That’s true, i’ve wanted a Harley since I was 12 when my uncle took me for a ride on his Softail Deuce. He sold it a few years later (said he’d take 20 dollars off the price if I wanted to buy it :rolleyes:). I got my bike licence almost as soon as I was legal, didn’t end up getting a car licence until about 18 months later. I’ve only had the one bike, a japanese rip off of a Harley, but money is stopping me from upgrading.
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I accept with information: The bottom line is that tattoos just aren’t socially acceptable, and if you’re going to choose to have them, you need to be aware of that and be prepared to deal with the fall out…and let’s be honest, it’s that hint of societal rebellion that gives inking part of its mystic.
Ive got 7 tats in total not all are visible all the time but some random women who served me in a shop the other day turned around and said ‘youve got alot of tattoos….for a mum’ I didnt say anything cos there wasnt much I could, some people are just old fashioned though. Go with what feels right for you X
Well, since my partner is a tattooist, and done all but my first one, he hasn’t got a problem with it. But I am in the process of getting a full sleeve, and I haven’t told my mum yet. Since it’s a sessons job, I’m waiting and just gonna get the one big telling off when she sees it finished instead of lots of little ones everytime I have more done. Yes, I’m 29, but I still little to my mum.
I did work at a place once and came in in short sleeves ‘cos it was summer, and they’d never seen my wrist tattoo before ( I usually wore suits), and the made it clear that tattoos showing was a no-no for them.
I would like to see your Fiancee tell Kat Von D that she looks like a slut? I am pretty sure she may put him back in line a bit. Your life your rules.
I think youd hit the nail on the head – I find them sexy, but not really because physically they look good (although often they do!) – it shows a personality trait, that me ME is attractive – that go-getting, go for what I want attitude. Of course, woman without tattoos can have that attitude, but its just an outward way of expressing it
Unfortuantely for many people tattoos are still for the eccentric (musicians, movie stars, etc.), criminals and the ones who actively seek to shock and provoke (Goths, metalheads, punks, …).
It is bad enough for guys with tattoos but apparently grinning your way through hours of (reasonable) pain is also very unfeminine (Oh yeah? Ever tried being pregnant or giving birth? Actually for some having the period is bad enough…but I digress) so a woman getting (multiple) tattoos must be a bit weird in the head. I dare say the fact that many of our tattooed celebrities – male and female alike – are a bit loopy did NOT help making tattoos more mainstream at all.
I think you can thank those for making your fiance think women with tattoos may give people the expression of being “easy”, especially since many of these ladies tend to sport random and plain ugly examples of inkwork as well. Yes, I agree with him here, that looks “dodgy”.
What is finally doing the trick is that a lot of the less famous tattooed rebels of earlier times are perfectly respectable members of society and not all of them are trying particularly hard to make their ink less than part of who they are.
This of course depends heavily on WHERE you are. Seeing someone with a visible tattoo was rare in my neck of the woods (Munich) unless you went to any of the local “alt” clubs. Here in Belfast it is no big deal, if you really pay attention you are surprised how many people here run around with one or more tattoos and a lot of them look neither dodgy nor “alternative”.
That said I CAN understand people warning you that tattoos may limit your chances of getting a new job or even jeopardize your current one, just like facial piercings, shaving your head or sporting a ‘hawk. Nowadays it is not only about the image employers want their staff to represent or the attitude they expect applicants to have based on their looks but just the fact that they get SWAMPED with applications for most of their vacancies.
Given that many companies nowadays save money by employing insufficiently trained recruiters – if they have any specialists in this field at all and don’t resort to consulting external agencies who are often of the same quality – they need to apply some “filters” to narrow the long list somewhat down.
Unfortunately, the way you present yourself visually is one of the easiest “filters” to apply.
Companies like Lufthansa actually ask candidates who manage to get shortlisted (to be a stewardess) for a medical examination. If that one reveals ANY tattoos or piercings (visible or not) that candidate is out of the game. A friend of mine applied for a job on a cruise ship and got denied after initially being shortlisted because she has a tattoo on the inside of her forearm.
These things DO happen and you need to be aware of that when you decide to get a tattoo, especially one that is hard to cover up.
However, it’s YOUR body and your significant other should know better than trying to deter you with that – sorry – lame-a** statement that multiple tattoos on women are slutty.
Not having been exposed to tattoos a lot is no excuse either, I did not get to meet anyone with visible tattoos before I was 17 or 18 and didn’t start entertaining the idea of getting one myself until a couple of years after that. I guess though that my parents’ somewhat indifferent stance towards body mods (“We don’t like it but once you’re of age it’s not like we can stop you.”) helped alot, but still, it’s all about keeping your mind open and letting other people live the way they want if no harm is done in the process.
Nothing in this context is more sad but true but the sentence in Sherav’s signature:
The only difference between a person with tattoos, and a person without is this. The person with tattoos does not care if you do not have any. and it’s not surprising that in a tattoo forum:
– guys dig girls with tattoos.
– no-one thinks highly of anyone who is as easily offended as by a piece of ink on someone else’s skin, no matter how neutral the content of it is.
I am sure your fiance has a few hobbies and quirks you accept even though you don’t like them, maybe you should remind him of those the next time he nags.
Matthew
Wahahaha awesome! Ah, to be the fly on the wall…
Sorry to go off topic but that reminds me of a joke
Don’t read if you’re easily offended
“Women – you’ll go through the pain of child-birth, the pain of getting lower back tattoos, but you won’t have anal sex ‘because it hurts”
😮
Don’t read if you’re easily offended
“Women – you’ll go through the pain of child-birth, the pain of getting lower back tattoos, but you won’t have anal sex ‘because it hurts”
😮
HAHAH love it! Although some women quite enjoy it…apparently! x
Just tell him you’re going to start picking out his clothes and haircuts for him if he’s going to say BS like that to you. As someone who’s been married before and just got married again – life is too short to be living your life someone else’s way. You need to set a precedent up front or things will just get way worse down the road. I recommend you guys read this book together and talk about some stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399523758
Tattooed girls are right up there with guns and motorcycles in my book. Unfortunately, I don’t think my wife is going to be too keen about me starting a collection of tattooed girls. Guess I’ll just have to look and enjoy. 😀
As a girl with an arm tattoo, I get some odd looks. But I think as long as it is thought out, and not all random and spontaneous, it can look truly beautiful, if you know what I mean. My tattoo wasn’t flash, was thought out, and done for a purpose. Fuck them if they don’t like it 🙂 If it makes you feel good, do it1
Flip it–much ink as you and I got, and some of it had to hurt like hell, yet I don’t know about you, but there ain’t nothing going in MY ass.
Love. Peace. Metallica.
Hahaha, nope, nothing’s going near mine either!
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