Then why did you start this thread, you fucking jackass?
Reread the last paragraph you illiterate fuckwit.
Oh, you mean the part where you use your psychic powers to see into the very minds of young girls and read their deepest desires and motivations? Shouldn’t you be out fighting crime with that shit?
Oh I do. I am known as the Midnight Stalker. Protector of the innocent, scourge of the skanky.
Dictionary.com’s relevant definition of ‘skank’: One who is digustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl.
Nope, can’t imagine how anyone would miss the obvious teasing whimsy there or associate the word with “whore”.
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I already apologized for that.
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You don’t have a very good imagination.
Whoops, my bad.
Your post basically says that all women get tattoos to look more attractive to men, that we are too stupid to understand that it makes us less attractive to men and that what’s most unattractive about it is that it makes men think we have been abused or have willingly had too much sex. You also spend a lot of time arguing why it’s very important for women to accept these prejudices because they’re just the way it is and must be.
I am thinking you don’t feel sexism is as bad as racism.
That’s funny, because I consider tatooing to be one of the highest forms of art.
By its very nature, art is something that is personal and private. We can discuss art collectively, we can communiate our views and our values, but ultimately our experience with a work of art is exclusively our own.
Nothing expresses that concept like a tattoo. It is a very personal, very power form of expression.
I find it different to understand how anyone could not consider tattoos art. And as for their “classiness”… What is “classy” (or to borrow from another thread, “professional”) is an arbitrary standard. I’d say your standard coincides with the current mainstream standard, but that wasn’t always the case, and that likely won’t always be the case in the future.
It’s likely that tattoos won’t be accepted in a “professional” sphere for quite some time, but I consider that unfortunate. They’re not for everyone, certainly, but they do suit the people who have them quite well.
All I know is that if Winston Churchill’s mom and Wilford Brimley gots tattoos, then I’m in good company!
So there! Pbbbblt! 
No I don’t.
That is a loaded way to put it, but yes, most of the time I do believe tattoos look cheap.
That is not necessarily the way it must be (look at Samoa), but otherwise yes. Remember what I said about the guy with the open facial wound? I don’t care how much it means to you, if you are walking down the street with a large festering wound on your face people are going to think that you are a freak.
Fuck you. Sexism has nothing to do with it.
I am thinking that you are someone who reads what they want into an argument rather than what is said.
Hell with the company XJETGIRLX (is this a reference to an Naomi Watts film char?), tattoos, and piercings, are sexy as all hell!!
OK, I am biased I have (as a male) a fair number of both - funnily enough I also work in a white collar job - and wear my facial piercings.
Girls I find attractive - pierced and/or tattooed as well. They are not boring and mundane. Thinking about it (and I am in my mid thirties), I cannot remember thae last time I dated someone without piercings and tatts
I know what you mean. I do not believe that there is anything intrinsically bad about tattoos, and they very well could be a high form of art someday (especially once they stop trying to make the body conform to the tattoo and instead make the tattoo conform to the body), but until then there is a stigma that is not without cause attached to them that people have to live with.
Why yes, yes it is!
Actually, the first thing that would go through my mind is “The poor dear! I hope it’s not too painful!” You see, Muad hon, we don’t all immediately try to filter people into our own little categories of where they fit on our social spectrum. Some of us just see people.
I respect your right to your opinion, and I don’t think a single one of us has tried to wrest you of it, merely point out the other side. It’s sad that some of us get so defensive when talking about these kinds of things. Rather than trying to understand each other’s viewpoints (i.e., why you think they look bad, why we think they don’t make us look cheap) there’s this wall put up immediately.
I’m sorry that you feel the way you do, but as you have so forcefully pointed out the way you present yourself affects others’ opinion of you. I hope your close-mindedness in this respect does not keep you from meeting some wonderfully intelligent, fabulous tattooed person some day that meets your standards of class and respectability. Stranger things have happened, you know.
i agree too.
i mean, you see a perfectly beautiful young lady, she happens to bend over slighty, and you catch a glimpse of some big ol’ tribal tatooo on her back!
I can’t help but think “wtf!? don’t you know thats just a fad?”
Its SO Rid-icu-lous!
also, i speak from experience.
when i was a tween-ager i got a tattoo of a butterfly and i thought it was the coolest thing ever. I loved it.
That love soon faded to regret and
now as a women in my 30’s - i fucking hate it!
its looks so trashy and just plain dumb - ruining my otherwise beautiful breast.
I WILL get removed!
Okay – one more thing and I’ll shut up. Seriously.
How in the name of all that is holy can you keep tossing around that word ‘fad’? I mean, for chrissake, people have been tattooing themselves for just about as long as anyone knows! If you wanna harsh on specific types of tattoos and flash, go ahead (I’d be glad to contribute to that list) but continuing to say that people who are tattooed in general are following a fad is akin to saying anyone who has ever gotten their hair cut is following a fad.
I’d love to see what the people who are against tattoos look like. I’d like to see if they look “trashy,” “skanky,” or “classy.”
Personally, I have been told I look very classy, and my tattoos are almost always showing. I also get complimented on my appearance almost daily. It’s the total package, not the tattoo that defines your image.
its a fad cause its a phase. Especially with young girls (like myself) who think that getting tats are ‘so cool’ but later end up regretting it because, quite frankly, it just looks stupid.
serious, what 20 yr girl is going to think her ‘tribal back tattoo’ is cool when she enters her 30’s?
Probably not many:dubious: