AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:Never wanted one but never much cared if people had them. That said, never understood the excessive tattoos either. Girl that used to work at the office had like 20. One was of her 3 children and it was on her calf muscle. Easily one of the worst tattoos I've ever seen. The teeth looked black and all that stuff.
I've never seen a photo tattoo that didn't look like hell.
I guess what spurred this was last night we were at dinner and these two girls who were probably once cute were standing with us waiting to be seated. I suspect from the lack of teeth, poverty colored hair, dead eyes, and not pleasant smell they were into meth. Both had tank tops on and both had just these got off flowery tattoos across their chest. Other questionable tats on their arms, one had a neck tattoo. Both had leg tattoos. I guess it's my own prejudice but I can't imagine either of them having much of a career. Of course they could turn it around but at least for right I doubt it. I feel like I see a pretty large number of people like them around here. Enough to know the type anyway.
AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:Never wanted one but never much cared if people had them. That said, never understood the excessive tattoos either. Girl that used to work at the office had like 20. One was of her 3 children and it was on her calf muscle. Easily one of the worst tattoos I've ever seen. The teeth looked black and all that stuff.
I've never seen a photo tattoo that didn't look like hell.
I guess what spurred this was last night we were at dinner and these two girls who were probably once cute were standing with us waiting to be seated. I suspect from the lack of teeth, poverty colored hair, dead eyes, and not pleasant smell they were into meth. Both had tank tops on and both had just these got off flowery tattoos across their chest. Other questionable tats on their arms, one had a neck tattoo. Both had leg tattoos. I guess it's my own prejudice but I can't imagine either of them having much of a career. Of course they could turn it around but at least for right I doubt it. I feel like I see a pretty large number of people like them around here. Enough to know the type anyway.
It doesn't sound like tattoos are the biggest obstacle for them.
My fiancé has about 16 tattoos. They are almost 100% coverable. She said she went through a phase in college when she had cancer. None of them are stupid or gross. The one covering 90% of her back is the tree of life, and is really neat looking. The rest are autism puzzle pieces, music stuff (she's a music therapist), fleur de lis or however you spell it, a guitar pick, etc.
I have zero tattoos, and very few people in my family have tattoos. Nobody cares about hers, nor should they. It's pretty common these days. Even police officers have them these days.
Freed Roger wrote:Not for me, but doesn't bother me a bit when others do it.
It kinda bothers me when I know they get a check from the govt and they have tattoos all over.
I can relate to this feeling. I have a HS friend who I'm still in semi-regular contact with. Despite having a typical white, middle class privilege/upbringing, he hasn't done much for himself. I know he gets gov't money and yet he has found the money to pay for several tats. It bothers me.
Like most of us, I grew up in the Midwest, in a very conservative environment until I was in High School, no less, and always saw tattoos in bad taste.
Then I ended up dating a girl who had many tattoos. I didn't mind what she had because I loved who she was. Still love her, even though I haven't spoken to her in over a year.
One day, she got a larger new one that surprised me, although maybe it shouldn't have. It was confusing on how to feel to say the least; vexed would be a good word. But overtime I realized it wasn't really so much that I didn't like how it looked, but how I knew other people would end up judging her unfairly by it - because I knew that way of thinking. And at the end of the day, my thoughts on it were probably more contorted due to some kind of Freudian version of "tattoo envy" because she was so confident to get what she wanted. Even if I did want one, I could never, because I couldn't shake that mindset of what other people would think.
Get what you want, or don't. As much as you might think it signifies being trashing or whatever, it might as well just be an outward indication of a beautifully unique person inside. Whether a person has tattoos... it doesn't tell you anything about who they are so it's pointless to judge on it. Anything else is just prejudice.
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I guess I just never liked any symbol or image enough to have it permanently etched on my body. It's pretty amazing how like even middle aged bank managers have neck and hand tats now though.
Not trying to raise a stink here because I don't think people consider it much. White trash is kind of a backhanded racist comment. As if you have to find a way to distinguish the "bad" whites from the rest who are presumably inherently good. The implication is you don't need to make this distinction for other races.
ghostrunner wrote:Not trying to raise a stink here because I don't think people consider it much. White trash is kind of a backhanded racist comment. As if you have to find a way to distinguish the "bad" whites from the rest who are presumably inherently good. The implication is you don't need to make this distinction for other races.
Other issue is that tattoos are ubiquitous across race and socioeconomic groups. So it's a problematic term to use and not actually even relevant to who is tattooed and who isn't.
heyzeus wrote:I guess I just never liked any symbol or image enough to have it permanently etched on my body.
This was me until recently. I always kind of wanted one but didn't want anything specific. Now I've had something specific for a couple of years but I've avoided getting it done out of laziness and it just not being a priority. I think it'll happen this fall when I visit my sister's family. She and her husband are hipster tattoo people and have a friend who's a good tattoo artist.
