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he RIAA, MPAA, file sharing, tech stuff, or anything remotely close to them.
They’re to do with Gloomy Bear which mutilates and kills, and it’s pure Japanese.
Now here’s another Japanese orginal.
“Heads wrapped in bandages and eyes covered in patches, these girls have not been on the losing end of a fight, but rather the youth of Kegadoru, translated ‘injured idols’ and a fetish for scantily clad women to dress up in bandages,” says Weird Asian New.
The post goes on:
When you’re covered in bandages, everybody pays attention to you and worries about you. They also provide a chance to start talking to guys, who’ll ask you how you hurt yourself, so the bandages are really, really good.
Apparently the color of the bandages also plays a role in the fashion with White symbolizing chastity and virginity and Black symbolizing an even darker side to the trend.
We believe Red probably symbolizes they are really hurt and need to go to the hospital.
Says a post to the story:
haha I saw a girl like that on the train today, I really thought she was dying or something but now I know she wasn’t
Says another:
thats heaps cute, ages ago was the band-aid coverin the mouth an now this. ^_^v cute la ~
And, says Annette, “Trevor Brown was the first thing I thought of when I saw it,” going on:
Something I’ve noticed is that when there is a strange new trend in a subculture there is the explanation that they give to curious outsiders and the explanation that they keep to
themselves, It’s possible that they are doing medical art as subversive performance/fashion. Subversion doesn’t work the same if everybody knows what it really means.
As a comment on culture what does it tell us about the Japanese? That competition for male attention will spur girls to fake terrible injuries because Japanese men are so insecure around women that this is what it takes to make them feel unthreatened? I’m not saying that this is
the case, I’m just trying to prompt an added level of thinking about it.
I think this fashion is wonderful for how it prompts people to think about how people behave and think about disability, injury, femininity and sexuality.
(Thanks, Chizu, and you lose your bet 
)
Also See:
Gloomy Bear - Japanese Net-linked suicides, August 25, 2005
Weird Asian News - Kegadoru: Injured Idol Fetish, November 23, 2007
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