The Tattoo: It's Ubiquity Is A Sign of the Times

PJ Media ^ | 01/05/2020 | David Solway

[SeekAndFind]

Tattoos are not new. What is new is their ubiquity and extent of body coverage. They meet the eye with livid starkness everywhere one looks, turning the atmosphere and the culture positively fluorescent. What was once a niche market has expanded exponentially. Practically everyone of a certain age group, say, late teens to early fifties, seems to flaunt these decorative glyphs and totems on every visible part of their bodies, including the head and face. (Actress Amanda Bynes and rapper Post Malone are recent celebrity examples.) And judging from my experience in the change room of the gym where I work out, these chromatic blemishes, particle illustrations of a much wider significance, appear on the less visible parts of a person’s anatomy as well.

It’s a phenomenon that continues to puzzle me. Every era, of course, is marked by its own fashion anomalies once considered normative or appealing, which we often tend to regard as quaint, ridiculous, garish or merely amusing—to take just one example, the dandyism of red waistcoats, green wigs and blue hair in 19th-century Paris.

Today is no exception, though we need not look back to find them absurd or grotesque. How one can appraise sumptuary excesses like the fade cut, pink hair, septum rings, tongue studs, navel piercings, and the prevalence of the orgulous tattoo as in any way attractive boggles the mind.

As the World Journal of Psychiatry points out in a methodological case study focusing on statistical distributions and issues relating to epidemiology, tattoos were traditionally associated with deviance and psychopathology, typically criminals, gang members and “others belonging to marginalized and counter-cultural groups.” (One recalls those Grade B gangster films featuring Russian mafia members, their arms, backs and chests slathered with lurid insignia rankings.) Tattoos serve “to align the wearer with a specific group,”

[SaxxonWoods]

Skin reacts to tattoo ink as a poison to be expelled. So it sends what ever ink it can to the lymph nodes, where it collects and stays. Eventually this inhibits the ability of the nodes to do their normal job of fighting infections.

Enjoy, tattoo freaks.

[elcid1970]

Proud to be a “plainskin”.

Although I do have skin markings. Surgical scars.

[unixfox]

Tattoo removal is booming. The person that invents painless instant removal will become very very rich.

[yarddog]

I can’t stand them. Ruin what in some cases is a beautiful body.

[BenLurkin]

“I swear on my mother’s tattoo” used to be a gag line.

[dfwgator]

Tattoo - The Who

Me and my brother were talking to each other
‘Bout what makes a man a man
Was it brain or brawn, or the month you were born
We just couldn’t understand

Our old man didn’t like our appearance
He said that only women wear long hair

So me and my brother borrowed money from Mother
We knew what we had to do
We went downstairs, past the barber and gymnasium
And got our arms tattooed

Welcome to my life, tattoo
I’m a man now, thanks to you
I expect I’ll regret you but the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo

My dad beat me ‘cause mine said “Mother”
But my mother naturally liked it and beat my brother
‘Cause his tattoo was of a lady in the nude
And my mother thought that was extremely rude

Welcome to my life, tattoo
We’ve a long time together, me and you
I expect I’ll regret you but the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo

Now I’m older, I’m tattooed all over
My wife is tattooed too
A rooty-toot-toot, rooty-tooty-toot-toot
Rooty-toot-toot tattoo too
To you

[SeekAndFind]

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[RinaseaofDs]

The Power of Brands.

A picture says a 1000 words. Religion has squandered its significance. Something fills the gap.

[Scrambler Bob]

painless instant removal

You probably can only have two of the above at a time.

For example, amputation.

[gattaca]

Interesting.

[yarddog]

Even worse are the body piercings.

Absolutely hideous.

[American in Israel]

As morality flounders Tramp Stamps flourish.

[goodnesswins]

Get a tattoo on young skin? What do you think it will look like on old skin?

[Fungi]

It is a scourge on society. People do it for acceptance and "to be cool." "34 percent of people with hepatitis C had a tattoo, compared to 12 percent of people without the infection." (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tattoo-hepatitis-c_n_2546592)

The body does not like the tattoo ink; it does not stay put but migrates trough the body and concentrates in lymph nodes where it will be a future cancer causing agent. Wait for the wave of cancer cases for tattooed people.

Leviticus 19:28 (KJV) Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

[ReaganGeneration2]

[coaster123]

My father had two. Right delt: USMC insignia. Left delt A heart and ribbon inscribed: Mom and Dad.

Ha! The freak got lung cancer and died... beat that lymph poison!

[Hatteras]

A permanent reminder of a temporary feeling

[yarddog]

Also Panama City license plates.

[VanDeKoik]

I personally find them stupid.

Not that I’m going to think you are a “bad” person just because you have one AT LEAST in a place so they can be covered up when necessary, I just find it really perturbing that they have become so mainstream that the darn things are worn visibly in workplaces and professional settings now. That people with them on their necks and faces are not in a mental ward.