I love that huffy "I get tattoos for the real reason to get them." But doesn't bother to enlighten those grasshoppers in the audience to this universal truth.
Our generation and the one beneath us are already so heavily tattooed* that stereotyping of this sort** will get less and less relevant as we age. Graduates of med school, MBAs, attorneys... lots of white-collar tattooed folk out there already.
That said, I've seen my fair share of very, um... regrettable ones. And trendy tattoos make me cringe. And impulsive tattoos are just about the dumbest thing you can do to yourself. [Says the girl with a small nautical star that she got three days after turning 18.]
*By which I mean that it's become socially acceptable to the point that a large portion of us have at least one tattoo, not that we all have multiples and/or tattoos in highly exposed areas. **While hilarious in a tongue-in-cheek sense.
I'm not so sure about that, honestly. I think we all know a great number of people with tattoos, but I'm not sure it's truly representative of society at large. Like drug users who say everyone does it, but really it's just the small sample size of that particular community they're involved in.
For the past few years it's been pretty widely represented in pop culture. Such as very successful TV series about tattoo shops, TV specials/documentaries, mainstream celebrities with prominent tattoos, the "alt-porn" boom (like Suicide Girls), the massive popularity of "safe rebellion" outlets for youth (like Hot Topic), etc... I think it's become so much more mainstream--stretching beyond subcultural--than it was ten, even five years ago.
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I do know a guy who has "USDA" tattooed on his ass. What makes this funny is that his name is Angus.
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I love that huffy "I get tattoos for the real reason to get them."
But doesn't bother to enlighten those grasshoppers in the audience to this universal truth.
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Have I wanted this for more than five minutes?
Yup. Know that guy.
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Our generation and the one beneath us are already so heavily tattooed* that stereotyping of this sort** will get less and less relevant as we age. Graduates of med school, MBAs, attorneys... lots of white-collar tattooed folk out there already.
That said, I've seen my fair share of very, um... regrettable ones. And trendy tattoos make me cringe. And impulsive tattoos are just about the dumbest thing you can do to yourself. [Says the girl with a small nautical star that she got three days after turning 18.]
*By which I mean that it's become socially acceptable to the point that a large portion of us have at least one tattoo, not that we all have multiples and/or tattoos in highly exposed areas.
**While hilarious in a tongue-in-cheek sense.
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