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Tattooed Women
2/22/15 | originalbuckeye

Posted on 02/22/2015 8:21:25 PM PST by originalbuckeye

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To: southern rock

I would not make that connection, lumping in overweight people with smokers and tattooed/pierced/smokers.

However, as a precursor to what I am about to say, I do believe everyone has a right (or at least should have a right) to do what they want if it doesn’t hurt anyone else.

I don’t mind a tattoo or two on men, arm, leg, chest, etc.

And I don’t find a small tattoo on a woman in an unobtrusive place to be unattractive.

And the fact that I find piercings completely repulsive (and a lot of intrusive tattoos to be quite unattractive) should not have any weight in what someone else does with their body. (I will say that sitting across the dinner table from someone with those damned pieces of metal coming down out of their nostrils is nauseating, but I can live with it as long as eating across from them isn’t a long term proposition.)

But to lump overweight people in with people who smoke, get tattoos, or piercings is not right.

People who are overweight do not deliberately choose to be that way, and in many cases, desperately would like to change.

Some smokers, too, would like to change (and I can give some of them the benefit of being addicted, which would make them more like an overweight person) but that cannot be said of someone with piercings or tattoos which are totally and completely 100% voluntary and intentional.

I have a kind of funny story along those lines. My wife and I went to a movie a few years ago, and the line was moving slowly to the ticket booth. As we got closer, I could see it was what looked like a thin, 16 year old boy with acne and glasses, but he also had what appeared to be a prosthetic on his lip or mouth, probably for some kind of cancer surgery. As we got closer, I was filled with pity for him, because going through adolescence is tough enough, never mind having some kind of physical deformity.

Then, when I got up there, I realized it wasn’t a prosthetic, but a series of about 20 metal rings on the left side of his upper lip, and another 20 rings on the lower lip. Looking back, the way I felt was humorous to me in retrospect, but at the time, I was so irritated I nearly spit. Here I was, feeling bad for this kid because I thought he had a deformity, and it was 100% intentional. I felt like I wasted valuable emotional capital on him!

Now, if I get a job interviewee, and they show up like that, they aren’t getting the job. I don’t care how well they do it, I am not hiring them, period. Same with someone with tattoos on the neck, face, and such. I work in a setting with patients, and I just won’t do it.

I won’t pass judgement on anyone for their God-given physical appearance, but if someone intentionally does that to themselves, I don’t have a problem being judgmental. If I worked in a different setting, it might not matter. But I am not going to have someone like that occupying a receptionist position and greeting patients, no matter what Hollywood would like us to think is common practice.

If that makes me a bad person, I will have to live with that, because I am not going to change.


161 posted on 02/23/2015 2:35:07 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: NorthMountain

Sentimental value, I suppose. I’ve had that ring longer than anything else I own. And what good is a ring if you don’t wear it?


162 posted on 02/23/2015 2:37:57 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

Hehehe...I didn’t get a class ring, but when I got out of Boot Camp, I got a Navy ring that looked just like a class ring, and gave it to a girl I had the hots for...

Never knew what became of that gal, or the ring...:)

Just another love-struck squid...


163 posted on 02/23/2015 3:48:47 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Chickensoup
Interesting. In our area, large families are a sign of status among 20 and 30 year old Christians

Well, that kinda makes the point. Being Christian, and by that I mean a devout, or evangelical Christian,is in and of itself a low social class indicator among most upper middle class crowds.

Think about it. There isn't a lot of scripture being discussed at the Merion Cricket Club.

164 posted on 02/23/2015 4:05:30 PM PST by southern rock
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To: sparklite2

OK ... Have you worn it regularly since you got it? “Rediscovered” it some time after HS?

Thanks.


165 posted on 02/23/2015 4:09:38 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Leave Julie Andrews alone!


166 posted on 02/23/2015 4:10:05 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: southern rock

Not really, I am thinking of the college grads, investment bankers, vets, military officers, commodity traders, software engineers, and medical doctors that I know. And their families.

As well as the really wealthy non Christians in our wealthy communities.


167 posted on 02/23/2015 4:12:17 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: rlmorel
I would not make that connection, lumping in overweight people with smokers and tattooed/pierced/smokers.

