EMO subculture

[The Sushi Hunter]

Here's a new one, for me at least.

http://www.soemo.co.uk/emo.php

Japan has a simular subculture called Mountain Hag that has been around for just as long as perhaps the EMO in UK.

[Starrider]

She's hideous. WTF?

[The Sushi Hunter]

:shock:

She's hideous. WTF?

LOL! Here's another delight:



The mountain hag movement in Japan has a very interesting history about it. It's based on folklore in part because hundreds of years ago, Japanese would send old people out on their own to die in the wooded mountains when they became too much of a burden to the family or society to care for anymore. So in turn, the folkore was that these "mountain hags" would come down at night in search of food and water but would steal/take small children if they so found any during their search. This story was told most of the time to children that were missbehaving, sort of like your parents saying they were going to ship you off to a reform school if you continued to fuck up as my parents used to say to me. Total scare tactic.

During the 80's while living in Japan, the only Japanese women who would remotely put on makeup and hair style/skin color like the current "mountain hags" do today were the Japanese women who dated black men exclusively. Back in the 80's, 9 times out of 10, you could tell which Japanese chicks were dating just black guys because of how they styled themselves. Being over there for any length of time, you'd know exactly which clubs these type of chicks were headed to even before they got there. They used this look to make a rebellious statement as back then Japanese society frowned on such mixed relationships more then they would today. They would make their skin dark, make their hair very curly and wear crazy makeup just so if they weren't with their guy you'd still know what she's up to. I guess in the mid 90's this style became a look for the "mountain hag" subculture.

[Starrider]

:shock:

She's hideous. WTF?

LOL! Here's another delight:

She actually looks like she'd be attractive if she ditched all of her clown gear and makeup.

[The Sushi Hunter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qe4AZRkFYE

A pretty good documentary on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6PDDhuvnU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5jDLs8pn60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjnCrz-fBFw