Tattoos
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Anonymous
+1 Oh, woe is me, all of the people who have to suffer by seeing someone with a tattoo! What about people who are naturally hideous? Should they cover themselves so that your functioning eyes don't have to view them? I actually feel more at ease when I walk into a place and see a room full of people with major tattoos (full sleeves). That's probably just because my experience has always been that I've had a better time with those people. It's the uptight, stodgy people who squash my sense of joy. |
Anonymous
I have two small tattoos in places where people can't see them unless I want to show them. I actually envy the people who don't give themselves the option of hiding theirs. I wish I didn't care and didn't have to care what other people think. You seem to miss the point. You don't have to be "embarrassed" for them. They don't care what you think or what others think. Maybe they pity us for having to hide something we like on our own bodies because of fear of judgment. When I retire, I'm going to get huge tattoos in very visible places -- and yep, I won't care how it shows on my saggy, old skin. I'll be living free. |
Anonymous
Good lord is that disgusting |
Anonymous
I was just about to post this article! 
I'm a 35-year-old mom who had a very happy childhood (and is in the middle of a very happy adulthood). I have three tattoos, going on four. My tattoos commemorate important things (a visual representation of my thesis topic) and people (my grandparents). I carry them with me. I'm also an educator in a creative field. My brother is 31, had the same happy childhood and a similar happy adulthood, and he's covered with tattoos. Sleeves, calf pieces, a neck piece, even on his fingers. He's one of the most responsible and lovely people you'll ever meet, a wonderful uncle to my DS, and a leader in his creative field. He's also very colorful. The tattoo-haters here probably don't have to do business with him, so they won't have to worry about having to look at his tattoos. But they'd be missing out if they judged his character purely based on how he chooses to decorate himself. |
Anonymous
A whole room of suitors interested..... and then disgusted. All because you had to get a giant tattoo that you couldn't even see. In your twenties it *might* seem like a good idea, but she WILL regret it if all kinds of good men reject her and she is unmarried and childless at 40. |
Anonymous
For the love of god why? |
Anonymous
Or maybe she'll wind up with a good guy who likes tattoos. There are a lot of them around, contrary to what a lot of PPs believe, apparently. Or maybe she'll end up with a good WOMAN who likes tattoos. Or, maybe she doesn't want to get married and doesn't want kids. This whole part of the conversation is incredibly misogynistic. |
Anonymous
People who get tattoos do it for themselves, not for you. I don't care if you don't like it. That's your right, your taste, etc. Perfectly legitimate. It's reducing a human being to nothing but her body is what I object to. Objectifying for lust or disgust. All the same. She's a human being with human feelings, human strengths, and human flaws. She is complex, just like everyone else. She's not a "waste of a body" just because you don't care for it. |
Anonymous
It won't die because it's permanent! It may die with the next generation as they try to be different from the previous one. When I was growing up, the only tattoos were former servicemen, or former concentration camp survivors. So it's been near impossible for me to get over the idea of a tattoo as being either a (fine) military thing or a bad thing, but I recognize younger folks don't have that view. In the past, it me feel like the younger set was not in touch with history to make that choice to get one. But it's so pervasive now, I see that it has lost its historical place so I don't think that anymore. |
Anonymous
No. You've posted that as a certain and inevitable fact, and it isn't. Someone might regret their tattoo or not, but you cannot know that. 1. People are always going to have different tastes so the person might always love it. 2. All kinds of men may be perfectly wonderful but the person the hypothetical "she" is looking for is probably someone who will love all of her, including tattoos. A person who's disgusted may not be a good match. 3. Someone's worth is not dependent on finding "a good man" and getting married. There are people who don't want that. And there are people who don't want that IF it requires changing their choices about their body to conform to someone else's preferences. A woman's worth isn't based on whether you/someone/anyone finds her attractive as a potential mate. Your post and argument is inherently sexist. |
Anonymous
| Tattoos, piercings, scarifications, other body modifications....they've all been around since the beginning of human history. |
Anonymous
1. I'm sure the person likes their look, which is all that matters. 2. If we are going to discuss the irrelevant question of whether others find the person attractive, there are definitely people -- maybe not you, which is totally fine and your own preference is what matters for you -- but people in general, who absolutely do. Different people different tastes I, for example, think that person's body art is beautiful. I don't have tattoos or want any, but I personally think the person in the picture looks so interesting and quite lovely. 3. It doesn't matter whether you/I/anyone would want to sleep with the person. People aren't obligated to make choices about their own bodies in order to suit anyone else's preferences. |
Anonymous
Maybe the tattoo is actually filtering out the kind of men she doesn't want to marry -- the kind that will reject a woman out of hand for something that is purely aesthetic. Maybe the tattoo will help her find a man who will still love her when she is 50 and maybe her body isn't the same and her looks are no longer a "10" as you say. There are worse things than being unmarried and childless at 40 (especially for women who don't want to get married or have children). Being in an unhappy marriage because you married some judgmental horntoad who only cares about a perfect body and ogles other women while he's at a restaurant WITH HIS WIFE -- that seems worse to me than being single at 40. I married late because I wanted a man who would love me even if I shaved my head and got neck tattoos. |
Anonymous
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I don't have tats and never will. Idgaf is someone does. It's not my body and doesn't concern me. In no way s a tatted person low class, trash, etc simply because you don't like tats.
Same with names. Whether you name your kid Tiffany or Caroline, it's not a marker for your place in life. So sick of judgmental pricks. |
Anonymous
They are the ones posting that they hate tattoos. They cover their tramp stamps they got in college cause it has dawned on them that tramp stamps are not classy. |