't understand. But that's why when I'm singing for my fans, because they're all really young so they understand what I'm doing."
