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We couldn't bring ourselves to write about those photos of Miley Cyrus that were supposedly leaked from her MySpace profile the other week. There was just something a bit pervy-old-man about all these talking heads in the news discussing her suitability as a role model in the light of the green bra scandal. But the Miley Cyrus haters just keep on chattering, and we can't hold back any longer. After the jump, our five reasons not to hate on Miley Cyrus right now (even if she is guilty of the worst New Jersey fish mouth ever)...

1. Not a suitable role model?! She's a teen star who's (a) not pregnant, (b) not in rehab, and (c) not institutionalized. These days, we'll take our teen girl role models where we can get them.

2. She's fifteen, ferchrissakes. Every 15-year-old does stupid shit like taking a photo with her best friend and a Twizzler à la Lady and the Tramp. And every 15-year-old posts said photos on her MySpace profile, thinking it's private. Just because Miley is world famous and richer than God doesn't mean she's any smarter than your average 15-year-old.

3. If a father and a daughter sit together in this weirdly suggestive pose that suggests they're more BF-GF than parent-child, we're going to blame the father first and the photographer second. But the 15-year-old? She's the one with the bad role models around.

4. Speaking of photographers, when Miley was asked by Vanity Fair about her racy Vanity Fair photo in which she's draped in nothing but a blanket, she said, "I think it's really artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way...And you can't say no to Annie [Leibowitz]. She's so cute. She gets this puppy-dog look and you're like, O.K." Hell, we were well into our thirties when we got sweet-talked into a slightly skanky pose* by a photographer who was, well, no Annie Leibowitz. (*And no, it's not what you're thinking. We kept all our clothes on, Mom.) So we're going to cut Miley some slack here.

5. The teen girls/mean girls have turned on Miley and called her a slut for posing in nothing but a blanket in Vanity Fair. And no one is in more need of a little love than the girls who get hampered with the "slut" moniker in high school. Also, an aside to those mean girls: We hope you wake up with a pimple the size of Mount Vesuvius in the morning.