And that is the key difference which should be obvious to anyone.
I am ambivalent about tattoos. I was trying to think of any sort of tattoo that would make me leave a naked woman in the middle of some action. I am Jewish so the first thing that occurred to me was Nazi tattoos. Then I realized that the better move would be to fuck her brains out and then go for the reveal.
I’ve never understood why some people feel so incredibly strongly about tattoos. I could see not liking really big tattoos, or offensive tattoos, but the people who violently hate even the most innocuous little butterfly are beyond me. It’s such a weird thing to care that much about.
I have a small tattoo on my back that is covered 99% of the time and most people don’t know I have it. Every once in a while the topic of tattoos comes up and inevitably someone spouts off about how disgusting and terrible they are. I always let them go on for a while and then tell them that I actually have a tattoo, and I always enjoy the backpedalling that then occurs. I’ve never encountered someone who has continued to bad-mouth them after I revealed mine, and I suspect Clothahump (and others) are exaggerating greatly when they claim to act that way in real life. I think it’s probably an internet tough-guy act. There’s no way I believe that he really turned down sex with a pleasant girl that he really liked just because of a tiny tattoo.
Also, I’ve never seen a tattoo that looked anything like a suppurating sore.
The strange thing is that while Clothahump has such a terrible reputation on this board (as this thread indicates) I’ve met him several times and he’s really a great guy in person. We don’t agree on politics but it’s never been an issue in any conversation we’ve had.
I’ve found this near-universally true. Mostly because the kind of person who wants to meet other people in real life and goes out of his way (i.e., to a Dopefest) to do it is usually not the kind of person who does it just to alienate people.
The distance created by usernames and text decreases the empathy of basically all communications online by a huge amount, because when you’re publishing an anonymous letter to an anonymous audience, it’s far easier to tell those idiots what you really thing, they aren’t probably even human.