Don't worry. Most normal people don't run with face tatted weirdoes. That's not a circle you want to circle in. You're just fine.
Posted on 08/27/2022 9:36:20 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A New Zealand news anchor fired back at a viewer who she said has repeatedly complained about her traditional face tattoos.
Oriini Kaipara, who co-hosts the political current affairs show "Newshub Nation," shut down the remarks from a viewer who she said emailed her and described her tattoos as “offensive and aggressive looking” and a “bad look.” The viewer’s comments come after Kaipara made history last year as the first person with a moko kauae, a cultural tattoo worn by Māori women, to anchor a prime-time news program.
“Please refrain from complaining further, and restrain your cultural ignorance and bias for another lifetime, preferably in the 1800s,” Kaipara wrote in an email to the viewer, according to a screenshot of the message posted to her Instagram stories on Wednesday.
Kaipara, who has had the tattoo on her chin since 2019, also condemned the discrimination and harassment that people with the traditional moko marking endure.
The Māori people are an Indigenous and Polynesian group in New Zealand. In Māori culture, the sacred chin tattoo symbolizes a transition from girl to adulthood.
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Don't worry. Most normal people don't run with face tatted weirdoes. That's not a circle you want to circle in. You're just fine.
That is what the tattoo is. She will bring it with her everywhere. But the hair in one of the pictures looks like that of a Tulsa Oklahoma weather girl. The tattoo is to be noticed. It is the first thing you see. And it is mostly noticed because the rest of her is incongruent, at least in the pictures provided.
Every year on ash Wednesday I walk around with a black splotch on my forehead. I don’t expect that its not the very first thing people notice, it is. Our brains are wired to search every detail of a face and detect any communication of emotion.
We, as human beings, are hyper sensitive about a face. Not just ours but anyone we talk to. As a professional communicator this women will first communicate her tribe. Then she will communicate whatever she says. The tattoo is designed to make that happen. Its biology.
This lady can do what she wants. But she cannot stop the reaction every health person is going to have. Which will generally be quizzical.
My view is people are free to do stupid things and I am free to say they’re stupid.
gross. Tattoos are disgusting. Oh, never mind. I forgot. All cultures are equal.
She doesn’t care about my opinion, but I dont like it. It is an inappropriate look for on camera. It is her way of trying to become the news vs reporting it.
It is indulgent and looks sloppy, as though she just finished eating a grape jam sandwich and didnt have time to napkin her chinny chin chin before going live on the air. No doubt her boss is likely afraid to utter a discouraging word for fear of her playing the Race Card.
Is it really "healthy" to be obsessive about other people's appearances? I'm 75. I was taught not to judge anyone by their looks or their disabilities, not to ridicule them, or make fun of them...that I needed to put myself in their shoes, and consider how I'd feel if someone said something to me about a disability I might have, or if my appearance had flaws, or I suffered from a disfigurement. Kids make fun of the looks and appearances of others. Adults are supposed to look past the cover, and search for what is inside. I might have been concerned with my looks when I was a teenager, and thought I needed to impress people. I got over that concern a long time ago. I realized that I really didn't care what others thought about my appearance, or the clothes I wore, and that if they didn't like me the way I was, they didn't have to bother with me.
Especially in "woke" New Zealand. Funny thing is that she did not have the tattoo when they first hired her.
Why does anyone even have to imagine what she's going to look like in 20 years? I'm sure in her culture, she's associated with plenty of elderly people, especially women, who have tattoos like hers, so I doubt she'll be concerned any more with her appearance then, than she is now. What she will look like in 20 years is irrelevant.
Sorry, but in less than 20 years I'll be dead, and you'll still be using your imagination to conjure up an image of what someone with a tattoo will look like 20 years down the road.
The look on that one black guy says it all lol
Check the picture in post 33.
She’s pretty but no one is condemning her
She just looks silly and it detracts from her comeliness
So, if someone thinks your “cultural virtue signaling” is ugly, that is racist?
Bugger off , yah TWOT. What, no one has ever told you before that the tattoo is ugly?
It seems to announce she’s a swallower.
Wow you have no idea about human biology. A child who does not learn to detect human faces is considered disabled. You can tell a stop sign is a stop sign. But you can detect your mother or spouse from a million similar faces. And babies can do it before they walk.
Our faces are not just part of our bodies like an arm or leg. Our faces without our speech, are a communication devise. Like a dog can smell an other dog and identify them from just the urine. We can look at a person and know how they feel.
I am not judging her. I just know she is in an odd profession for someone who wants to have a tattoo that marks her so individually. That tattoo will be forever the first thing people want to know when they meet her. And if she stayed in her tribe that would not be a thing. But she is not staying in her tribe. So she will explain it like Paul McCartney will have to answer questions about the Beatles for the rest of his life.
I am not judging her. I am just wondering if she is up to the path she has set out for herself. I am not sure I would have taken the same path. I am the type who tries not to let anything about my attire give away my thoughts before I know someone. She has chosen to say, ask about my tattoo its a good story.
In Western Culture, the Māori chin tattoo symbolizes a transition from girl to tatted skank.
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BINGO!
Is it true that the pictographs translate roughly to “I swallow”?
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Naughty naughty!
Yeah ... that has turned out to be a grave mistake. When someone's looks are self-inflicted, those looks can be very education as to that person's character.
I suffered from a disfigurement
Yeah ... I was also taught not to deliberately disfigure myself.
“I am impressed by the traditional microphone, amplifiers and speaker stack.”
First thing I noticed. I had no idea the Maori were that advanced at first contact.
In truth they were pretty darn good sailors, however.
People forget what this country, and other countries did to their indigenous people...
Indigenous people are just those who were king before the last group became king. American Indians had three distinct waves of people whose DNA were so different they can still be tracked. One wave usurped the next wave. And smaller waves existed as well. There were even mash-ups. Where a wave may have been a combination of two earlier waves.
From the beginning of man there has been the law of survival of the fittest. That law is true of humans and every other animal. A frog eats a small snake, a larger snake eats a frog. There is no moral imperative other than to survive.
The most unnatural thing about modern man is our concept of including all men as equal with rights. That is very new. And no one of any race or tribe is not descendant of a conquering civilization, descendant of a slave and of a master.
I can see past the tattoo on her chin.
The rest of her face looks like she’s New Zealand’s AOC.
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