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[quote=Anonymous]"A large percentage of men find tattoos on women to be a huge turnoff." Really? Men everywhere share this opinion? How big was your sample size? How large was the geographic area you covered? Do you mean "all men" or do you mean men of your same background and ethnicity? Let's be honest . . . you've had, what, three conversations about women's tattoos being unattractive in your life? But of course there can be no doubt about the universality of your opinion.

This sentiment belies a feeling of being on top of the food chain and bestowing your "helpful" opinion as though tattooed women crying into their pillows that they can't get a man to stick around is some large scale problem. How many of these tragically tattooed women are having a hard time finding a mate? That's not even a thing. The issue is with you feeling frustrated that a woman wholly unconnected to you has the gall to make herself less attractive to you. But it's not that you are a misogynist or full of entitlement and bias! The issue is that this poor little lady is inadvertently turning off ALL the men! If only she knew that everyone else is consumed with disgust over the ancient practice of body art . . . you're just trying to be helpful!

I've been there. I've had bias against people because their standards were different than those of my group, and as I'm a WASP it's easy to assume in America that my way is considered the gold standard. It was only when I realized how random (and frankly, often uninteresting) the standards of beauty/fashion/etiquette/etc. were for my group as compared to others that I saw that my judgment belied a "how dare they cast off our standards!" attitude.

Life is much more interesting when you understand that standards of beauty are arbitrary and that strong feelings about what is or isn't beautiful are not of interest to others.[/quote]

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