<p>Personally I can't stand them and my head will pop off my neck if my kids ever come home with one. I think on a woman they are slutty...and wow was I surprised to see several tattoos on my kids' elementary school teachers ankles and lower backs (yeah, they didn't always dress professionally either). However, on the otherhand some years back in Hawaii I saw a young father who had a terrific Polynesian...possibly Maori tattoo all over his face and upper body...he was stunning...though a bit scary looking.</p>
<p>Be cautious if you want any thing written in a foreign language...there have been reports of people requesting a specific Asian characters (writing) thinking it means one thing when in reality it means something entirely different. If you're going to do it, do it sober.</p>
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<p>I'm looking forward to when my hypothetical kid starts going to school.</p>
<p>I don't have a problem with it. It's a way of expression as much as the way we dress, or the way we do our hair.</p>
<p>I personally would not get one, and even if I changed my mind later on, it would not be an obviously visible and large one. What people do to themselves is none of my business, and if something like that offends you then.. well, I feel sorry for you</p>
<p>I'd like to get a tattoo of a shamrock on my right upper arm. My dad has one in the same spot, and I want to keep that little symbol of my family and my Irish heritage with me all the time.</p>
<p>My line of thinking is this, though: if you're not prepared to deal with the potential negative reactions, you probably shouldn't be getting something permanently done to your body.</p>
<p>Also, an aside: I'll spare everyone the angry feminist rant, but the consensus that tattoos suggest questionable morals in women, and apparently only women, is causing me to make some funny faces.</p>
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They're not supposed to give you a tattoo if you show any signs of having been drinking according to (most) state laws.
This has nothing to do with the decisions you'll make- since alcohol is a blood thinner, you'll bleed more and the ink will have a greater chance of running.</p>
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<p>I don't really care if a particular guy has questionable morals. However, if a comely girl looks like she's got questionable morals, I'd make a note to myself to hesitate in dating her seriously, but I'd recognize that she'd probably make an excellent acquaintance.</p>
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<p>well my best friend has two tattoos (back and wrist) and she is very christian, highly against drinking, smoking, premarital sex, etc. her ears are gauged and she has a few other facial piercings. so i don't advise judging a person's moral values based on their physical appearance or how they express themselves. personally and somewhat contrarily to your comment, i would never date a person that failed to express their self in some manner. not necessarily piercings or tattoos but mostly through other outlets of expression... but, to each his own i suppose.</p>
<p>get a new friend jackht27. she's somewhat of a hypocrite. if she were that religious, she would know that the new testament explicitly states tattoos are not permissible. "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD." - Leviticus 19:28.</p>
<p>Last time I looked, Leviticus was not in the New Testament. Still, it's true that lots of Christians would look askance at a tattooed person. And that's really the point here: while there are many people who see tattoos as no big deal, there are many, many people who have a negative view of them, and who will make snap judgements about people who have them. If you get a tattoo, and especially if it is always visible, you are ensuring that a fairly large segment of the population will make negative judgements about you the very first time they lay eyes on you. While that might not matter to you right now, it might in a month, a year, or ten years. That, to me, is reason enough to think long and hard about doing this. So please, not on the neck.</p>
<p>Lots of christians have tattoos,
I have one. My pastor has one. My sister has one. Half of my church probably has one or has thought of getting one.</p>
<p>I love people's close minded judgement based on appearance. I realize it's just human nature to judge...but seriously, it's childish. </p>
<p>Also, it disgusts me how many times women with tattoos have been brought up on this board. Women are trashy, women are immoral. Oh my goodness. It reminds me of the 20's when young women were starting to dress provokatively, being called flappers. Who cares that people's opinions of them were not always so high, they wanted their freedom to dress and act how they choose. And that's all anyone with a tattoo wants, the freedom to get a tattoo, for whatever reason, on their skin.</p>
<p>I wonder if every person who gets plastic surgery, or their teeth whitened, or some other physical operation done is viewed as trashy in your guys' minds.</p>
<p>"I wonder if every person who gets plastic surgery, or their teeth whitened, or some other physical operation done is viewed as trashy in your guys' minds."</p>
<p>The difference is that those things are not necessarily obvious in the way a tattoo is. We could argue endlessly about whether a tattoo is, in fact, trashy. But the question here is how they are viewed, and by extension, what impact it might have on you to get a tattoo. The short answer to that is that, fair or not, a visible tattoo can hurt your image with people that you might want to have a good impression of you. Look, I don't like to wear a suit, but if I'm going to apply for a bank loan, I might wear one. If you have a tattoo on your neck, you don't have the option of temporarily not having it.</p>
<p>Oh and I completely agree with most of what you are saying Hunt. Visible tattoos can hurt your image.</p>
<p>I guess what is bothering me is that, even when people (like myself) who realize this and get it somewhere where it can be covered, people still call us trashy or stupid or whatever derogatory term they choose to use.</p>
<p>Even though I got my tattoo at a young age I realize that it is not generally accepted in every situation. Be it an interview, or a meeting, or something of the sort. Thus, it is usually covered and most people don't even know it's there. So why, if I take all these precautions, is it still negatively viewed?</p>
<p>"So why, if I take all these precautions, is it still negatively viewed?"</p>
<p>There are probably a bunch of answers, but the simplest one is probably that many older people grew up at a time when pretty much only lower-class or "trashy" people got tattoos. Sailors. Carny folk. Bikers. That association isn't obvious to younger people, of course.</p>
<p>IMO, anyone who judges someone based on what they look like does not possess an opinion you should worry about. </p>
<p>CERTAIN tattoos are considered trashy by most people, generally tramp stamps and the ones you see on young slutty girls. Others are just plain stupid if you want a real job, regardless of what they are of (i.e. wrist tattoos, neck tattoos). On a lighter note, you guys should check out badtattoos.com. It's hilarious. </p>
<p>CERTAIN tattoos are like art. And CERTAIN 18 year olds are mature and responsibility enough to understand the consequences of a tattoo.</p>
<p>Well these Christian ministers obviously don't abide to Christian law scrupulously. And I can assure you that those figures who do follow Christian law stringently, like the cardinals and the pope, do not have tattoos. Another interesting note is that because the old testament explicitly states tattoos are not permissible, Jews are forbidden to get tattoos. Those with tattoos are not allowed to be buried in Jewish cemetaries.</p>
<p>"I wonder if every person who gets plastic surgery, or their teeth whitened, or some other physical operation done is viewed as trashy in your guys' minds."</p>
<p>Many plastic surgery operations are conducted solely for medical reasons (burn victims) rather than to "beautify" the patient. And those that do get the surgery for cosmetic reasons or those that get their teeth whitened are trying to fix an imperfection. They are trying to fix a part of their bodies that they are self-conscious about. So in a way these cosmetic surgeries are self-therapeutic. And in a way tattoos can be therapeutic, but they are definitely not meant to fix any imperfection of the body. </p>
<p>And another reason why people with tattoos are looked down upon is because many criminals and gang members tattoo their bodies with gang emblems. Some people subconsciously connotate regular people with tattoos with gang members who are obviously tattooed.</p>
<p>79% of gang members are also Hispanic or African American, so according to your logic, Hispanic and African Americans should be "looked down upon". </p>