Posted on 10/06/2013 2:49:36 AM PDT by AlexW
While I have not been in America for almost ten years, I do watch American TV via my G-sat. My most popular channel is the History Channel. What shocks and amazes me is that most all of the women on all of the programs are slathered with Tattoos. Is this a new phenomena in America? Have women degraded themselves to such an extent? Some may think it cool. I think it is disgusting.
“Start a tattoo removal business and get rich.”
It’s already a big business.There are several reality shows on cable creating/judging/repairing tats. Tramp Stamps have really taken off as an accepted money maker.
Reality TV programming seeks out the exhibitionists and gives them their hearts' desire.
If I were a pre-med student I would set my sights on dermatology. Between the sun-tan booths and the present tattoo fad, by the time you graduate you will have a huge potential patient load.
Almost every generation has to have some visible characteristic to set it apart from its parents, whether its flapper skirts or spiked hair or whatever. But this is the first time that act of independence was a permanent alteration. And since no kid wants to imitate its parents, in a few years those hip tattoos will rejected as “something my parents used to do”, and all those people who desperately try to appear cool will be stuck with them. When celebrities like Janeane Garofalo and her Yakuza initiate imitation look realize it’s no longer cool, when employers tell their workers their tattoos are off-putting to potential customers, etc. you will see them scrambling to find some way to remove these former symbols of being “with it”.
Go with dermatology, young med student. Your fortune will be made...
WHAT WAS I THINKING? is a good name for a tattoo removal business.
I was at a biker rally in Georgia in the 90s an a tattoo vendor called his business “SCARRED FOR LIFE”. But his market was hard core bikers not college kids so it was appropriate. Gotta wonder about the airhead women that get them these days.
I especially like the Tramp Stamp on some of these heifers.Most will look real classy in a few years out.
I wouldn’t have a relationship with some one with one and would not stay in a relationship with some one who got/wanted one.
I think it shows lack of resect for ones self and is Grosssssss
“Have women degraded themselves to such an extent? Some may think it cool. I think it is disgusting.”
Damn right! You nailed it!
It’s extremely rare that a female with those doesn’t look trashy or cheap or (isn’t) trashy or cheap.
Tattoos on young women may be acceptable. Tattoos on old women will be gross.
Did not Tray-Thug Martins daddy have a gang tat he had altered before playing victim?
Laser tattoo removal is becoming a big business.
It’s very much socio-culturally linked in the US. Unless you were out in the working or underclass, you likely wouldn’t see them much. In the lower-middle class, they’re likely to be discreet. And in the upper-middle, they’re less common altogether.
As to the History channel, see what I know: I thought that was a channel with historical dramas and the like. (No, I haven’t had a TV for decades.)
They might as well tattoo whore or idiot on their forehead.
Tattoos, missing teeth, smoking, bad breath, late for work, small vocabularies, trailer parks, .... these things seem to go together.
A little bee or butterfly in a private area? Ok. More than that and we are the 3rd world savages this regime is shooting for.
For the most part, I live in a similar area and I see more and more blatantly marked up men and women.
My spousal unit does a lot of those weekend 5Ks and the like and those are where the inked up ones really show.
Where I work, most of the production people have many. A few in management do. Recently an older lady that I would figure to be very sensible and conservative got a small one on her arm.
I don’t get it. To me, ink is a major turn off and what times I ever hired talent on camera, my main requirement was no tattoos but that didn’t stop the freaks from contacting me anyway.
The girl tattoo craze started with Lollapalooza in the 90’s.
Gals with tats, IMHO, speaks volumes about the company they keep (or have kept).
I can’t stand them.
“Have ou seen American Pickers?”
Do you mean the show where the two fags go around laughing at the American country residents?
I often tell young people that tatoos are like an old calendar picture that can never be changed.
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