Angel Haze went on a lengthy Twitter tirade blasting The Washington Post for a recent piece regarding pop starlet Miley Cyrus and Miley’s controversial MTV Video Music Awards performance. Cyrus has come under criticism from several places over the salacious performance, which featured the singer twerking and grinding against fellow star Robin Thicke. In the Washington Post piece, writer Richard Cohen stated that “She has been amply and justifiably criticized. She’s a cheap act, no doubt about it, but for me her performance was an opportunity to discuss one of the summer’s most arresting pieces of journalism — a long New Yorker account of what became known as the Steubenville Rape. Cyrus should read it.”
Haze exploded on social media over the writer’s implication that somehow a woman dancing suggestively has some affect on rape culture.
“Recently been asked about @MileyCyrus way too much. Was particularly perturbed by the whole washington post thing. Let me just vocalize,” she tweeted. “How utterly f–king stupid I think it is for a national news publication to post that her dancing is why things like Steubenville happen,” Haze shared on Twitter.
“That is terrible journalism, slut shaming, and complete and total idiocy all at once. If @MileyCyrus wants to dance, let her,” she continued. “A female dancing doesn’t mean she’s ‘asking to be raped.’ Quite frankly, if she is not doing it on you, it is not for you.”
“Women are allowed to not feel enslaved by any opinion that suggests that the display of any sort of sexuality is wrong,” Haze tweeted. “Die, you are what’s wrong with the world, it’s 2013. You should know by now that the word “no” does not have various meanings and is not to be taken as anything but no.”
“I just don’t get it.”
