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• tomic commented on Tokyo fetish-fashion: "injured idol"
  It's not THAT new a fashion, nor exclusively on girls, there's a boy in FRESH FRUITS (2005) with bandages and reinterpreted Dogpile post-punk. Very cute. Unless of course the boy is as girl, but from a fashion POV, who cares? Fetishes, sexual or otherwise, have a very complex relationship to dominant culture, and are quite resistant to trivial analysis. It's a lesson carefully learned in queer cultures here in the U.S....
• darrell commented on Tokyo fetish-fashion: "injured idol"
  @ Teapunk: LOL, foot-in-mouth disease. Sorry. I see all anonymous people as male because I have a penis...forgive me. Won't happen again...
• Shrdlu commented on Tokyo fetish-fashion: "injured idol"
  Some people here had the courage to say what they really, honestly felt. Bravo!...
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden commented on Tokyo fetish-fashion: "injured idol"
  Darrell (4), an eloquent comment, and I think a valid one. I can easily think of one or two dozen examples of male characters whose heroism is partly expressed by the injuries they endure along the way. Women haven't tended to be portrayed in the same way. If they were wounded, the wounds were never unsightly, and were usually an occasion for them to be rescued. Heroic women weren't shown taking significant physical wounds. Their role was to bear up under a sequence of emotional wounds until they died heroically at the end. Bandaging a female character, then, can become...
• MaoKitten commented on Tokyo fetish-fashion: "injured idol"
  Holy crap, guys. Why do bandages even need to have some deeper meaning of gender weakness or false strength? Why can't a bandage just be a bandage? Personally, I like how it looks. I think it's pretty on both women AND men. There's just something about it that I've loved long before it even became a fashion trend. And as a side note, I don't look at someone with bandages and think that they're weak. I just think they look like they've had a bad day....