How do you feel about tattooed people?

Someone I know has a partial tattoo, when asked why they didn't finish the tattoo they said they sobered up in a hurry.

 

That's silly, and false.

Jewelry is not expensive at all. Except for the most high end stuff.

 

Depends where her tattoo is.
Enjoy!

 

I wonder about the issues people have which cause them to mutilate themselves.

 

I really hate tattoos. If they mean something you're probably a criminal. If they don't mean something it's because you wanted to look like a criminal but in reality you just got cinco de mayo sleeves while hammered in Tijuana and are a total (*)(*)(*)(*)(*).

 

Interestingly enough, I noticed a large tattoo on the leg of my manager when she went on a call with me. Not exactly subtle but not a total degradation of her body, though I couldn't tell what it was. But its true....I passed a thought thinking she might have a biker past. I have issues with people who want to be a tattoo...instead of simply using it as a complementary adornment.

 

Well, I am prime example of how wrong your assumption would be.
I work in corporate America, oh well hell, instead of me explaining myself to you, click on my name and check out my picture and my profile.

I'm sorry you feel disgusted by people who have tattoos. It is an old traditon with a deep, cultural meaning.
My daughter asks me what they are and I am proud to tell her that they are symbols of the life we have.

Hopefully one day someone can change your view on these wonderful arts. (Well, arts being that they are done correctly and professionally.) You can usually tell the drug addicts/gangsters (HAHA) from the real people - jailhouse tats, man.

 

Like you're going to look like an underwear model at 80 if only you didn't have that tattoo.

 

i'm a bit torn.

I really like a lot of the art that I see in tattoos.

But I don't like putting them on skin. I much prefer seeing them on paper.

Or in digital formats.

 

That's my viewpoint too. Also, as others have pointed out, they deteriorate over time from tanning, weight changes and age.

I saw one attractive young lady with a verse of scripture on her back and right shoulder. While it was nicely done, it was in such fine script that I knew by the time she turned 30 it would be unreadable.

Many young people seem to have them ranging from a princess tattoo or bicep tribal to multiple tattoos. A common thing among all people, especially the young, is a "search for identity". Something the 60s and 70s generation of my time referred to as "finding ourselves". The obvious problem with tattoos, as you aptly pointed out, is that unlike jewelry, bell-bottom pants, tie-dyed t-shirts and long hair, tattoos are permanent. Sure, very expensive and painful laser-removal techniques are available, but they are not perfect.

Agelina Jolie certainly has the money for the best tattoo removal treatments and even she had to resort to a removal/cover-up tattoo to hide her former "Billy Bob" tattoo. Why do middle-class young men and women think they can do better?

 

I'm struck by the number of people in this thread who are gravely concerned with what other people do. If you don't like tattoos, don't get one. If you don't like a "sleeve", don't get one. If you do, knock yourself out. But why in the (*)(*)(*)(*) are so many of you so judgemental about what other people, who you don't even know, are choosing to do?

 

Agreed. Not tell that to the anti-gun crowd.....most of whom have tattoos.

 

I have tatts and guns. Out of sheer coincidence, at this exact moment in time, the same number of both. Though I expect over time, I'll get more of both as well.

 

Uhm ... and how would you feel about a tattooed woman with piercing?

Personally I'm not tattooed and I don't carry piercing on my body, anyway here in Italy it's a fashion [at least piercing, about tattoos it's less common, actually].

It depends on the kind and on the dimension of the tattoos. It happens I find them disturbing, but they can be nice and suitable for the person carrying them.

 

A hearty Second Amendment salute to you!

I have several guns, but no tattoos. I have scars instead from a life-time of adventure.

 

It's good for the economy; keeps people employed. Individually it's your body, so do what you want to do to it.

 

To paraphrase:
"To tat or not to tat, that is the question".
Enjoy!

 

Do you wonder the same about women (or men) who have their ears pierced? It's all 'mutilation', if one chooses to look at it that way.

That's the thing - some people (I'm certainly not suggesting you at all, just making a point!) think it's acceptable for a women to have one piercing in each ear, but not to have two, or not to have a piercing in their nose or eyebrow or whatever, or not acceptable for a man at all. Likewise, it's acceptable to some to have one ear piercing, but not one tattoo. People can be so ridiculous, really. It's a matter of taste - some people like tattoos and piercings, some people do not - of nobody is forcing anybody to do it, it's not really anybody's business but the person who is having it done.

Why would someone be scared or disturbed or disgusted because another person has decided that they like to decorate their own body in a certain way? I just don't get that. I don't understand why anybody would find that intimidating or disgusting in itself - surely if they do it is for them to learn to get over it, not for anybody else to hide, or not make, their own free choices?

