Responses To Asinine Comments About Tattoos

Defensive much?

I have one tiny tattoo you can only see when I’m wearing a bathing suit yet every time I go to the beach I have to deal with stupid questions like this.

Thank you for these fabulous responses I can use next time people feel like being idiots. :)

Word up! People need to accept that tattoos on someone else don’t hurt them and shut their damn mouths.
Or say nice things. I like compliments.

How do you display your insecurity regarding your ugly tattoos?

Oh I write a passive aggressive Thought Catalog article about it. 

I love this! I’ve been thinking of getting my first tattoo, and this just made me want to get it even more…I can’t wait to bitch out these kinds of folks :)

Perhaps the worst written and least amusing thought catalog post in recent memory. Go get your cold roses or twin peaks tattoo and consider yourself “different”. Tattoos are trendy in this culture – not statements of individuality or cultural heritage.
Sarah Marshall: And you know what? Let me tell you something about these tattoos, okay. That is Buddhist, that is Nordic, that is Hindu, that’s just gibberish. They are completely conflicting ideologies, and that does not make you a citizen of the world, it makes you full of shit! 

Thank you so much for this.

this was awesome — funny and very true. i have several tattoos and have been asked all of these questions many times.  you have some great posts. :)

I would never say any of these things.  I would just think the tattoo was stupid and then be grateful I never made such a mistake because everyone in my sorority was getting one.

Also: http://www.oneyearintexas.com/2010/10/debate-tattoos.html

Damn this girl is crazy

i’m getting my first tattoo friday. i’m getting really nervous about it but reading this made me feel so much better.
mila, you kick ass.

Perfect! This title and article opens up my submission for “Responses to Asinine Comments about TC Articles.” 

I will use my comments as examples of asinine comments.

Thank you for this article!  I live in a very yuppie-ish area and I regularly get comments like these.

Tattoos are played out.

Like rap music, grillz, and Hummers.

“But you’re excluding yourself from certain social groups!”
Listen, people who are freaked out by anything unconventional,
unexpected or different are people I probably wouldn’t want to hang out
with anyway.

It’s funny because you get tattoos to include yourself in a social group. These days being age 16-28 without ink makes you unconventional, unexpected and different.

I like the tattoo debate because it’s the most perfect embodiment of peoples’ desire for others to conform to their own idea of what the world should be. Other common debates that come from that desire – abortion, gay marriage, religion, etc – there is at least a potential argument for the social ramifications and maybe a justification for why “I” want “you” to do the things I think are good. But with tattoos it’s SUCH a personal choice – a choice that REALLY doesn’t affect anyone but the bearer of the tattoo – it’s so laughable, so vain, so self-indulgent, so primitive for people to criticize others for getting them. I love it, people are so stupid.

I refuse to look at tattoos, especially when they’re on someone I love and care about. It hurts too much to look. I say nothing and try to hide my quiet dispair.

The author of this piece certainly has a chip-filled shoulder. You truly protesteth too much, and I suspect deep down acknowledge the truth to certain remarks made in your under-employed, MBA-less, colorful direction.

Most of the tattoo parlours in my area sport a TATTOO sign on one side of the building, and a TATTOO REMOVAL on the other. That ought to convince anyone, but it usually does not.

I get “are they real?” all the time. Baffles the mind!

These days, tattoos aren’t really risque or cool, different or daring. Everyone and thir mom has some ugly blob that holds some really deep meaning.

You have a lot of soul.

“Now you can’t get a government job.”Lies.  There are plenty of people who work for the government and have tattoos.

I certainly believe that people are entitled to put whatever they want on their bodies – it’s none of my business, and I would never approach someone about it. But if I see someone with blatant tattoos, in my mind I’m thinking trashy, trashy, trashy, trashy. No different than a mullet, or a too-short miniskirt, or a camel toe. I just think it’s tacky. But hey, everyone has a different idea of taste. To each his own.

I have an MBA and tattoos. Why do people hate me?

You had me at ‘I don’t like your whore makeup’.

The “won’t they look bad when you’re old?” question isn’t referencing the age of 80, but the age of 40 – remember, these are twenty somethings who have no concept of age and time.  And frankly, the answer to the question is “yes”.  You will look absolutely foolish in between the ages of 40 and 60 with full sleeve tattoos.

Also: whore make up?  That’s some misogynistic shit right there.