I'm unhappy and hate myself. Who knew?

[apocalypsos]

Oh, you've got to be fucking kidding me.

You want to know why I get tattoos? Because I was the kind of goofy kid who liked to draw on her arms and hands with markers and that shit washes away. It's that simple.

And you know what? I'm really sick of the fucking argument that when I get old, the tattoos are going to look awful when wrinkles make my skin sag. Hey, guess what? When old age makes my skin sag, everything's going to look like hell. Quite frankly, with my family history, I'll be lucky if I get that old, but let's not even get into that.

I love my tattoos. That lady can feel free to fuck off.

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[stone-princess.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm thoroughly enraged now.

[prodigal7512.livejournal.com]

You and me both. *glare*

[meinterrupted]

Well, this lady is clearly stupid, and not just for the tattoo business. Apparently, in her little corner of the world, 20% is 1/4.

"20% of women" ... "And so one in four girls..."

Idiot.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, I noticed that, too. :)

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I can't even get past the first page of that stupid wench's ranting. She doesn't even have her facts straight. Cause Drew Barrymore doesn't have daises around her ankle, she has a cross with flowers growing on it near her ankle.
Not the most important detail but if she's going to bitch about tattoos she may as well attempt to know what the fuck she's talking about.
She apaprently never considered people get them to represent something important in their lives and not to 'look fashionable.'
Cunt.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

She apaprently never considered people get them to represent something important in their lives and not to 'look fashionable.'

Amen. I picked all of my tattoos for personal reasons -- my love of writing, fantasy, paganism. It's all things that mean something to me. And the ones I have planned -- Shakespeare's signature, a Siamese kitten, the characters from the Books of Boggs -- follow in that same vein.

If I wanted to be trendy, I'd spend outrageous amounts of money on uncomfortable shoes.

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

So we can assume that those earrings she's wearing are clip-ons.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

THANK you. I was thinking about that exact same thing. (Well, more like, "So let me get this straight -- my tats make me a victim, but my pierced ears don't?")

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Oh, can it, lady.

[eiluned.livejournal.com]

[snerk] What a wanky bitch. Yep, my tattoo makes me seriously unemployable, especially when my boss, three coworkers, and the freaking assistant dean all cooed over my tat this afternoon.

I'll bet they fire me on Monday. [snerk]

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

All of mine can be covered up with a nice dress shirt with elbow-length sleeves if need be. I don't plan on getting anything too obtrusive until I get published.

But yeah, seconded. The first boss I had after I got the LotR tat thought it was awesome, because -- surprise! -- some bosses have tattoos, too. You'd be amazed how often bosses will judge you more on your ability to DO YOUR JOB than on a needle's worth of ink.

[malhablada.livejournal.com]

Pfft, that lady is full of condensed owl shit. Could she honestly say that this isn't beautiful?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's just gorgeous.

(I think the most beautiful tattoo I've ever seen on a woman was art from "Where The Wild Things Are" on a thigh and hip. It was amazing.)

[mcee.livejournal.com]

quite simply, body art is a projection of unhappiness and self-loathing.

... WHAT?

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

Just from that line alone, I think she's gotten self-mutilation and body-art confused a little. Just a little.

[supesfan88.livejournal.com]

the writer of the article looks like Pamela Wallin and she just frigin scares me to death so ... I never really got pastthe first paragraph...

[kayim.livejournal.com]

I'm 100% with you. I love my tattoo more than I thought possible. And I'm *still* going to go on Saturday and get my second one!

And besides, by the time my skin gets saggy (or saggier!) there will be plenty of ways of removing tattoos - should I want them removed.

Not that my ankle or wrist are going to sag too much :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm keeping my tattoos forever. I'm going to be the coolest grandma on the block. :)

[missmp.livejournal.com]

Angelina Jolie has a Latin tattoo on her stomach which says: "What nourishes me also destroys me."

She also has one below her neck that says "Know your Rights," which is pretty fucking awesome. Interesting that anti-tattoo lady didn't mention that one.

[suaine.livejournal.com]

*blinks* I hate it when people like that throw words like "psychologists" around and think that makes their argument for them. Seriously, body art is body art, not self-harm. It's all in the intentions. The context of an action is often more important than the action itself. Argh. *screams*

[thalionar.livejournal.com]

no f'ing shit! I love my tattoos, they're part of me, and I didn't need them to fill some gaping hole in my damaged psyche, they are celebrations.

Stupid cow.

[bubblesbrnaid]

I'll have what she's smoking, please.

Christ. If they think the tattoos will look bad in 40 years, imagine what my *scars* are going to look like.

[cyprinella]

*eye rolls* I wonder if she tells women who get tattoos to cover their mastectomy scars that they're mutiltating themselves to be cool.

[fortuna-juvat.livejournal.com]

I have no problem calling this art. It's fucking beautiful and obviously has meaning to the wearer.

Her idea of Art is probably Thomas Kinkade.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Is there any reason whatsoever to pay any attention to this person?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe just to laugh at the idiocy.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

What a sad, judgemental woman she must be. By her logic, only women filled with self-loathing would ever give birth because they must enjoy the pain. Yes, some people who hate themselves get tatts. Some people who hate themselves do drugs. Some people who hate themselves also get married, have kids, go to movies, dance, read books, cook food... I could go on like this all day. Her arguments, utterly flawed, are delivered with a kind of smug condescention that just puts my back up.

[chandri.livejournal.com]

So, self-mutilation for beauty's sake is *bad*, huh?

See, I find it funny that my immediate response to that was to look at her picture and go: "Hang on. Haven't you got pierced ears?"

[chandri.livejournal.com]

Ah, somebody beat me to it. :(

[riskygamble.livejournal.com]

Man. She's retarded.

People like that make my brain go splodey.

[ladysorka]

You know, as someone who was a cutter for years, I find this even more offensive.

I'm sorry, but if I actually do that get the little tattoo of a squid I'm debating for my ankle, it won't be for even close to the reason I have all these little scars on my right leg. The reasons aren't even vaguely similar.

Bitch.

And I can't help but wonder what this woman thinks about face lifts.

[tabaqui]

Yeeeeeeesh.
I wrote her an email. I mean - come *on*. What an uninformed and condescending article!

I luff my tattoos - no self mutilation there! That only happens in the kitchen when i attempt to make dinner.
:)

Thanks for posting!

[tv-elf.livejournal.com]

Yeee gads. Methinks the author needs to focus on more important things. Maybe she hasn't noticed: there's a WAR on, nations in Africa starving... Yes, we can't expect the world to stop, but we should weigh our battles. If it was my choice to get a tattoo, she should just deal with it. (Uh, granted, I choose not to tattoo due to medical concerns that will hit me later.)

[miliani-2000.livejournal.com]

You know, it makes me want to go out and get a huge tatoo on my forehead that says "Yeah, I got a tatoo. What are you gonna do about it?"

[budclare.livejournal.com]

I hope that you spell tattoo right, because having a typo on your forehead would be way embarrassing. ;)

[skandrae.livejournal.com]

I love her assertation that tattoos make you unemployable. I have seven, and they are all discreet and coverable, with the exception of the one on my wrist (which is roughly the size of penny). I work in Japan, where half the country associates tattoos with the yakuza, but I have never had any problems.

I regret nothing.