text: Jody Rosen of Vulture.Com (part of New York Magazine) called the performance a "minstrel show" [which] "tipped over into what we may as well just call racism."
  In a press release from the Parents Television Council, the organisation wrote: "MTV has once again succeeded in marketing sexually charged messages to young children using former child stars and condom commercials -- while falsely rating this program as appropriate for kids as young as 14. ... MTV continues to sexually exploit young women by promoting acts that incorporate ‘twerking’ in a nude-colored bikini. How is this image of former child star Miley Cyrus appropriate for 14-year-olds?"
  Me? What do I think? First of all, I'm getting on with the rest of my life. Considering that we collectively have to deal with pestilence, war, famine, and death, I am thinking that twerking, albeit a new-found entry in the Oxford Dictionary, is not on my top ten list of things I need to be worried about. Secondly, and I think this is the more important point, a bunch of self-professed experts are doing their damndest to tie all this back to all sorts of ills of society. Although, I don't remember hearing about the connection to rising CO2 emissions and global warming.
  The Twist was a dance inspired by rock and roll music. It became the first worldwide dance craze in the early 1960s, enjoying immense popularity among young people and drawing fire from critics who felt it was too provocative. -Wikipedia: Twist (dance)