I think I need to clarify why tattoos made my “sick of” list. I want to stave off a flame war before it starts. The quickest way to start a flame war (besides posting about circumcision, right Lindsay?) is to post either affirmatively or negatively about tattoos. That was not my intent. I am quite libertarian about the subject. They’re just not for me. I repeat: I don’t hate tattoos; they just aren’t for me.
I think it’s gone beyond my own personal taste. Tattoos have gone the way of disco and the ‘F’ word. When something that is known as edgy or “cool” gets becomes so mainstream that even your grandmother has taken it up, it ceases to be “cool”. When I was growing up, having a tattoo told the world you were colorful, adventurous, rebellious, and a little dangerous. That’s gone now. Now, they’re just part of the human dress code.
A little confession: I love, REALLY love, women’s skin. Trust me, I married the right woman – she has the most beautiful skin I’ve ever seen. I hope no one takes offense, but when I see a tattoo on a woman, I feel like someone’s put a billboard on the beach. It may have a heart-felt message, the artwork on the billboard may be beautiful, it may even have a message that could save the world. But it obscures the even more beautiful view of God’s creation. But this is my particular fetish. It’s me, not you.
I do not think tattoos are sinful, or ugly, or make a woman “loose”. In fact, now that everybody’s got one, they don’t mean anything except to their bearer. And that’s OK.
Now that I’ve gone on record with this, watch me get a Harley and “Born to Ride” tat on my 65th birthday…
February 27, 2007 at 6:19 pm
I didn’t think you meant it that way.
I just like messing with you.
February 27, 2007 at 6:54 pm
The only difference between someone with tattoos and someone without tattoos is that the person with tattoos DOESN’T care if you are tattooed or NOT!
February 27, 2007 at 8:07 pm
What if a girl were to get a tattoo of your wife’s skin?
February 27, 2007 at 9:08 pm
I agree – I think a tattoo is so yesterday. I’m 39, and came of age around the time that tattoo’s were the thing to do. Thankfully, I resisted. My dad would have disowned me, and I didn’t have the heart to disappoint him so much, plus I had the foresight to realize that a tattoo is forever, and the feeling you have at the time of getting it may not be. I am SO GLAD I don’t have one. I have talked to many women (and men) who hate their tattoo and have spent loads of money trying to have them removed.
February 28, 2007 at 6:55 am
I like my tattoo.
But you got a live thread here, STBF.
If you were wondering, it is an Egyptian symbol of the Eye of Ra.
I got it because my best friend in college and I were going to get matching ones.
When he died, I got it for me to honor him.
So, there’s the story.
Sending *hugs*
February 28, 2007 at 7:11 am
newscoma,
It would take a deep friendship to do something like that.
Aunt B: That’s pretty deep. I’d have to think about that.
March 6, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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March 26, 2007 at 11:38 am
[...] Don’t tell Slartibartfast, but the Recovering Baptist is considering some body art: I’ve been browsing the Lone Wolf Body Art website (that’s who everyone recommends in Nashville, they do the Vanderbabies and the Dixie Chicks so they must be good, right? And you know they’re goth because they use the font) and I’m amazed at the number of women who want tattoos that go down well into their coin slots. I mean, how do you even tell the tattoo artist that’s what you want? “I’m thinking it would look awesome if it like, went down into my butt crack. Can we do that? Awesome.” I don’t get it. Am I old? I was thinking a fleur de lis on the lower back but I think my co-worker has just about talked me into a tattoo of Jesus in acid washed jeans that says “Livin’ on a Prayer” in a little scroll underneath. What do you think? Too Bon Jovi? [...]