The two examples that come to mind: Stallone and Alizee.
(If you don’t know who Alizee is, she is a cute french singer, or at least she was)
The usual shtick is that it’s some kind of personal expression or something. But how can any tattoo ever possibly be better than actual clear healthy skin?
The last time I made a thread like this (on another forum) some people were deeply, deeply offended at my comments about tattoo’s (Although I may have said tattoos were a waste of perfectly good skin. Which actually I did say but never mind that now). But I’m hoping cooler heads prevail here.
To me, clear healthy skin is something to be valued, grateful for, and looked after. So I just don’t understand people who are going through life, and then suddenly one day decide they want to look like a walking comic book.
The one example I can understand is the Maori, it’s cultural, it’s ancestral, it’s deeply significant to them. But the crap that westerners cover themselves with there’s just no excuse for.
Or maybe there’s just something I’m not seeing about the whole thing?
Also, my God, Alizee what have you done to yourself.
I don’t really understand what you’re getting at. Are you insulting people who cover themselves with tattoos, or anybody who gets a tattoo? They are totally different things. I don’t understand people who get covered with tattoos, either, but that’s what they want to do, so what business is it of mine? I think the single or two tattoos actually set off beautiful skin even better, but what do I know, I have a single tattoo, so I am biased.
people who have low self esteem might get tats to make themselves be more spectacular.
people who have high self esteem might get tats knowing that even if some people have a negative opinion of them that they still feel good about themselves.
people who get tats are self esteem extremists or something else altogether.
Because, believe it or not, some people don’t get tattoos because they’re rebelling, trying to be different, or have an addiction. Some people just plain like tattoos.
I know, it’s shocking, isn’t it?
We have this discussion every single month. You don’t like tattoos? Fine. Don’t get one.
I love my tattoo. It’s small, and subtle, so you’d rarely notice it. People have noticed it, but it’s not obvious. It’s a link to my culture and my home. And when I’m old and gray I won’t be thinking “Oh, I wish I never got this stupid thing” but “dammit, i was brave enough to go get it. Wasn’t that an experience! It was exciting! It hurt but not as much as I thought.”
Each time one of these threads bubbles up, I wonder what glitch occurred during the concrete operational stage. Crab007, did you start this thread to complain about your dislike of tattoos and hope for a flurry of “me toos”, or do you actually believe that tattooed persons will apologize for offending your aesthetic sensibilities and take steps to make themselves more appealing to you?
Do you think Alizee will find herself broken hearted and ashamed by your rejection, or is it possible your opinions have no bearing on her interest in you?
I’m asking not to needle you (I hear you’re not into that) but to learn how to teach empathy and tolerance to my child. She’s an only, and I don’t want her to go through life convinced that her POV supersedes the personal choice of others, or feels compelled to insult and criticize others who make choices she wouldn’t.
WHY do we have to have this same thread about the inexplicableness of tattoos about every six months? Geesh. Why does anyone do anything? Because they like it / want to / means something to them / whatever. Personally, and all my ink is easily covered so no one knows I have it unless I want them to, I’ve found it’s a good first step filtration system. If someone judges me harshly upon initial meeting, they’re not someone I’d want to get to know anyway. I don’t hang with judgmental people like that. Only ones that care about the actual person, not the external shell.
I think anybody who covers him or herself in tattoo’s simply happens to be a bad speller. Given how many people don’t know the difference between an apostrophe and a mountain of lasagna, they aren’t even particularly bad spellers.
