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If one adopts a tattoo style and placement that I usually see on a girl right above her thong that's sticking out of her low-rise jeans or pajama bottoms and below her "Your boyfriend thinks I'm a great kisser" belly shirt (actual sighting, by the way; she was wearing the pajama bottoms and leaning across the Wal-Mart jewelry counter), then that sends a message. Whether it's the intended message or a true message about that particular woman doesn't change the message, any more than a Bear fan wearing a Packer jersey changes the message of the Packer jersey

Thats true...that style would send a message, just like guys wearing baggy pants sends and a sideways baseball caps sends a message. But the tattoo itself is not a reason to lable someone a whore or trailer trash. The senior vice president of human resources for my company has one on but we could never tell because of her pantsuit until she told us she had it.

I agree that the girl with the exposed underwear and "bratty" looks sends a bad message. My daughter would not walk out of the house like that.

One day it dawned on me that all those that could tell me what to do or be bothered by what I did were dead.

It’s a very liberating moment.

Suddenly, I wasn’t living a life based on trying to keep peace with someone, keep Mama from having coniptions or not offending someone else. And heck, I’ve worked in enough nursing homes to know that non-tattoo’d 80 year old skin looks just as bad as tattoo’d 80 year old skin.

Might as well have some color.

Piercings give me just more places for sparklies.

The senior vice president of human resources for my company has one on but we could never tell because of her pantsuit until she told us she had it.

why would a Sr. Vice President reveal this about herself? not so much that she has the tattoo, but that she shared this information with--employees?--colleagues?--says something about her...