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Hot or Not? Bandages

Posted by Emily Farris

We like scars, on ourselves and others. In our first game of black top street hockey, during our first and only season, we were knocked to the ground and lost a layer or two of skin on our left knee. We did everything we could to get it to scar: exposed it to the sun, skipped the Neosporin and picked at it relentlessly. Unfortunately, a few years later, there's no trace of our days as a tough, hockey playing chick. What we're saying is, we get that tough people, especially with scars, are hot. So we kind of get this Japanese trend of "Kegadoru," wrapping yourself in bandages as if you had a real injury. But when it's less about being tough and more about being perceived by men as an "injured doll," well, we just can't get into that.

[Via BoingBoing]


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Comments

immichan said:

Like the gothic lolita "new trend" report y'all did, this is also something that's not exactly new in Japan. Girls have been doing this for years. Evangelion helped with that. Is it just recently getting some American blogger attention?

December 6, 2007 11:45 AM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, "Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven" was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

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