haha
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
I think so. First, I am seeing more and more very middle class looking maybe a little chubby women sporting extensive tattoos; maybe fully covering both calves, or one entire shoulder. Nothing will turn off the hipsters faster than having Old Navy shoppers adopt their form of rebellion.
Tattoo parlors were formerly found only on seedy portions of seedy streets. Now they are in suburban strips malls.
Third, there has been a long evolution from a time (my boyhood) when lower class men, sailors, pool hall habitués, and oilfield roughnecks wore tattoos. I remember seeing a few on women, and they were a strong statement of serious rebellion. (This I could pick up from how other people reacted.)
Now, women are more likely to be tattooed than men. No matter how much of a feminist you are, this is not a prestige enhancing shift.
But my final evidence was hearing a young couple talking in the seat behind me on the bus. The woman had some truly odd ideas, like she claimed to have seen one of the Blue Angels parachute out of his plane over Lake Washington and the plane crashing during the SeaFair airshow last weekend. The guy very reasonably argued that this was impossible without them having seen anything about it on TV. He was respectful, after all she was a pretty young woman, but he was trying to bring her up to speed in more or less reasonable ways of thinking.
Next he announced that they had been invited to a pool party at the bank where he worked. Then they proceeded to fret for miles about how she might avoid baring her tattoos, without looking totally strange. She wasn't even offended that he thought it was not good to show them, more distressed at the embarrassment possibly coming her way.
That's it for me, I’m short tattoos Monday AM!
Ha
Tattoo parlors were formerly found only on seedy portions of seedy streets. Now they are in suburban strips malls.
Third, there has been a long evolution from a time (my boyhood) when lower class men, sailors, pool hall habitués, and oilfield roughnecks wore tattoos. I remember seeing a few on women, and they were a strong statement of serious rebellion. (This I could pick up from how other people reacted.)
Now, women are more likely to be tattooed than men. No matter how much of a feminist you are, this is not a prestige enhancing shift.
But my final evidence was hearing a young couple talking in the seat behind me on the bus. The woman had some truly odd ideas, like she claimed to have seen one of the Blue Angels parachute out of his plane over Lake Washington and the plane crashing during the SeaFair airshow last weekend. The guy very reasonably argued that this was impossible without them having seen anything about it on TV. He was respectful, after all she was a pretty young woman, but he was trying to bring her up to speed in more or less reasonable ways of thinking.
Next he announced that they had been invited to a pool party at the bank where he worked. Then they proceeded to fret for miles about how she might avoid baring her tattoos, without looking totally strange. She wasn't even offended that he thought it was not good to show them, more distressed at the embarrassment possibly coming her way.
That's it for me, I’m short tattoos Monday AM!
Ha