VANITY: Tongue Piercings, Pros and cons

A concerned mother

[republicangel]

Would you hire an otherwise nice looking intelligent college girl for the summer if they have their tongue pierced? Major conflict going on here at the homestead.....

[Djarum]

Another thread on this topic

[Bikers4Bush]

We had a higher level manager (late 30's) where I work who had one and I didn't even realize she had it for about 9 months.

As long as your daughter doesn't go around sticking her toungue out and showing it off she shouldn't have a problem.

[Bikers4Bush]

The other aspect to consider is that girls who have them are not genreally deemed to have the highest morals.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Presuming she can speak clearly with a foreign object in her mouth!

I think this practice is just disgusting and makes the girl look like she's "on the make". Is she trying to pick up extra cash as a hooker?

Around here, a lot of places would not hire anyone wearing this extra hardware. Restaurants that I frequent make the girls take these things out or cover them up. I see one young waitress who always has a bandaid on her eyebrow. I asked her about it and she told me that the manager makes her cover up her eyebrow stud when she's on duty. Another restaurant I knw makes a young waitress remove her nose stud when waiting tables.

You'd think these kids would get the message.

[MotleyGirl70]

There's is only one reason why people get their tongue pierced! Need I say more? I'm no prude but I would question her motives. If she is an adult and she wants to mutilate her body, by all means let her do it. Personally my dad would have kicked my ass even if I was 25 or 30 years old and got my tongue piereced.

[MissouriForBush]

Over here in Germany, where I live right now, the tongue-piercings, eyebrow-piercings, nose-piercings, etc. are very much in vogue. The Germans are VERY conformist and all ages of people -- male and female -- do this. Now that I have said all that, here is my opinion on piercings (in places other than the female ear lobe): by all means do it if you want to exude a cheesy, tacky, trashy image.

[irishjuggler]

If I were you, republicangel, I wouldn't focus on the idea that the tongue piercing will stop your daughter from getting a job. It won't. I see plenty of pierced teens working in places like record stores, supermarkets, and the like. You should be concerned about the image your daughter is trying to project. There's about a 99% chance that she wants to present a "bad girl" image. If this doesn't worry you, it should.

[riley1992]

I have never thought a girl looked like a 'whore' for having her tongue pierced. I think it looks tacky as all hell but there are many more socially acceptable behaviours that say 'whore' far before a tongue piercing does.

[republicangel]

I just wanted to thank everyone for their thoughts on the subject.
She is going through with it. I've decided it has to be a generational thing. Everyone young (under about 25 or so) seems to think it looks nice. Everyone older thinks of it in "Lewinsky " terms or that it is just gross. I wanted to take the employment approach because I thought it would make her think. Believe it or not, she is very logical normally.

[WFTR]

Unfortunately, in many companies, the "diversity" policy would result in a manager being severely reprimanded for refusing to hire someone because her tongue was pierced. If she seemed like a nice person who would treat the other employees with respect, I would probably have to recommend her being hired if she were otherwise the best candidate for the job.

On a personal note, I don't even like pierced ears much less any other part of the body. The only good thing about a piercing over a tattoo is that the piercing can be removed and never worn again. As tattoos go, I don't mind an occasional ankle ring, but I don't like anything else.

WFTR
Bill

[Rudder]

Ask her why she pierced her tongue. Her answer will likely convince you NOT to hire her.

[KneelBeforeZod]

Tongue piercing 'can be fatal'

"You can get killed walkin' yo' doggy"

That being said... Tongue piercing is SO 1999.

[jouellette2004]

Now wait a minute!! You mean to tell me that just because a person has their tongue pierced you are going to be stereotypical and label someone as a slut. That is ridiculous! How stuck in your ways can you be? I mean just because a person want to express themselves differently then you might like doesn't give you the right to make judgments on them! Come on now it is 2004 and things are changing no one is going to be exactly how you would like them to be, and I for one think it's stupid how people will judge a person before they even know them. I myself am going to get my tongue pierced with one of my friends and I think that it's great. It's a way of expression and there is nothing wrong with that, and you can think what you want about people with tongue ring but if you to judgmental and wont see past the little things then I don't think you even deserve the right to know some of the best people around. So you can stay stuck in you little stereotypical world and keep you judgments to yourself because there are some great people out there that don't need to hear you judging them. The world is tough enough as it is. So have a great life because while your there judging everyone we are out here living life the way it should be.

[jouellette2004]

Now wait a minute!! You mean to tell me that just because a person has their tongue pierced you are going to be stereotypical and label someone as a slut. That is ridiculous! How stuck in your ways can you be? I mean just because a person want to express themselves differently then you might like doesn't give you the right to make judgments on them! Come on now it is 2004 and things are changing no one is going to be exactly how you would like them to be, and I for one think it's stupid how people will judge a person before they even know them. I myself am going to get my tongue pierced with one of my friends and I think that it's great. It's a way of expression and there is nothing wrong with that, and you can think what you want about people with tongue ring but if you to judgmental and wont see past the little things then I don't think you even deserve the right to know some of the best people around. So you can stay stuck in you little stereotypical world and keep you judgments to yourself because there are some great people out there that don't need to hear you judging them. The world is tough enough as it is. So have a great life because while your there judging everyone we are out here living life the way it should be.

[HairOfTheDog]

Hmmm....

[mandeec]

OMG you seriously think that a tongue piercing has anything to do with the quality of a persons work? If you that hard up and you just wont hire her tell her to buy a retainer at hot topic its an invisible barbell that you CANT see... as for me i have 15 piercings. I have 2 snake bites which is 2 sets of two piercings on either side of my tongue and i also have my tongue forked which means its split down the middle and i work at a very nice place called Arbor Lodge in Nebraska City Ne... your really uptight arent you?

[HairOfTheDog]

No pros, it makes a girl look like a slut.

[HairOfTheDog]

This is really trippy.

This mandeec of the forked tongue just woke up this old thread, I saw it in latest posts, replied... and I was the last poster on it before!

Who's interested in old thread trolls?

[Darksheare]

Really trippy, they signed up.... tommorrow.

Wow, a resurrected thread from 2004.
And their first post is a bit of a flame too, that's a bad sign.
Hair, I think you found something, so I'll ping the 'rest of the eyeballs' here to take a look as well.
This is.. interesting.

Maybe their subsequent posts will tell us more?
*???*

[HairOfTheDog]

If you look up thread, the prior poster was also a "sign up and flame" type...