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Just because I was reminded by the comment in the main thread, do pierced septums, tongues, and gauges give anyone the major ick? Nose studs? Fine. Belly button piercings? A little wierd but fine. Any non-face tattoo? Fine. But hoooooly crap does anything more than a tiny septum piercing make me uncomfortable. Not just like, “oh that’s weird” but almost I find it physically repulsive that larger ones I find it hard to even look. Ear gauges also, anything bigger than a button. Tongue piercings in any size. Is this just a human “looks like that would hurt” reaction, or is there some other component maybe? Curious if others feel the same but are more/less vocal about it, or if it’s just a personal issue.
I was raised as conservative Christian (how conservative? Useless question, too relative) but in liberal Oregon, if relevant, so at least it’s not purely a lack of exposure thing.
It's all degenerate and disgusting. Especially the tattoos, since you can't just go and remove them when you come to your senses. Plus, the massive proliferation of tattoos to the point where many people are just inked up with doodles for the hell of it is...WTF. In any case, no.
That kind of body modification is transhumanism for dumpsters. Any stupid bullshit goes in there so long as it's fashionable.
Also in Old Man Yelling At Clouds today: Stop dying your hair and grow out your eyebrows; those ridiculous marker lines above the eyes make you look like a caricature of a woman.
Random doodles you'd expect on toilet walls in a pub, but on your skin, as tattoos, ~permanently. Genuinely incomprehensible to me as anything other than a purely negative signal.
Large, elaborate, but a coherent work of art - fine.
One or two small ones, clear focus - rolling my eyes, but fine.
Indelible mark that communicates to an exclusive group one's belonging to that group - A tattoo is a natural choice.
Art that wouldn't work if it wasn't on a body - Could have done the same thing without making it permanent.
Fine art that could have been hung in a frame - Just hang it in a frame.
Humour or material that only means something to you - Just stick it to a pin board.
A design that you want people to see you wearing - Just print it on a t-shirt.
Incredibly niche specific purpose, like disguising blueprints so that you can smuggle them into prison or enacting a strategy to deduce who murdered your wife despite persistent amnesia - You're a character in a screenplay.
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When I was young there was a trend among Mexican teenagers to pluck out their eyebrows and draw a brown mark approximately where the eyebrow should be. It looked horrible. Beyond forgivable. And the natural look of the Mexican girls is quite good. They were running their looks.
I don't see so much of it these days. The dark times have mostly passed.
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I don't like tattoos either, but I've realized recently that a big complex sleeve offends me less than a bunch of smaller tattoos. Maybe those people were right, and size really doesn't matter?
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