Anonymous wrote:I don't think they're trashy. I think they're stupid. Last year's meaningful tattoo is next year's overused cliche. Trends come and go. 20 years ago, a lower back tattoo was sexy. 20 years later, it's just a big blurry tramp stamp on a middle aged woman. Even the ones that look nice right now are going to blur over time. Some old tattoos look more like a skin condition than a picture.

My kids are 25 — no tattoos. Also no tattoos on professional immigrants they work with, so there’s the bracket. 20s to 43. Now going out of style?

Come on.. what's not to love, they only get better with age.

Anonymous wrote:Starting in 1981, tattoos were standard issue to babies upon leaving the maternity ward. We all have them.

In prisons?

Anonymous wrote:Starting in 1981, tattoos were standard issue to babies upon leaving the maternity ward. We all have them.

ALIENS!!!!!

Good point ^

I don't think they're trashy. I think they're stupid. Last year's meaningful tattoo is next year's overused cliche. Trends come and go. 20 years ago, a lower back tattoo was sexy. 20 years later, it's just a big blurry tramp stamp on a middle aged woman. Even the ones that look nice right now are going to blur over time. Some old tattoos look more like a skin condition than a picture.

I am a millennial and I don't like them on women. On men, hopefully I can't see them at work

Anonymous wrote:Starting in 1981, tattoos were standard issue to babies upon leaving the maternity ward. We all have them.

What?

Anonymous wrote:I am an older non-white millennial (34) and I am worried about the white people in general. The gross tattoos, voting for Trump, dying en masse from Opioids, in debt up to their eyeballs. It’s not a good look.

Agree. Plus points for clever phrasing.

I’m 35 and would never get one. I don’t think they are all trashy, but many are.

I’m 32 and don’t have any tattoos. Neither do any of my friends or dh. I do think they’re trashy and lower class

I'm 33. I don't think they are trashy as a blanket statement. Some are, some aren't. That seems to be the general consensus of most of my friends. And sometimes it depends on the person. My friend's husband is rock/hipster type and all the tats work on him. Those same tats would look ridiculous on my preppy/dad attire husband

I’m a millennial (33) and don’t have one, feel I’m in the minority. I don’t think they’re trashy necessarily, but they can be.

Anonymous wrote:At 43 I sometimes feel like I am the youngest person without a tattoo. There’s like this dividing line and Whoosh they became routine. Not judging it, more of an observation.

I was born in '79 and don't have one. It was one of my mom's firm rules that has lasted into my adulthood: no tattoos, no smoking, no motorcycles.

I wouldn't say they are trashy. I work in the military and see a lot of tattoos on perfectly nice people; I also think indigenous people's traditional tattoos are really interesting. It's just not for me.

I’m 38 and know many people with tattoos, including my husband. We have a bunch of military/law enforcement friends with plenty of tattoos. Generally conservative crowd, very white. I also work for a super liberal, super casual nonprofit. Very diverse, very tattooed.

So no, I don’t think tattoos are trashy. I like them. A lot of different kinds of people like them, and liking them doesn’t make you trashy. But I think calling people who like them trashy is pretty damn trashy. Being judgmental over art is not a good look.