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Why Don't People Understand that Too Many Tattoos Make Them Look Trashy?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1305195:MV8xNTI3ODAyXzI1MjE1OTIzXzRBRDYyRjU0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1292002] [quote:ApocalypseWars.com] What a bunch of sad people to judge others like this from behind your computers. I can only imagine what some of you look like and what your souls look like. What you do not realize is that it is you all who are disgusting inside and not the people with tattoos. [/quote] No I disagree. I think it is silly to get elaborate ink tattoos, like you said, just to prove how outlaw you are. People who have tattoos from jail or the millitary at least have some reason for them, like a real feeling of being outcast and abused. These yuppies with tattoos are the biggest jokes because they never suffered like that. They don't know what it is like to be on the outside of anything. I find that the ink just goes to their heads and they get very creepy personalities and attitudes. They get all arrogant and self rightous over nothing, as if their tattoos prove how downtrodden they are. [/quote] Exactly. When guys in prison or in the military get tattoos--that makes sense, especially if a group of guys get tattoos symbolizing their struggle together. But when narcissistic civilians get them, 95% of the time it's for some b.s. reason. Either they make up some imaginary symbolism for themselves, and then insist on believing in that one idea their whole life long to justify having a tattoo of it, or else they get tattoos of silly stuff like cartoon characters or flowers. I know a guy who has Tazz the Tasmanian Devil on his arm. I know someone else who has Bugs Bunny on his chest. Why the hell would someone want copyrighted cartoon characters owned by corporations permanently on their damn body? You don't even have to be religious or think that "the body is a temple" to shake your head in shame over that stuff. Isn't your body infinitely more meaningful to you than a crude drawing of Mickey Mouse or a scrawling of barb wire or some crap? Then there are the girls who get a tiny little flower on their ankle or under their wrist. It's like they just want to go through with getting a silly little tattoo just as some sort of psychological ritual to prove that they're mature now. Except getting those tattoos proves just the opposite. It proves they're still silly little children searching to do something rash and drastic to give their life meaning. That article someone posted about tattoos representing low self-esteem is dead on. In my opinion, it's not the tattoos themselves that are the problem-- it's what they usually say about person. It usually means they're insecure. I've known many people who have gotten tattoos of Chinese and Japanese symbols, thinking that they meant certain things, only to find out years later that the symbols didn't really mean what they thought they meant. In some cases, the symbols weren't real Chinese or Japanese at all. But the people just put them on their bodies permanently, without looking into things at all. This is how thoughtless these people are and how desperate they are to find some meaning in their life. All that said, I don't discriminate against people with tattoos in any realistic way. It's not like I'm not going to go to a cashier if s/he has lots of tattoos. It's not like I automatically consider everyone with tattoos an idiot. But it's just one clue you have to take into account when you're sizing someone up. It's unfortunate, because some tattoos are very good artwork, and some people with tattoos are really thoughtful people, but over the last decade or so, more and more people who have tattoos turn out to be really big idiots, in my experience, at least. Some people are trying to defend tattooing because it's "tribal". Why is something automatically good if it's "tribal"? I agree that more so-called "primitive" peoples didn't have a lot of the falseness and corporatized brainwashing that modern society has. But "tribal" people fell for a lot of their own sort of brainwashing and b.s. rituals. They did human sacrifices. They sometimes killed their first-born babies. They forced women or random children to undergo horrifying acts. And sometimes they also branded themselves with tattoos because they thought that gave them an artificially "holy" status. In most cases, it didn't. Tattooing is mostly just an easy way to impose false meaning onto a person. [/quote]
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I miss the days when the only people who had tattoos were criminals, bikers, Carnival workers or sometimes military.
These people today with full sleeves or neck and face tattoos just make me think there must be some deep seeded psychological issues or something. It's like you're begging to be discriminated against.
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