[blueerica]

I'm with Alex. Heck, I'm a girl and I wear my sporting and tom-foolery bruises with pride!

Of course, there's a stigma attached to females sporting bruises - an automatic assumption that she got it due to some sort of abuse. I got a lot of strange looks and a couple of questions after taking a small-sized kickball to the face about a month ago. (I was playing in a "broomball" event.)