AIBU?
to want a facebook status 'meme' thing that says...
GeorgianMumto5 · 11/06/2013 13:00
...stop sharing meme posts about your tattoos and how I shouldn't judge you for having them.
I'll judge whoever I damn well like, thank you, and at the moment it isn't you. Stop drawing attention to yourself in this manner. (Except for you, person known to me who bangs on about them a lot. I do judge you, because some of yours are hideous and in poor taste.)
Well, am I? sigh Yes, probably. IABU for starting a thread about Facebook and to criticise the glorious 'art that you can take to the grave', apparently, but I do feel so much better for getting that off my chest, as opposed to tattooed onto it.
GeorgianMumto5 · 11/06/2013 13:10
Dorange, am I that transparent? 
Actually, I don't mind them per se. I mind the constant, aimed at no one (I don't think they're aimed at me - I seethe very quietly) status updates, reminding us all not to judge the inked.
Tattoos aren't for me, in the way that drainpipe jeans aren't either, but if other people want them, they really don't need to seek my approval in this roundabout way. (Except the person I obliquely referred to. She should, if it would save her making any more errors of taste and judgement. Honestly, one of hers is shocking!)
Ilovemyself · 11/06/2013 15:44
Mamachubbylegs. Unfortunately yes they do.
There a lot of people out there that like to get whipped up into a frenzy by some of the press and they think that people who have tattoos lack intelligence ( I guess the doctor that had a nice back and neck tattoo that operated on my wife is not that intelligent......)
And if people didn't judge then it wouldn't matter when you go for a job. But it does.
GeorgianMumto5 · 11/06/2013 17:22
Thing is, my tattooed lovelies, people do judge, but people are always going to judge something and this is something you choose to do. I think if you're going to get a tattoo done then you should feel free, but then you just have to accept that some people are going to make snap judgements, based on your body art. Those making the judgements may be entirely wrong, but you can't be entirely surprised by it...can you?
Ilovemyself · 11/06/2013 17:57
I am not surprised by it. It shows that some people can be very narrow minded though. Why judge someone based on that? Is it not the same as judging someone by the car they drive or the clothes they can afford.
You don't know what that person is like or what they do for a living when you judge them ( not you personally of course) - they could be a doctor or a paramedic, and may well save your life. And my wife and I give blood - is that not something that is a good deed and something you would not expect a person of bad character would do.
The trouble is it acceptable to judge someone because of a lifestyle choice if it doesn't hurt anyone else the. It shouldn't make a difference, so why do people get so offended.
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