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Tattoo and social class

I think tatts are pretty widespread these days across all social classes, as are piercings.

I'm always amused when people "judge a book by its cover." My partner and I stand in line at the supermarket, and hear shoppers comment on the cashier's and bay boy's nose rings, eyebrow piercings and visible tatts. Yet here the two of us are, lawyer and journalist, with multiple piercings between us, and tatts on him -- but all out of view, under our business suits. My gym buddy is a physician with a pierced dick and tattoos over most of his body.
 
These people who use their bodies as a sign board— are they really using it as their only method to try and communicate with other human beings?

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kevbo said:
Puh-lease. Maybe 20-30 years ago, but now every hipster has one. Not saying they're just limited to hipsters, either (I have one).
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As someone with a tattoo, I find being compared to hipster deeply insulting.

-d-
 
journo25 said:
I think tatts are pretty widespread these days across all social classes, as are piercings.

I'm always amused when people "judge a book by its cover." My partner and I stand in line at the supermarket, and hear shoppers comment on the cashier's and bay boy's nose rings, eyebrow piercings and visible tatts. Yet here the two of us are, lawyer and journalist, with multiple piercings between us, and tatts on him -- but all out of view, under our business suits. My gym buddy is a physician with a pierced dick and tattoos over most of his body.
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It's funny, though, how this reads like a Yahoo answer to the question, 'Where did the phrase 'in your face' come from'. :)
 
The Irish wear their hearts on their sleeve.
The insane wear their neuroses as a 'sleeve'.
 
Steven Spielburg spends $250,000,000 every year to express himself.

Poor people have to use their own flesh to express themselves.
 
Dejavudoo said:
If one is honest, many of the tattoo-wearers quite deliberately send a message with their chosen tattoos, and just as with the covers of books, the artwork is deliberately representative of the contents.

Call it judging, or simply reading, but I fail to find any meaningful discrimination at work.
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He has a point.

A certain tattoo that someone chooses to have on him/herself usually has some kind of meaning behind the reason he/she chose it. So probably it would kind of display their character or personality through the choice of tattoos they have... and the placement of the tattoo as well.
 
I admit that I don't understand why people get tattooed; that I also find many of them a hotchpotch of unpleasant designs. Then I must also admit that on some men I find them incredibly attractive and some of the tattoos real works of art.

What I don't see is how someone's social standing has anything to do with having tattoos; perhaps in the dim distant past but certainly not in these present times.
 
I don't have any tats, and doubt that I ever will. I suppose one reason may be that I was raised under a small social "spotlight", and grew to prefer "blending in" rather than "standing out". I could also claim an aversion to pain, but I'm not really bothered by needles at all.

Quite a few years ago, a young guy I worked with (I'll call him "Mikey") had a friend who had been away, who had become a very successful tattoo artist. Soon after that friend returned home, Mikey got his first tattoo (a cute little "Bat Mite" on his left shoulder). Then other tats followed. Mikey would design them, and his friend would expertly render them. They truly were works of Art.

However, I never really understood the WHY! Mikey was (and I suppose still is) a Very Beautiful Guy, with Amazing, Flawless, skin, and his sparkling green eyes, under his black hair, were "enough" to make him stand out, in Any crowd, just the way he was! Other than him being close to his buddy, and even though I asked him about it, I never quite "got" his desire for Ink!

Several years ago, to my surprise, "My" Kev (an Aquarius) got a bicep "band", of a surfer riding blue waves. The colors were brilliant, and, it too, was very well done. Now, the colors are faded/fading, and it's not looking as stunning as when he first got it. When I asked him Why, he simply said he liked it.

My sister's second husband has a Gorgeous daughter, that, I guess, would be my legal niece (niece-in-law?). The last time I saw her she was, again to my total surprise, sporting a shoulder to elbow Sleeve! It was quite intricate, with many striking colors, and my first reaction, which I didn't put into words, was OMG! WTF?

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I simply don't fathom, except perhaps in tribal cultures, the motivations for getting tats.

SO ... My question to those of you who have them is ... WHY???

Of course ... No Matter What ...

Keep Smilin'!! :kiss: (*8*)
Chaz :luv:
 
Kyanimal said:
SO ... My question to those of you who have them is ... WHY???
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Mine is very personal to me. It's a little logo from a guitar company. I have two of their guitars, and I have been playing the guitar (and drawing those logos on my arm) since I was 17. When I moved into the sciences, I used that same logo as a quick and easy way to mark my things in the lab. Since this has been my bread and butter since 1997, and of course the guitars (the first of which I got in 1995, even though I started playing in 1993 on a borrowed guitar), that little logo has very much become a synonym, and a summary, of me.

I can't say that for everyone else's tattoos, of course, but that was the rationale when I had it inked just after I turned 30, back in January 2007. I should have done it earlier, but that's another story. I'm glad I waited, in the end, because it allowed the symbol to properly encompass me in the way I always imagined it had, rather than realising the hard way that I was tired of it after 2 years and I was stuck with it. But it has been part of me in one way or the other since I was 17, before I got my first guitar. Sure, I may be a walking billboard, but I didn't choose it on a whim from a catalogue on the day I decided "I think I'll get a tattoo today."

So that is my why.

-d-
 
No tats for me here, but ink looks great when its on young skin.
 
blackbeltninja said:
Mine is very personal to me. It's a little logo from a guitar company. I have two of their guitars, and I have been playing the guitar (and drawing those logos on my arm) since I was 17. When I moved into the sciences, I used that same logo as a quick and easy way to mark my things in the lab. Since this has been my bread and butter since 1997, and of course the guitars (the first of which I got in 1995, even though I started playing in 1993 on a borrowed guitar), that little logo has very much become a synonym, and a summary, of me.

I can't say that for everyone else's tattoos, of course, but that was the rationale when I had it inked just after I turned 30, back in January 2007. I should have done it earlier, but that's another story. I'm glad I waited, in the end, because it allowed the symbol to properly encompass me in the way I always imagined it had, rather than realising the hard way that I was tired of it after 2 years and I was stuck with it. But it has been part of me in one way or the other since I was 17, before I got my first guitar. Sure, I may be a walking billboard, but I didn't choose it on a whim from a catalogue on the day I decided "I think I'll get a tattoo today."

So that is my why.

-d-
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What company is it?
 
If you're considering a tattoo with words, make sure you won't be a walking typo.

Would you trust [strike]Bluto[/strike] a tattooist to know anything about apostrophes?
 
Like anything with aesthetics, it has to be tasteful and have meaning. So many shitty tattoos out there.
 
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