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Toys'R'Us sells plenty of toy guns and Bratz dolls--Mr. Cockeyed seems happy just to poke a little fun, but, if one were searching for the most damaging and offensive items on their shelves, there are almost certainly better candidates.
Also, constructions like 'tramp stamp' and 'slut saddle' seem like they might be a little misogynistic, and perhaps not very respectful of tattooing as an art form. And these things bother me a little. Maybe you disagree, or maybe these things don't bother you the way they do me. YMMV, if you will.
But, there is also something offensive, or maybe just strange, about a parent placing a toy tattoo on the small of a back of a little girl. Maybe that's just me being a prude again, I don't know. The small of the back is usually covered with clothing. The child can't see the tattoo. Only other people can when she bends over to gather her books or put on her bike helmet.
I think it's a little strange myself, but it seems to fall squarely into the category of kids wanting to emulate adults (one of my most heavily-tattooed friends' daughter loves temporary tattoos), and it seems pretty harmless, as far as that kind of stuff goes. Though I suppose that's predicated on thinking that tattoos are harmless.
I don't see a big problem with it. I've never heard those tattoos called any of those names, though, so maybe in other circles they're considered lower class?
(s_r - speaking solely for myself, it's not really the tattoos that I don't like -I have a few tattoos of my own, so not for me to judge anyone else's-, it's the fact that you can see them usually when a woman is wearing waaaay low cut, crack-baring jeans that gives them the smack of low-classitude)
Nah, s_r - for me it's the ubiquity. A friend of mine has a gorgeous purple and blue feather there, which I quite like but it was the first I'd seen when she got it in first year (of uni). Shortly after that it seemed that every young woman had one and they were all really similar and not at all interesting, and I was totally over-exposed (the heat- and fashion-induced midriff-baring tops and low-rise pants worn by many of the girls in Brisbane didn't help).
I think they can be nice when they're tasteful and different, but that's not most of the time.
Though I suppose that's predicated on thinking that tattoos are harmless.
I don't know that it's that simple. When I was growing up in the 1970s, my family's (sheltered and academic) immediate circle definitely found actual tattoos a little "other"-ish and probably not harmless, but the temporary tattoos that all the kids slapped on (oh, I loved temporary tattoos!) didn't seem to trigger any adult disapproval.
I suspect, though, that if I'd started temp-tattooing my lower back/upper ass, along my thighs where they peeked out of my shorts, cresting my blossoming cleavage, there would have been A Talking-To.
gaspode that's so true- in 50 years you'll definitely be able to peg which generation someone's from by back tattoos and those "tribal" armband tattoos.
I'm the only person in my famiy without tattoos (everyone has to rebel in some way or another I guess. Also, I'm cheap.)
usually when a woman is wearing waaaay low cut, crack-baring jeans .
These days it seems like they don't make any other kind anymore. I've seen the 'coin slot' of just about all my co-workers (male and female) so many times that it's boring. I always wear a belt to spare them the same spectacle.
Joe Invisible... I just LOVE Wooderson, especially that scene where he hits on the 70s version of the little red haired girl...
I still can't believe that was McCaughnehey. (Geeze his name's hard to spell. I had to google it three times to get it right.)
(Also, I once scrubbed one of these tattoos off a friend's back after a night out in Vegas. Not easy to remove. She was nice, but rather heavy-set, and smelled kind of sour. Not a pleasant experience, I'm afraid. But how do you say no?)
I've seen the 'coin slot' of just about all my co-workers
OT story: When I was a Domino's pizza driver in college, any display of ass-crack (which could happen, because those heavy navy pants tended to gap if you didn't wear a belt) was an invitation to have an anchovy dropped down there. Apparently the spices felt really... WARM on sensitive skin.
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