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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our pediatrician briefly had a receptionist with multiple piercings (nose, eyebrow, lip), many tattoos, and strangely colored hair (this was 10 years ago, long before the current trend,  which I think is odd). I thought it an bizarre choice, and was happy when she was no longer there.  It is about being in a position of a role model, and sorry not sorry, but tattoos and piercing are not what I want as a role model for my children.  
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Disagree. I am teaching my kid to be accepting and not judge people for their tats, piercings, or how they look. You should try it.[/quote]

People who have tattoos do not have the right not to be judged.

It's your decision to get a tattoo and I support your right to get it, but you must also support in exchange my right to make fun of it, to describe it as ugly and comment on the stupidity of it, and to use you as an example to my kids of what not to do because older people with tattoos never look great. The skins turn blotchy and hideous, the tattoos fade, and to be frankly honest, the multiple piercings and septum piercings are silly and distort your appearances. And it causes many people to judge you without knowing you. People will not judge you by your intelligence or your accomplishments but by your silliness and vanity.

Telling me to not to be judgmental is only imposing your views on me, which is ironic. You can't have it both ways.

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That's some interesting mental gymnastics there, bud. I personally don't care what you think of tattoos or piercings, and I have no tats and only ear piercings. The only one being a judgmental dick here is you. Read what you wrote. You spent a paragraph going on about it and in pretty nasty terms.

This isn't about "right not to be judged" whatever that means. It means being a decent person. No ones tattoos or piercings affect you. It says nothing about their morality, integrity or intelligence. I'm not "imposing" anything on you other than telling you to be a decent person. You don't have to like what other people do to their bodies - somehow requiring that would be imposing something on you. But, yeah, I judge you for what you've wrote, which is unkind and a little ignorant. You just don't like hearing it and having someone tell you what kind of an ugly person you are. That's something else entirely. [/quote]

I can judge someone for their silliness while still thinking them a decent person for the most part.

It's silly to pretend otherwise. None of us are Mother Theresa. We live in a world where everyone judges everyone else on so many levels, from race to clothing to education to occupation to cars to where we live. Even the tattooed hipster people are usually among the most judgmental people in their pseudo-rebellion. And when you chose to make a major statement like highly visible tattoos and piercings, you are deliberately inviting judgment. Especially if you are a teacher in a public environment, you're inviting controversy because you are definitely using your lifestyle preferences to dare others not to dislike or judge it and then judging them for judging you. You do not live in a vacuum but in an environment of constantly evolving relationships with multiple people in multiple settings.

To use people's lifestyle preference as a warning is perfectly fair. It's perfectly valid to tell a child that many people are judgmental about tattoos and to weight that against the pros and cons of getting tattoos, it's perfectly valid to warn a child of the long term physical appearances of tattoos, and that they are indicative of a certain type of mindset that is based on short term thinking (which is actually backed up by studies). [/quote]

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