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[quote=Anonymous]My uncle was a Korean War vet. He wore white t-shirts, and sometimes rolled up the sleeve with a pack of Marlboro cigarettes rolled in the sleeve. He had a tattoo on his upper arm, covered by his t-shirt sleeve. He was a good man, but that tattoo of wings of some sort made him look so mean!

In the 1980s movie "Officer and a Gentleman" Richard Gere's character covers his tatoo with a huge bandage. The tattoo is on his upper arm, hidden by his shirt sleeve. He hides the tattoo as a symbol of his low status and low class. He is insecure that the tattoo represents he isn't officer material. The drill seargent pulls the bandage off his arm, and tells him to be proud of those wings on his tattoo, because those are the only wings he will get, meaning, he won't pass officer training and he won't fly jets.

Fast-forward 2015, and young middle and upper class and educated men, and even women, have somehow fallen victim to a great marketing scheme, making them believe that disfiguring their bodies with permanent ink markings, is really cool and their way of expressing their individuality.

It is empowering for a young woman to get a tattoo, right after she slams a few cold ones, takes off her top, and makes out with her sorority sister in front of a crowd of people and a video camera recording, quickly uploaded to YouTube, while she takes a selfie of her tattoo for her Twitter!

How lovely. [/quote]

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