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If you can only get rid of Tattoos or Obesity in the West-which one?
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<blockquote data-quote="debeguiled" data-source="post: 1155853" data-attributes="member: 7867"><p>It is a provocative question, a good way to get a conversation started, and if we take it in that sense we will have a better thread.</p><p></p><p>I am wondering if age affects this, as in, older guys are going to hate tattoos more because they remember when you hardly ever saw one.</p><p></p><p>I know for me, this trend towards tattoos and body modification is nearly incomprehensible, just as platform shoes and disco shirts were for my parents.</p><p></p><p>The obvious difference is that as an attention seeking going with the crowd move, clothes are better than tattoos because you can throw them away, and don't have to spend the rest of your life explaining your dumb youthful choices or even worse, pretending that you still think your tattoos were a good idea.</p><p></p><p>If you are younger and have grown up with tattoos as normal, it will be much harder to understand the near revulsion of some of us seeing them. </p><p></p><p>The best way I can explain it is that the human body is a part of nature, and you don't look at a beautiful mountain and think, man, what that thing needs is a big billboard with a cartoon on it.</p><p></p><p>That is how I feel about it for women, and for the most part I leave other men's decisions up to them and don't worry about it.</p><p></p><p>I even think there is more to it than just generational preferences. A woman's skin is so beautiful, and when you first see a tattoo, especially a large one, it looks like injury, decay, or some sort of skin condition, and then your mind goes, oh, tattoo. I am especially momentarily repulsed by full neck tattoos because for one subliminal moment, I am seeing a skull floating over a rotted neck, like something out of a horror movie.</p><p></p><p>So I can sympathize with AM when he imagines healthy skin, and is suddenly faced with patches something like frostbite, ecxema, vitiligo, or a case of walking dead. </p><p></p><p>It is no more and no less than an oddity of the modern world.</p><p></p><p>It speaks not only to a misunderstanding of what the opposite sex finds attractive, it is a marker of impulsive, following the herd behavior.</p><p></p><p>With all that said though, I am still picking obesity. I get really annoyed with women, but I don't want them to get diabetes or die early, and I don't want them to suffer from the loneliness that comes with making yourself unattractive.</p><p></p><p>I think that if I met a woman and I liked everything else about her, I could make myself tolerate the tattoos, and I don't think I could do that with the other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="debeguiled, post: 1155853, member: 7867"] It is a provocative question, a good way to get a conversation started, and if we take it in that sense we will have a better thread. I am wondering if age affects this, as in, older guys are going to hate tattoos more because they remember when you hardly ever saw one. I know for me, this trend towards tattoos and body modification is nearly incomprehensible, just as platform shoes and disco shirts were for my parents. The obvious difference is that as an attention seeking going with the crowd move, clothes are better than tattoos because you can throw them away, and don't have to spend the rest of your life explaining your dumb youthful choices or even worse, pretending that you still think your tattoos were a good idea. If you are younger and have grown up with tattoos as normal, it will be much harder to understand the near revulsion of some of us seeing them. The best way I can explain it is that the human body is a part of nature, and you don't look at a beautiful mountain and think, man, what that thing needs is a big billboard with a cartoon on it. That is how I feel about it for women, and for the most part I leave other men's decisions up to them and don't worry about it. I even think there is more to it than just generational preferences. A woman's skin is so beautiful, and when you first see a tattoo, especially a large one, it looks like injury, decay, or some sort of skin condition, and then your mind goes, oh, tattoo. I am especially momentarily repulsed by full neck tattoos because for one subliminal moment, I am seeing a skull floating over a rotted neck, like something out of a horror movie. So I can sympathize with AM when he imagines healthy skin, and is suddenly faced with patches something like frostbite, ecxema, vitiligo, or a case of walking dead. It is no more and no less than an oddity of the modern world. It speaks not only to a misunderstanding of what the opposite sex finds attractive, it is a marker of impulsive, following the herd behavior. With all that said though, I am still picking obesity. I get really annoyed with women, but I don't want them to get diabetes or die early, and I don't want them to suffer from the loneliness that comes with making yourself unattractive. I think that if I met a woman and I liked everything else about her, I could make myself tolerate the tattoos, and I don't think I could do that with the other. [/QUOTE]
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