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What you find attractive today may be completely different in 10-20-30 years, but you are stuck with it.
And I might get hit by a bus tomorrow.
I refuse to live my life in fear of what "may be", when there are no indicators that it WILL be. The only thing I can do is make the best decisions with the information available.
Because in a culture/civilization on the rise the lower classes try to copy the behavior of the upper classes.
In a civilization on the the decline the middle and upper classes copy the behavior of the dregs of society.
What a complete load of garbage this is.
Have you got any evidence, at all, to back up this silly claim?
...Just wish that if they were going to get tatts that they would find a talented artist to do beautiful work...not just anyone who puts up a sign that says TATTOOS.
I can certainly agree with you on this point, Oleg.
Of course how we feel about tattoos and actually anything is based on our age and how we were raised.
My father was a career Army Officer. He was born in 1915 and died in 1974. His father was the official tailor and uniform maker at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, OK. My father had very anti tattoo attitude. What he saw in the penitentiary was of course the lowest of the low and not at all an art form. What he saw in the military was the result of a bunch of drunk sailors on shore leave.
I can't stand tattoos. I think they look cheap and creepy and now everybody looks like everybody else all inked up. I realize I am biased because of my age and my father's vocal responses to what he saw. I have 4 children, two of whom are grown. Thank God they have no interest in tatts and they know how I feel. My 30 year old PhD son is really turned off by them on women and says they all have the same butterfly in the small of their backs which look ridiculous.
I think it is a fad run amuck. Years ago Cher had some and she thought she was unique but when everybody and their brother (and sister) started getting the, she had hers erased. Not everybody can afford to erase the mistakes of their youth.
And the full facial tattoos are meant to frighten people and keep people at a distance. Very sad indeed.
Tattoos are the evidence. Only the lowest of the low such as outlaw bilkers and murderers had tattoos 25 years ago. Now everyone has them.
That is just not true at all. Both of my twin uncles had them and neither were outlaw bikers or murderers. Both of my brothers had them as well, again, neither of them were outlaws.
There is definitely a genration gap in terms of the "acceptableness" of tattoos. My mom thinks they are awful. She always says "they won't look good when you get old and fat."
Now, people without tattoos are almost in the minority for people under about 35. Probably a minority for the 18-25s.
As for the "professional" jobs? It depends a lot on your industry and unfortunately your ethnic group. If you are white, you can get away with a visible tattoo and no one will say much about it. If you are latino or black, good luck with that -- you probably won't even get the job. Most "ethnic" people I know keep them covered up to avoid being stereotypes.
When I was in my teens, I knew one guy with a tattoo. He went to a neighboring state (they were illegal for people under 18 or something in our state) and came back on Monday to show us his prized acquisition. A new Tweety Bird tattoo on his upper arm. He later went on to join the Marines, and is a state-level politician, aiming to move up higher. Not sure if he got more tattoos.
People get tattoos for different reasons: art, rebellion, to overcome painful memories, to start a new chapter in their lives, to become more attractive or something else. Just like every other way we manipulate our physical appearance.
One of the biggest businesses now days is tattoo removal. But it is an expensive and painful process.
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