Tattoos- Manosphere

[Mattius]

Haha thanks for the insight guys. Now I feel kinda like a fucking pleb for the reasons I got mine. To give a background I live in Australia and am half Chinese/Japanese. I have always been interested in art and loved the distinct Japanese art surrounding the culture and stories such as stuff found in the Suikoden. I was always intrigued by the art found on Yakuza(not that I at all condone their way of life, but also having relatives who were in said gangs).

So I got a Japanese themed tattoo from an artist in Tokyo. TBH I can see the link between tattooing and undesirable traits in women. Sadly I find something innately sexy about a woman with tattoos. In my mind it denotes danger or some kind of challenge, but evidently that is not an endeavor that guys here are exponents of.

Anyways, thanks for the insight guys. Much appreciated as always!

 

[blairnaso]

Building off of the ^^^, I was a Classical Languages major, and I will tell you all that you should NEVER get a tattoo in a language you don't speak. Even if the translator is someone you trust, even PhDs make mistakes. And languages are so nuanced, there may be a better phrasing you have in mind. Plus, you look like an idiot if you don't know literally what your tattoo says.

That being said, I'm willing to make a little side money if you want something translated into Latin or Greek for a tattoo...

 

[Saweeep]

I love tattoos. They really fascinate me; especially traditionally made Polynesian patterns.

On other people.

 

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Tattoos look ugly, very few exceptions notwithstanding.
Tattoos display impulsiveness and a lack of consideration for the future.
Tattoos are attention whoring, made for fun and coolness rather than a rite of passage.
Tattoos advertise promiscuity and rebellion against traditional sexual norms.

I could go on and on, but you get the point.

 

[Sooth]

If I ever got a tattoo it would be something making fun of tattoos, like "Draw your cool tattoo here" in comic sans.

I don't mind tasteful tattoos on men, especially if they have the body to wear it proudly and it means something to them rather than just racing stripes.
The worst are those "my friend was learning how to ink so he did a stick figure on the back of my hand while we were drunk" ones that are common among grimy hipsters.

Can't stand tattoos on women.

 

[Snowplow]

I've always wanted tats. But the problems I have are commitment issues, the fact it's pointless now and the fear of them turning out like shit or the artist messing up.

Although I do have mad respect for guys who keep them colorless and only use black ink.

 

[PABeaulieu]

Tattoos are nothing more than a symbol of conformity on the skin of many people, not everyone, but many.

 

[dads]

Tattoos look ugly, very few exceptions notwithstanding.
Tattoos display impulsiveness and a lack of consideration for the future.
Tattoos are attention whoring, made for fun and coolness rather than a rite of passage.
Tattoos advertise promiscuity and rebellion against traditional sexual norms.

I could go on and on, but you get the point.

Hey man, my grandma wants her opinions on tattoos back.

 

[Ingocnito]

Tattoos are nothing more than a symbol of conformity on the skin of many people, not everyone, but many.

Tatts, beards, and bisexual females are all fads that people imitate en masse.

Not all tatt owners, beard wearers, and bisexual females followed the herd, but most have... with a "special reason" to justify flowing along.

I've been saying a new phrase around posers who seemed to adopt all this shit to conform. Instead of saying;"Living the dream.." I say "Living the look."

Did I mention ear gauges? Blaaach. Fugly.

 

[zatara]

Tattoos are regarded as extremely ghetto in many parts of the world. In the UK its extremely uncommon for anyone who's been to a decent university to have a tattoo. They're a very working class fashion.

Its actually a useful enough way of avoiding ghetto people on holidays in warmer climates - just steer clear of the inked up chavs.

If it wasn't for this class aspect to it I'd say the right tattoo can look good on a guy in his 20s in good shape. But they look universally awful on a 50 year old white collar professional at a beach with his family...so they're just not worth it, really.

 

[MdWanderer]

Tattoos are regarded as extremely ghetto in many parts of the world. In the UK its extremely uncommon for anyone who's been to a decent university to have a tattoo. They're a very working class fashion.

Its actually a useful enough way of avoiding ghetto people on holidays in warmer climates - just steer clear of the inked up chavs.

If it wasn't for this class aspect to it I'd say the right tattoo can look good on a guy in his 20s in good shape. But they look universally awful on a 50 year old white collar professional at a beach with his family...so they're just not worth it, really.