We are talking about social class. Obesity is definitely a low class giveaway. I am going to search for the study , but stats have shown, the lower the education level, the higher the weight.

168 posted on 02/23/2015 4:45:28 PM PST by southern rock
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To: Chickensoup
I am referring to social class, not money. They can correlate, but do not necessarily. Culture and education are better measuring devices. Using this yardstick, being evangelical, being military, having large families, smoking, being overweight are all lower class traits in many people's eyes. Having tattoos can be, but can also indicate a rebelliousness that removes the tattooed individual from the class structure itself.
169 posted on 02/23/2015 4:53:00 PM PST by southern rock
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To: southern rock

And what I am saying is that having large families is less a lower class trait these days. I am seeing larger and larger families among the tech and finance class and in towns that are normatively state leaders in finances per capita.


170 posted on 02/23/2015 5:01:14 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: southern rock

I understand what you are saying, but that wasn’t the point I was making. My point didn’t have anything to do with class.

It had to do with grouping obesity (which is almost completely non-voluntary) in with strictly voluntary activities such as smoking, tattooing and piercing.

I liken it to lumping someone who has a large birthmark on their face in with someone who paid money to get a tattoo on their face.

And, as I inferred, I do see there is a common ground between smoking, obesity and alcoholism, as they may all have a compelling psychological/physical fusion, but I just don’t see it in tattoos and piercing.


171 posted on 02/23/2015 9:11:14 PM PST by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: rlmorel
And, as I inferred, I do see there is a common ground between smoking, obesity and alcoholism, as they may all have a compelling psychological/physical fusion, but I just don’t see it in tattoos and piercing.

I hear you. And this is the reason that , I see pierced and tattooed people as having an "out" from the class structure entirely. Some tattooed guys, and particularly women can be trailer trashy, but a pierced up tatted up person, depending on their "look" , can get away with being of no class at all. They seem neither low , high, or middle, which is the intent with rebellion against norms, as cheesy as that "rebellion" may be.

172 posted on 02/24/2015 2:29:27 AM PST by southern rock
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To: arbitrary.squid
Just curious, do you eat shrimp or other shellfish? Do you mix wool and cotton and linen?

Now, there's a classic, liberal "comeback." It's kinda strange to see it here on Free Republic, though. What's your point? I inherently know tatoos are not a good thing, and there happens to be a point about it in the Bible. This bothers you, why?

173 posted on 02/24/2015 5:44:39 AM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: maddog55
John 7:24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

What are you talking about? Who's "judging by appearances" here? I instinctively know tattoos are not a good thing to do to oneself and simply point it out with a Scriptural admonition.

174 posted on 02/24/2015 5:47:38 AM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: dmz
How many people who trot that verse out can tell us (without looking it up) what verse 27 says. There are one heck of a lot more people breaking 27 than 28, but funny, you never hear a word about it. I wonder why that is? “You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.” New King James

I don't suppose you even understood my point. This is about tattoos. We have watched an unprecedented explosion of kids having tattoos and other forms of body mutilation in recent years. I inherently know tattoos are not a good thing to do to yourself, and point to a Scriptural reference about it. Not sure why that leads you down a rabbit trail of "what about all these other things?!" My point was simple. No need to over-think it.

175 posted on 02/24/2015 5:52:30 AM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: WXRGina

I’m just curious as to the reasoning involved when people point out one rule of the bible and ignore others in the same book.


176 posted on 02/24/2015 12:08:02 PM PST by arbitrary.squid
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To: arbitrary.squid
I’m just curious as to the reasoning involved when people point out one rule of the bible and ignore others in the same book.

No one is ignoring anything. If you understood what Jesus did at the cross, then you would understand that.

This is also a common sense issue. We should inherently know that doing this to our bodies, that are made in God's image, is dishonorable. That Scripture only reinforces this truth.

177 posted on 02/24/2015 6:30:22 PM PST by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Salamander

178 posted on 02/24/2015 8:19:14 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

179 posted on 02/24/2015 9:39:52 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: Salamander; Altariel

Tattooed and Bowlegged - That’s the ticket!

(And no. Mrs Shibumi is neither.)


180 posted on 02/25/2015 1:11:49 AM PST by shibumi ("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
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