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Two feminists with a love of gossip sites and an inability to "shut up" or "smile correctly" when gossip sites draw obscene images on pictures of 15 year olds or refer to bisexual men and women as attention seeking.

So we created this tumblr to talk about that.

The title of the blog comes from our mutual loathing of pictures of crying and/or upset celebrity children. We wish such pictures, like many of the things we highlight here, would disappear from the face of the earth.

"Taylor Swift is the latest victim of the dreaded celebrity wardrobe malfunction. The country bumpkin accidentally bared her underwear on stage during a concert in St. Louis, MI on Saturday."

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TAYLOR SWIFT: WARDROBE MALFUNCTION « Faded Youth Blog

Is it really any sort of malfunction when underwear is visible during dancing? And more to the point:

a) the latest victim? Are we really describing the act of clothes being sheer or disheveled as some kind of roving band that leaves victims?
b) the country bumpkin? Seriously? How completely contemptuous, that must make it … cool? It just reads as vicious.
c) as you read farther on (don’t), her underwear is basically called boring and virginal. Because even if no one is supposed to see your underwear and people seeing your underwear makes you a victim, it shouldn’t be boring. Women are objects, celebrities especially, sometimes I really hate this world.

August 15th, 2011   Notes