It is disgusting, you’re absolutely right. Seeing young women marked up like that is like seeing the Mona Lisa spray-painted with graffiti.
I agree. Covering God’s ultimate gift to you with graffiti.
Not a good idea. Start a tattoo removal business and get rich.
Looks like more women than men now do have tattoos:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/26/more-american-women-than-men-are-tattooed/
When 23% of American women have tattoos, it has clearly moved beyond being an edgy counter-culture thing—even if that is what it symbolizes to those getting them.
Kind of like when so many lawyers and investment bankers move into SoHo or the Village in Manhattan that it no longer signifies anything about their being artsy or counterculture.
Tattooing has become cool, that's all. It's a peer pressure thing. To have one makes you unique, cool, individual and bold. Not to have one is seen as boooooring.
I think it “cheapens” people who have them, it looks like the woman might be a slut while the man a criminal. There has been research as of late pointing out that women with tattoos get picked up by guys at beaches faster than women without them.
Of course they do, the guy looking for a tattooed babe must assume she'll be “easier” than a more conservative girl. Stands to reason.
The ungodly tattooing is nothing compared to the absolutely satanic body alterations many are undergoing in the more liberal, urban regions. Sub-cutaneous inserts, piercings, skewerings, splittings and even amputations all spring from the same diabolical worship of the idol of self.
After killing your own babies, why would tattooing yourself be shocking. I think it’s self mutilation.....and its BUTT UGLY!!
We do enjoy those "I regret my tattoo" shows. Two thoughts occur to me every single time I watch that program - 1) Of all the stupid tattoos all over your body, THAT'S the tattoo you regret and 2) why are you taking a small, ugly tattoo and turning it into a big, ugly tattoo?
My first memories of tats were on the arms of servicemen and criminals back in the fifties.
It seems the tat industry exploded in the 90's or something.
A tatted woman causes embarassment especially for a man because if we have any desire for art, we're drawn to try to determine what the hell IS that picture anyway on a moving female body... and we're not supposed to stare like that.
… most all of the women on all of the programs are slathered with Tattoos.
Slathered? The only women I’ve seen “slathered” with tattoos were on a reality show about tattoos.
It’s very gross and almost seems to have happened over night...body mutilation, what’s up with that.
I think it’s cultural. Even my 27-YO daughter has one on her ankle, a butterfly. She tried to hide it from me. I don’t like it at all.
I’m not turned on by inked-up women.
I’m amazed at the athletes slathered with them, baseball and football. Some of these people seem to try to be the most outrageous or something. And I hate all the spitting...geez.
Medicaid patients frequently have disposable income for tats.
“When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.” P. J. O’Rourke.
I live in flyover country. The number of young woman with tattoos have increased substantially over the last 5 to 10 years. Walmart in the summer time should give you the best viewing opportunity.
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...