Dear Miley Cyrus,
I would have hoped your mom would have shared these thoughts with you.  I should give her the benefit of the doubt though, and believe that she tried. That would be the right thing to to do.  It is quite possible, given your young age, this is just another early adult rebellion.  Trust me, I understand.  We all have a rebellious streak and even in our later years it still shows up.  So if that is the case and you have just chosen not to listen to an older and wiser person, then please let me share a few things.  I feel like with celebrities such as yourself there is an unspoken yet very real responsibility that you have to the youngsters out there.  Your responsibility lies in not only entertaining them, as you have chosen to do, but to teach them appropriate behavior.  It saddens me that this responsibility gets overshadowed by the horizon of success and money.  It saddens me even more that what you (and many like you) are teaching is a shallow, self-esteem breaking, and false reality.  Especially for the  young girls who look up to you. What are they learning?  They are learning that dressing half naked, thrusting your sexuality for all of the world to see, is what gets you deserved attention.  They are learning that it does not matter what your actions are as long as someone is watching and paying attention.  What we need in our society are strong, independent, powerful women who feel good about themselves.  We need the people who have a responsibility to teach this to them to step up to the plate and do it right.  We need our young girls to feel good about themselves.  We need them to understand that trying to attract a mate with half naked bodies and provocative behavior is not acceptable.  The kind of mate that you will attract by swinging naked on a wrecking ball will most likely not be the mate who will sit with you while you are ill, hold you when you cry or even cry with you.  It will not be the mate who will help you paddle to shore when your life boat is slowly sinking and be there for the long haul of life's ups and downs. Also, the young males who watch this and believe that this is how women are supposed to behave have a very rude awakening in their future.  Some things are better left for private situations. It does not matter to me if you set up a full circus trapeze in your home and swing naked from every contraption. That is your business.  It scares me, though, that the young girls watching you believe that to be sexy you must wear little or no clothes at all and flaunt your sexuality. Honey, listen,  sexiness is a power from within, an energy lit by self awareness, self love and self acceptance.  It has very little to do with your choice of clothes.  Trust me, any woman who knows how to be sexy can bring a room full of men (or women) to their knees wearing a turtle neck and slacks.  Sexiness is self confidence and an attitude.  It is not wagging your tongue (literally) and sexually molesting a man on a stage in front of the world.
I don't mean to single you out. There are many more celebrities out there who need to take full responsibility for their actions and understand the responsibility they have to our younger generations.
You are a beautiful young lady.  I'm not sure where along the way you lost this belief in yourself.  Possibly from watching the ones who have gone before you that behaved in much the same manner.  What I wish for you and the ones to come after you, is that you realize how powerful you are.  You have the power to actually change the lives of so many young girls.  My prayer is that you choose to change their lives for the better.  And yours too.
Sincerely,
Deb Fisher