Ew. Ew ew ew.
There there, you don’t have to have a nose piercing if you don’t like them.
Even men don’t have to have earrings if they don’t like them, although I persist in considering that to be a downright sinful waste of hotness potential in almost every case. I guess we can’t have a world where every guy is sporting a sexy earring though, it would become too difficult to get any work done.
My granddaughter had an ear tunnel a couple of years ago. I rarely see her, but don’t those things grow back?
My beautiful sparkly enchanted baby…
Okay. She will be 23 in a few days.
Body piercing a minor without parental permission is against the law in most states.
Calm down. Based on what I’ve read of you, I don’t think you’re at all about deliberately pissing anybody off. But I also don’t think (but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) that you’re about coming across as so insular and self-obsessed as to be totally ignorant.
That’s what I get for commenting without actually seeing the guy. I just assumed that, if the OP is noticing the earring, it must be pretty gaudy. I’ve seen that guy a bunch of times, and I never noticed his earring.
And studs are okay as long as they aren’t shiny enough to catch the light. When I think earrings, I think of actual rings, or hoops or something.
And it’s precisely because it makes you “more attractive” that I have a problem with it. When I see a female with earrings, I think they are trying to get people’s attention. When I see a male with them, I think he’s trying to get female attention.
It’s irrational, I know.
The number of men (regardless of ethnicity) I’ve seen lately (being the last couple of years) wearing earrings has been… zero. Must be an American thing.
A guy I know from the UK has two.
You need to get out more. I’m Australian, and I’d say around 50% of the guys I know have a lobe or two pierced. And, as I stated above, I’m 44. It’s not like I don’t know anyone who lives in the 'burbs and has a proper job.
I work in retail and have done for years. I see a lot of people. None of the guys I’ve noticed have sparkly-costume-jewellery-type earrings.
I see heaps of guys who look like they’ve got part of a socket-spanner kit in their ear, or have plain rings as part of some sort of alternative culture thing happening, but earrings like your wife/girlfriend/mum/sister? Zero.
Unfortunately I still have to look at them. 
I live & work in an area where lots of people have ear plugs and it’s a style that’s moved into the realm of normal and not worthy of comment for me.
But that picture is just wrong.
Note to self: when visiting Australia, do not bother to scope out the male natives for hot ears.
Note to self: disregard previous note.
Yes, yes it is.
Whoa! You kids have been busy!
I didn’t intend this to be a pit thread, hence the smiley face in the OP and the posting in IMHO. However, when you get knee-jerk reactions like:
and
you just have to love it! :rolleyes:
I haven’t had a chance to read all postings, but I did a quick skim to find some fun posts, like the one from DanBlather. AClockworkMelon’s posts aren’t very interesting, but at a 35 posts/day pace, how can they be?
Hmm. Since you are so worked up over it, why don’t you tell us what it means to YOU. You can tell us from your Ivory Tower. (HAW! :D) To me, it was a (wait for it)… joke. It simplified the equation, since being jewish isn’t a race, or a color… I didn’t want any jew offended that I lumped poor Morley into the “white” category, especially if Morley doesn’t consider himself “white”. I could have tossed him in the “old bastard who wears tablecloths for shirts” group, but that seemed unfair.
Yeah. Look at me. :dubious:
I’m sure there is more fun to be had in this thread. I’ll read through it all in the next day or so when I have some time and get back to you all if there is anything worth responding to. Since it’s now in the pit, I’ll have to scrape up some rage :mad:
I’m white and I have three earrings, not to mention an eyebrow pierce. Also, pace BigT, I can assure you all it has nothing to do with female attention.
I don’t really care either way. I don’t understand jewellery full stop - it seems a bit too caveman “ug ug me like shiny metal” - but to each their own.
However, Sweden’s Finance Minister, Anders Borg, is white, has an earing AND a ponytail. He probably has the most punchable face in modern politics.
OMG, and “smart-guy” round glasses and a “smart-guy” slightly receding hairline and a sexy shadow of stubble. [swoooooooooooon]
I simply do not understand (hetero) men’s reactions to other men. I may not be turned on by self-consciously “hip” or bohemian looks on other women, but never in my life have I felt the slightest desire, even jokingly, to punch another woman’s face on account of her looks or style choices.
Hey, I’m not hetero, and I kinda want to punch that guy, too.
Couldn’t really tell you why. Some dudes just need punchin’, I guess.
I guess it is the male way of doing “bitchy”.