There's an inequality issue in America that will seem superfluous to those who've bought into thousands of years of convention: men's bare bodies are proper and women's are scandalous. In recent years, a wholehearted female contingent has protested the double standard by exposing their chests in public—where, technically, it's legal. Instagramers have pushed back against the social platform's anti-nipple stance, women storm New York City's Times Square each year for the annual Go Topless March, and we jumped into the conversation earlier this year when we asked Chelsea Handler and Nick Offerman to strip down for our April 2015 cover. Whatever it takes to level the playing field.

This is why Miley Cyrus, the fiercest pop rebel on the scene, refuses to put her clothes on. "When you've got your tits out, you can't be an asshole," Cyrus told Jimmy Kimmel while promoting her stint as this year's MTV Video Music Awards host. Appearing on the show in an open-faced sequin dress, her breasts exposed courtesy of heart-shaped pasties, Cyrus aligned herself with the feminist movement. Naked is comfortable, she said. And what's so wrong about female nipples if men's are a-OK? According to the singer, her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, is totally fine with her nudity-inclined lifestyle. 

"He'd rather me have my tits out and be a good person than have my shirt on and be a bitch," she said.

Cyrus admitted that there was one time when she was uncomfortable about her breasts. It was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joan Jett was there. Paul McCartney was there. Her boobs were there. Awkward was there. But as she recounts, it was the ultimate ice breaker. Hear the entire anecdote above.

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