Tattoos are a creative form of expression, just like any other type of art form. Paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso are deemed as beautiful art and I think it ridiculous that when art is on skin instead of a canvas it’s deemed inappropriate and rebellious.
Tattoos can have just as much meaning as the naked babies painted all over cathedrals around world. If you can’t get a job because you have a tattoo of the Mcdonalds arches on your eyelids, then find another job, someone somewhere will admire you for it (or think its hilarious), either way it makes a strong statement about your personality.
Do you really want to be a doctor or a lawyer if it limits your self-expression? Another argument is that “Tattoos will look ugly when you’re older”, you will be ugly when you are older anyway. That tattoo may get you some street cred in the nursing home. People say “Getting a tattoo is a big commitment” yeah, so is getting married, and most people plan that fresh from the womb without any problem.
People who look down at your for your tattoos are probably 99.9 years old, have no concept of freedom, or have a serious lacking of guts. Get a full body tattoo of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, or a hotdog on your inner thigh if you wanted to, tie dye your whole entire body just for the fact that it’s your body and you can do what you want with it.
2. Clothing: Since when did spaghetti straps suddenly become scandalous?
When did wearing anything less than an ankle skirt deem you promiscuous? The social code which determines how people should and should not dress, advocates unnecessary sexualization of the human body and inappropriate misconceptions about one’s form of expression through clothing. Everyone has a body, everyone has arms and a leg (hopefully) so why is it so improper to see those body parts? Wearing a swim suit in public is ok but wearing underwear, wow that makes perfect sense. When we are babies we can go just about anywhere in only a diaper, but when you reach a certain age you can’t even go to the gym in shorts without mislabeled as a “scarlet woman”. I’m not saying come to school completely naked (public nudity is still illegal) but if you think you have really rocking legs and want to show them off, go for it.
Anyone who thinks less of you for it is obviously lacking self-confidence or is blatantly over sexualizing a non-sexual situation.
3. Censorship: Censorship is certainly necessary in some situations, but the society has placed a derogatory connotation on inoffensive things. People can say the words “hate” and “rape” and “kill” but as soon as someone utters a s-word it is the most horrific, unethical offensive thing you could ever say and you should probably spend a couple years in prison only eating soap for every meal? I personally don’t use swear words but people around me have and when they do I don’t dramatically clutch my chest, contemplating the nearest place for ear removal surgery to protect my precious virtue. Say the F-word casually in my presence and I’ll get over it, say you hate my guts and I might shed a couple tears. The words that should be censored are the words that hurt people, not meaningless curse words. Censorship in TV and movies can also be a bit ridiculous. We don’t need a kidz bop version of “talk dirty to me”.
There’s a 100% chance that your kid has already heard the real version numerous times. We don’t need a middle finger censored on TV. We aren’t naïve; when we see the blur we don’t think “I wonder what’s behind there, a bagel? The entire cast of Glee?” we know, when we see a hand raised with blur it’s no mystery someone is being flicked off. It may be scandalous when we are 5 years old but as teenagers censorship is a bit ridiculous, I mean nothing can desensitize a person more than walking through the halls of any average American high school.
