burntcopper | stupid little trivia piece on scars

One place I can guarantee you nearly every single woman in the north-west hemisphere, Japan and Australia has scars. Which they will never have thought of. And never, ever get counted as in those stupid 'scar tally-up' conversations everyone gets into at some point or another.

No, we're not talking TB vaccinations. Those are mostly Brits, and how I realised the L'Enfant poster that was so popular in the 80s was using a a British model. It's also cross-gender.

Nor are we talking burns from cookery.

Or stretch marks you get from your hips/tits growing faster than your skin has time to catch up with at puberty.

Give up?

BACK OF THE ANKLES.

From wearing shoes. We've all had blisters from straps, new shoes, trainers after running for ages - you get blisters, they bleed, you put on a plaster, the skin heals. Only it's not just once in your life. It's regularly. Often it's once a year. That skin scars. Scars by their definition are where the new skin hasn't merged in seamlessly with the old. And this skin has been cut over and over again. Every single woman I saw on the tube tonight had scars from shoes on the back of their ankles. Some it was a faint mark, some it was pretty obvious. But all of them had it.

So if anyone ever tells you they have no scars and're female? They lie, my children, they lie. The only way you can get away with not having them is if you've gone barefoot or only worn flip-flops your entire life. Not sandals. Flip-flops. You have a strap going round your ankles, that strap will rub and cause blisters at some point.

This random piece of trivia brought to you by going up the stairs and going 'huh, what's the mark on the back of everyone's ankles?' this morning.