Most people care what other people think to some extent, but I think your opinion doesn’t matter at all to the people who get tattoos. It’s the people they know and love whose opinions matter, and tattoo-ees are probably unlikely to spend time with people who seem as self-righteous and prejudiced as you do.
As far as your comment about physical abuse, the only thing that makes me think is that YOU might have been physically abused. See, I’ve been there and as Leonard Cohen once wrote, I’ve been where you’re hanging, I think I can see how you’re pinned. In my own journey to recovery from abuse, I breifly became a psycho-pop nazi and thought that everything that applied to me applied to ALL abused people. Of course, I was twenty-one years old at the time and got over that quickly, thankfully. If this is indeed the case with you, then I wish you the best of luck. And please, quit belittling people, especially women. It makes you look skanky.
FWIW - my dad - the retired, crusty old army colonel - has 3 tatoos.
He’s 65.
The look perfectly fine - as clear as they ever were (they’re just plain blue). The thing is, the majority of people - dad included - don’t gain and lose huge amounts of weight in their life - nope, not even with pregnancy - I think 30-40 lbs is average. Human skin can snap back from that pretty quickly - you see lots of women who have children and still have nice flat bellys. My dad lost and gained about 40 lbs when he had major surgery a few years ago. Yep - the tatoos still look fine.
Unless someone is planing on gaining and losing huge amounts of weight their tatoos will be just fine.
Second, suggesting that any person who gets a tatoo has any sort of emotional problem, whatsoever, is absurd. Yes, I’m speaking as a psychology student. Oh wait - I just checked with my dad (who’s delighted to hear that you called him a skanky ho) - a registered psychologist - yep - that’s total bullshit. The books you linked to apply to a small percentage of the population. That’s it.
Finally, none of the women who are getting tatoos are getting them for the viewing pleasure of you MD. Trust me, they’re not.
Really, this thread was a bad idea. It makes you look like a jackass. “WOMEN SHOULD GET TATOOS BECAUSE I THINK THEY LOOK SKANKY!!” Uh huh.
Al. Who has no tatoos or facial piercings, whatsoever, and still thinks you look like a jerk.
I’m new to this thread, so forgive me if someone has already beaten the crap out of Muad’Dib
BUT…
Muad’Dib - Who do you think you are?
How dare you be so generic in your comments, and then insults?
My girlfriend (A Member of this board) has two attractive tattoos. Both are very tasteful, and add something unique to her beauty.
She was beautiful without them. She is beautiful with them (Notice I did not say more beautiful. They simply give her a more unique look)
Why don’t you take your generic insults, your lack of appreciation for people who have minds that know more freedom than your puritanical trapped mind, and promptly drop dead? I’ll be sure to applaud and ask you for an encore.
You probably won’t see many, if any famous beauties with tattoos, that’s true. However, that’s because for actresses an obvious tattoo would be an impediment to playing many roles, and models need to be a ‘blank canvas’ for the stylist to work on. It’s not because they think tattoos are bad things, just because they don’t fit in with their jobs.
I totally disagree with the OP’s tone and phrasing. It’s also wrong to try to tell people what to do with their own bodies. All the same, he may be an asshole, but he’s not totally talking out of his ass.
Although quite a few middle-class, professional, educated women are getting tattoos now, in the past that wasn’t true. While individuals may buck the statistics, on the whole working-class and underclass women are far more likely to have tattoos than middle-class women.* That is based on my own personal observations, since I can’t find any cites correlating class/income and tattooing, but I think my observations are valid, at least for the UK. Thus for many people there is a strong association between tattoos and low socioeconomic status. It’s class prejudice.
Of course, if you have a tattoo you might not care about the opinions of those prejudiced people, but that doesn’t mean those opinions don’t exist, which some people in this thread seem to be saying. And some otherwise quite pleasant people have an unconscious class prejudice; they might be people whose opinions you do care about, like your parents or your boss.
I doubt anyone would care about the opinion of some bloke who’d pass them up because of a tattoo though. ‘Men won’t find it attractive’ has never been a good argument for anything.
*in case anyone asks, I’ll take middles class to mean C1 and above, working class C2 and below.
xjetgirlx - LOL, that makes my argument about ‘famous beauties’ rather tenuous! How many of those tattoos are in really visible places though? One the arms as opposed to the stomach?
Tatts on women…don’t like 'em. OK? If you fell the need to get tattoos, by all means knock yourself out. Just think in another 25 years how sexy that faded ink bloob is gonna look.
I was under the impression, mod29, that after any initial fading (i.e. first month), subsequent fading is slim to none. What factual support do you have to back up your claim?
Yep, that opinion hasn’t been expressed, nor debunked, in this thread alone, before. Alas, I didn’t know it, but I suppose I’d been saving my “first” for a time just like this one… so here goes. :rolleyes:
Ah, I feel better already. Oh, and yeah, when I’m in my nursing home years, I’ll care just how sexy I’m looking on my friggin’ ankle to some uptight 90 year old moron residing next door. Emphasis on uptight. Pffft.
