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Getting your pronouns tattooed? Really quite extraordinary

61 replies

nickymanchester · 20/04/2021 13:19

I presume this photo is genuine.

This young woman (she appears to be female) was showing off that she had had they/them tattooed on her collar bones:-

pronouns tattooed

I really do wonder what led them to want to take such drastic action?

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timeisnotaline · 20/04/2021 13:47

I don’t really care about this, it doesn’t do gender critical any favours to focus on someone doing something on their own body that doesn’t have to bother anyone else. I guarantee there are worse tattoos out there on visible body parts.

HermitsLife · 20/04/2021 13:44

@SmokedDuck

That will be a problem if they want to change them. My daughter, 13, was at a drama camp recently where they were asked daily what their choice for pronouns were. (She is so not in need of that bs, and it turns out all theatre stuff is full of it. So now she is stuck.)

Similarly at student union meetings at my university, you have a new identity card every time because these things are apparently not that fixed.

Daily? For 13 year olds?

Well that seems perfectly healthy and unproblematic

manatsu · 20/04/2021 13:44

See, this doesn't really bother me. It's clearly a big part of their identity and life and they want to represent that by getting it tattooed on their body. Some people do that with their Hogwarts house, star sign symbol, lyrics of their favourite band...

It's not for me, but it's not hurting anyone. Except the person who got needled, I guess Grin

SirSamuelVimes · 20/04/2021 13:43

Ah ha ha ha ha ha Grin that's going to be an embarrassing one to explain to the kids when she's older.

In total agreement about the apostrophe rules tattoos though. I think they should be forcibly tattooed on all children at the end of year six, like a graduation present. Wink

BrizzleGirl · 20/04/2021 13:42

I can't see it! Error 403 forbidden message comes up.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 20/04/2021 13:40

I wish some of the students I teach would get instructions about how to use the poor, oppressed and maltreated possessive apostrophe tattooed on them. Preferably somewhere they can easily see when writing the assignments that I have to mark.

RunHobbitRun · 20/04/2021 13:35

To be honest barbed wire and "They" "Them" doesn't immediately make clear "These are my preferred pronouns, please use them".

On seeing this tattoo I'd assume it was an album name/song name rather than a declaration of need to be identified in a specific way.

Each to their own though I suppose, at least the ink work is well done.

Clarice99 · 20/04/2021 13:27

Destined to wear off the shoulder garments for the duration of displaying preferred pronouns (not that everyone will pay heed in the first instance, but whatever).

At least there's a simple cover up solution if/when the mind is changed.

SmokedDuck · 20/04/2021 13:24

That will be a problem if they want to change them. My daughter, 13, was at a drama camp recently where they were asked daily what their choice for pronouns were. (She is so not in need of that bs, and it turns out all theatre stuff is full of it. So now she is stuck.)

Similarly at student union meetings at my university, you have a new identity card every time because these things are apparently not that fixed.

TheLovleyChebbyMcGee · 20/04/2021 13:22

Probably because they are fed up of people not knowing their preferred pronouns.

Tattoos are a very personal thing and it seems bad taste to mock them on am Internet message board.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 20/04/2021 13:20

Surely they should have them tattooed on their forehead instead, as the collarbones may be covered on some circumstances?

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