Fashion, Style, Trends And Their Influences

A friend of a friend thought it would be really fucking edgy and angsty as an early teenaer to get a tattoo that says "arbeit macht frei" on his arm. These days when people ask about it they think he was a neo-NAZI or something and he says "the truth is much worse: I was a pretentious emo kid who really thought my struggles at school and with girlfriends were worthy of comparison to the holocaust."

Teenagers gotta think before they ink

 

The thing I don't understand about tattoos is the permanence of them. Plus I think it's like defacing one's own body. I wonder how many people who got tattoos years ago regret having them now. I can't see someone getting a tattoos in their early 20s and still liking that tattoo when they're 50 or 60.

 

I know quite a few, though I can't claim a representative sample, I also know people who have tattoos that they regret but not so many.

I do live in the most inked country on the planet, so it may well be a cultural thing.

Personally, I don't understand the use of phrases like "defacing one's body" as if blank skin must somehow be held to be sacred. There often seems to be a strange tone of moral panic to the language that people use around tattooing, I suspect it's the legacy of Christianity.

 

There's been a few tattoos I really wanted that I never got and I sit here a decade later thinking thank fuck that. meant a lot to me back then, shit, I know of ninjas like me who got the tattoo and a decade later have burned them off with a big hit iron. Just a little regret maybe?

 

Cool.
If that comment was about blacks, everyone would be all over you, calling you racist.
But it's about whites, so it doesn't matter. Really nice.

 

*whispers* because no one really thinks that white culture is at risk of being destroyed...

 

If that comment was about blacks I’d have to give up my union card


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