Be luckly you don't live on the West Coast of the U.S. People without tattoos are the outsiders. Many women who otherwise dress nicely (short skirts, heels, nice hair, makeup) have them too which messes up the symmetry. As bitchy as some East Coast girls can be, thank god that this isn't as common here.

 

[RexImperator]

Tattoos make women appear to be more promiscuous to men and make men to appear to be more of a "bad boy" to women.

 

[TheWastelander]

I wish we could go back to the old days when it was primarily servicemen, criminals and bikers that had tattoos. They seemed a lot more meaningful then. Now a ton of people have them.

My great uncle was 10 years old when he got his first and only tattoo back in the 20s. He was the oldest kid in his family and his parents were busy taking care of his siblings, so he'd wander around Cincinnati by himself. Anyway, some guy offered to buy him a tattoo and he agreed. He got a tattoo of a dagger on his right forearm. He told me that he wore long sleeved shirts for a couple days before his mother discovered it and got pissed.

It actually didn't look that bad, even when he died a couple years ago. It had that old school prison tattoo quality to it but it was pretty well done.

Dude led an interesting life. When he was 13 he train hopped around the country to find work.

He was pretty much my stand-in grandpa since my maternal grandfather died before I was born.

 

[General Mayhem]

I've held out on getting one my entire life despite many offers from people who wanted to go "get tatted" with me. It's miracle I never got one when I was a private and everyone else was getting them.

It's crazy how impulsive girls are with tattoos. I have known girls who had a bad week and then went out and got a tat just because.

Who knows if I will end up with one or not.

 

[VincentVinturi]

I always find it strange when people say they don't want to get a tattoo because they're afraid they'll come to regret it later.

Life isn't that long.

Certainly not long enough for regrets about a little ink.

People act like these things last forever but you'll be fertilizer in the blink of an eye.

 

[Roosh]

Life isn't that long.

Certainly not long enough for regrets about a little ink.

Have you seen some of the tattoos people are getting now? We're looking at a 3-5 year timeline of regret.

 

[blairnaso]

Whenever an old person tells me, "Don't get a tattoo. It's permanent, and you'll regret it," I say, "Yeah, that's how I feel about marriage."

Lots of things in life are permanent. The college major you choose at age 20 is permanent. Or if you decide not to go to college at all, that may be permanent. The career path you choose may be permanent. People have this weird fear of commitment about everything. They always want the ability to go back and choose something different. The person you marry (hopefully) is permanent, or being a bachelor might be more permanent than you think. That one girl from back then, the one you should have married and could have, but you let her pass by because you weren't sure what you wanted, she's gone permanently. Like, how many times do you go to a restaurant and stress over whether you should get the chicken or hamburger, knowing both will taste good? We're obsessed with choice in this culture, and we don't know when to say, "Fuck it. Good enough."

And yes, ear gages are the mark of a man-bitch. They're not cool-looking and never will.

 

[blairnaso]

Life isn't that long.

Certainly not long enough for regrets about a little ink.

Have you seen some of the tattoos people are getting now? We're looking at a 3-5 year timeline of regret.

I knew a girl growing up who got some kind of abstract blue fairy on her lower stomach. Not so low that she was couldn't to unzip her pants a little to show me at church, but still low enough to be very much a sexual thing.

Then she got married at age 19 and started planning for a pregnancy. She probably got two years out of it before it looked awful. Although that's a weird area to have a tattoo anyway.

She should have gotten a dolphin. That way it would have at least turned into a whale and still made sense.

 

[kosko]

It's to common place and a fad now. People simply do it for hamster reasons to conform hence why more women in the West now have more ink then men.

Avoid it if you can because a man will always go for younger women and slowly the trend will be for young women to do a reverse and NOT get any ink. The whole pure and clean look of skin will make a comeback and will automatically toss out all the women who drank the ink kool aid as expired old ham. As a man you don't want to be lumped into that. Tattoos in the future will be a marker for the millenal losers who where the biggest whiners and complainers in all of history.

In the end, some girls are already starting to buck the trend. I nearly cried when a 19 year old broad said she likes clean skin over ink and won't get any to stand out. The tides are slowly turning.

 

[El Chinito loco]

Now here's a man who understands what tattoos are all about.