Now obviously some people do get tattooed in particular ways that can be genuinely disturbing to others - 'white power' stuff, 'gang' stuff and so on - stuff that's there to promote or identify them with a particular disturbing agenda. The disturbing thing is the content of the tattoo, though, not just that they have had a tattoo. The vast majority of people with tats and piercings don't have 'issues' or 'agendas' or anything of the sort - they like the way they look (and they can be very beautiful and artistic designs), and particular designs might have particular personal meanings to them. That's obviously more mainstream now than ever before, but tattooing and piercing have long been a normal part of certain cultures and sub-cultures all over the world. There's nothign wrong with that - why should anybody have to conform to anyone else's view? It's about personal decoration and personal style choices, not about 'issues' and 'mutilation'.

The worst thing about such ideas about tattoos and piercings is that it can promote among some the idea that it's OK to discriminate against people who are 'different' because of nothing more than the way they choose to look. The idea that such people are somehow 'weird' or 'freaks', and don't deserve to be treated like other 'normal' people because they are somehow 'bad' or 'inferior'. It's not something that usually gets a lot of media attention, but it's a very real issue and a very real problem just like discrimination on the basis of race, sexuality or anything else.

Piercings and hairstyle rather than tattoos particularly in this case, but does anybody find this girl disgusting or intimidating? Anybody think she's a bad person because she 'looks like a freak'?


Here's another picture of her, in hospital on her deathbed after a vicious and ultimately fatal attack because of the way she looked:

How about now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sophie_Lancaster

Does anybody now see why it is wrong to promote the idea that there is something wrong with people choosing to look 'different'?

http://www.sophielancasterfoundation.com/

 

Generally, I do not find "Body Art" in any way attractive. During my dating years, I would in fact avoid any female who was tattooed and left a few once I noted one "hidden from view".

 

I don't think anyone here, those posting, advocate violence against the multi-pierced and/or tattooed individual. From a corporate perspective, the multi-pierced and/or tattooed individual is indicative of impulsive behavior. It's not fully thought out in other words. What may seem "cool" at 21 may not be at 40 or 50...and like it or not, we all age. It is also indicative of asocial and non-conformance. These are of course perceptions and may not be an accurate reflection of the multi-pierced and/or tattooed individual's character, but perceptions are important. Upon meeting someone, within 15 -20 seconds we have developed an opinion about them. This is just how it is.

We are judged by our outer appearance, whether it accurately reflects inner traits or not. Many regard multi-piercings and/or tattoos in a negative light at first glance. Societal trends do change over time and certainly tattoos are more common than they were say 30 years ago, where they were relegated to bikers, criminals and members of the military. Now it is almost common to see a soccer mom sporting an ankle tattoo. Regardless, I would estimate the majority of the population still look upon them negatively. As I say though, not to the point of inciting a violent response.

Maybe the psychotic will react violently towards the non-conformist, like the individuals who beat this poor girl to death...but no one with any empathy towards our fellow person, condones this sort of thing and those responsible should be imprisoned and separated from civil society for the remainder of their natural lives.

 

Of course, and I don't think that most people will react violently or anything, but those who will are influenced by the attitudes of those around them - the disgust and distaste that is expressed more generally translates into violence among the violent, as well as influencing the way that such individuals are treated more generally.

 

Isn't part of the motivation in getting a piercing or a tattoo to incite some sort of response? A hairstyle or hair coloring and choice of clothes are not permanent changes...even piercing jewelry can be removed. A tattoo is permanent. Laser removal is not cheap and there is no guarantee it will completely cover/remove the tattoo. I don't think I'll ever accept it as a positive decision. Why should I be obliged to change my opinion? I've no doubt I'm judged on some level as well by how I choose to dress and my outward appearance.

You can't legislate thought.

 

I don't like tattoos.. No one in my family has any.

 

I have yet to figure out how a girl who won't go out on a nice sunny day for fear of skin cancer can then go and purposely inflict a large and dangerous pre-cancerous lesion on herself and pay good money for it, because that's pretty much what a tattoo is, a scar. If smoking causes cancer tattoos almost surely must as tattoos are held in by intimate connection and constant irritation to the body's melanocytes, the starting place of melanoma, the most dangerous cancer there is

On a woman, large and noticeable tattoos are an abomination. Women's skin is meant to be clear, even Leonardo should feel like a philistine to sully such a perfect work of art as a woman's skin. On men they are simply silly, they turn you into a walking joke.

Yes, you're free to get one, even several. And I'm free to find you a perfect idiot, self-identified for doing so.

btw, if you think tattoos are perfectly acceptable try going to Japan one time. If you have large ones there you face social ostracism almost everywhere and even possible arrest. They are the emblem of Yakuza, Japan's ancient and very vicious organized crime gangs.

 

"Disgust or Distaste" are simply expressions of personal taste and preference. Just because I prefer to spend my time with a woman who is not decorated does not mean I am disgusted by those with a tattoo. I also avoid overweight women....but I am free to do so.