{"id":189,"date":"2007-03-12T22:45:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T03:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2007\/03\/12\/tattoo-taboo"},"modified":"2018-01-02T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T04:00:01","slug":"tattoo-taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2007\/03\/12\/tattoo-taboo","title":{"rendered":"Tattoo Taboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby decree&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Quit the tattoo discrimination!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I would never get a tattoo. Not only am I deathly afraid of needles, but I just don&#8217;t fancy a permanent painting in my skin. Not my bag.<\/p>\n<p>However! I&#8217;m sick of how society seems to view people with tattoos with such disgust. God forbid someone isn&#8217;t standing perfectly straight with perfectly short groomed hair in a perfectly pressed little grey suit.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYeah, I said I personally would never get a tattoo, but that sure as hell doesn&#8217;t mean I think nobody should get one. And you&#8217;d better believe it doesn&#8217;t mean I in any way look down on those who do.<\/p>\n<p>You get employers not hiring people because of a tattoo being visible. Like a drawing of Foghorn Leghorn on your forearm means you&#8217;re incompetent. Like a pretty little rose on your neck means you&#8217;re dangerous. Thing is, yeah, employers tend to be ridiculously critical over stupid shit like that. Fine. But why are they? For one reason, they&#8217;re afraid their idiot customers and clients might be offended that they hired a *gasp* tattooed person! And the only reason that would be a concern is the widespread prejudice of body art deviating from one earring per earlobe, and even then, girls only.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just another of those things where people don&#8217;t seem to realize that just because they choose to do something or not something for themselves, it means nobody else should do it.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the tattoo prejudice comes the stereotype of the tattooed always thinking they&#8217;re big bad nonconformists. While, yeah, anyone who scars their body for that reason alone is rather silly, it&#8217;s just a dumb belief that anti-tattoo people convince themselves to justify a completely ludicrous idea. It doesn&#8217;t change the fact that you&#8217;re discriminating against people for, really, what their skin looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps anti-tattoo folks are embarrassed at the presence of tattooed people and others whose look doesn&#8217;t fit the ideal. One might look at some chick with a nose ring and pink hair with disdain, but really, that person probably knows they&#8217;d be way too embarrassed to ever go out in public looking like that. It&#8217;s another situation of idiots pushing their insecurities on others.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, at least with hair color prejudice, they can just wash it out. Can&#8217;t remove a tattoo. Not easily anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It is just something society will need to get past. It will but very slowly. Humans are just very shallow beings sadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby decree&#8230; Quit the tattoo discrimination! Personally, I would never get a tattoo. Not only am I deathly afraid of needles, but I just don&#8217;t fancy a permanent painting in my skin. Not my bag. However! I&#8217;m sick of how society seems to view people with tattoos with such disgust. God forbid someone isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2007\/03\/12\/tattoo-taboo\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tattoo Taboo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decrees","tag-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}