i.e. "let's all be different...in the same way!"
When I ask people why they feel the need to festoon their bodies with hideous piercings and tattoos, they always say something about "self-expression". I then ask what abstract concepts they are trying to express with tattoos and piercings, and usually get blank stares or some incoherent babble.
It seems that the most inarticulate people, those who can't express themselves coherently in speech or writing, are the ones most preoccupied with "self-expression" these days.
Though to be fair, this is hardly an obsession unique to women - I see lots of repulsive male hipsters with sleeve tattoos, stretched earlobes, etc. Maybe they're thinking about relocating to Papua New Guinea?
It’s funny though. I had 6 earrings, colored hair and was goth into my 20s.
I attended a TEA party rally in Connecticut and was treated pretty viciously.
I still have 6 earrings and I’m 50. Always been who I am though.
Those earrings took months of research and decision making, and I interviewed piercing pros in 3 states. Tattoos are fine if they mean something, or a lot of thought is out into them but these people just pick garbage from a menu. Where is the thought in that?