Miley Cyrus Creates Controversy With "Tranny" Comments, Plus More Quotes About Sex and Drugs

The "We Can't Stop" pop star gets called out for using a defamatory term towards LGBT people

By John Boone Jul 29, 2013 9:48 PMTags
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Miley Cyrus, girl who makes it rain at the strip club (she'll tell you as much if you ask. She will probably tell you if you don't ask) and young woman who can't keep her tongue in her mouth (:-P), has brought her Good Girl's Guide to Being Controversial seminar abroad.

While in Germany, Miley asked a paparazzo, "Are there any good German trannies? Any good German tranny bars?" before having to clarifying herself: "Tranny bars, like guys as girls."

In a subsequent clip, which in fairness is taken from a seemingly different conversation, Miley tells some German bro, "You look like you may know more of the cool spots than anyone I've asked...We want to go somewhere weird. We want to go to a weird-ass club."

To be brief, there are a few problems with this: 1) "Tranny" is a derogatory term, which GLAAD describes among words that "only serve to dehumanize transgender people" and which "should not be used." The "T-Word," as some have called it, is a fairly hot-button issue, though—as even members within the LGBT community have slipped up using it.

 2) Lumping "tranny clubs" in with other "weird-ass clubs," if that's what happened, is also offensive. This should be fairly self-explanatory.

What Miley most likely meant is, "Any good German drag bars?" Which is a fine question to ask. We'd love to see what the German drag queen have to offer too (one of them definitely has to do Lady Gaga's "Scheiße," right? That seems pretty self-explanatory, too).

While on the same press tour, Cyrus sat down with U.K.'s Daybreak and explained, "I believe in karma because I've seen karma bite so many people. I've been lucky because the universe has done something right for me — karmically it's always been really good to me. I must have done something right in my past life."

Unrelated(?): Miley then got food poisoning. Feel better, girl! Be careful what you put in your mouth...and what comes out of it!

But what's the point in trying (so hard? Too hard?) to be controversial if we aren't talking about how OMG! controversial Miley Cyrus is being. So here are quick blasts of a couple more things that she's said recently:

Sex: "Hate when adults say daddy in movies. unless they talkin duuuurty," Miley tweeted. "but that s--ts still creepy."

Drugs: ''When I smoke, I don't get that sick feeling I get when I drink, or that anger rising up," she explained of her "stoner" sensibilities (again) to Style magazine. "There's a reason Bob Marley was like some kind of Rasta Mother Teresa."

Rock N Roll: "EVERYONE gotta have a Cartier" - @billyraycyrus #reasonswhyilovemydaddy," she quoted her dad (daddy) Billy Ray Cyrus. Though, if you are anybody (ANYBODY), you didn't need to be told this. Though you're probably too distracted by all your shiny diamonds, deciding which of your Cartier pieces to wear out to the weird-ass club tonight.

Anyway, still not controversial enough for you?

How about now?