Tattoo annoyance

I've been getting a little annoyed lately at peoples' (and the media's) attitude towards tattoos. Every article in magazines these days seems to be written by your least favourite maiden aunt, and they all have a smug, I-told-you-so tone as they explain gleefully that you can stop getting tattooed now, because it's gone "mainstream" and thus isn't as "edgy" as it used to be. So all you wannabe rebels can go home now and find another way to piss off your parents. Now while I'm perfectly sure that there are people who get inked PURELY to annoy their parents/ prove what a badass they are, most people that I've met did it for the controversial reason of "I liked the design and it makes me feel pretty".

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Another new Thing that has annoyed me lately is the placement-prejudice. You get sarcastic annotated diagrams on the net ripping off all the possible placements for a tattoo; deriding people for having "tramp stamps", wrist tattoos, ankle tattoos, face tattoos... Any place on your anatomy, and they've got a snide remark about it, regardless of what the tattoo actually is. So where, pray tell, would NOT be a stupid place to get a tattoo, in your expert opinion? Not all tattoos are classy pieces of art, granted, and some people wearing them are perhaps not among the great thinkers of this century, but if people want to get a butterfly tattoo on their lower back, then who are you to call them a slut? If it's common, it doesn't have to mean it's stupid or classless. I don't see people making a fuss of the fact that, like, every second girl has lobe piercings in the EXACT SAME PLACEMENT! Anyway, prejudice is sooo last century...

So, in essence, I believe that people are entitled to get tattoos even though it's becoming more common, and they're damn well entitled to get them wherever they please without being harassed about it. Plus, the more people paint themselves, the more colourful the world becomes :)