Getting your pronouns tattooed? Really quite extraordinary

[nickymanchester]

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?

Well, if tattooists are open and taking commissions, they probably want the money. They'll be self-employed.

Also, masks are really great disguising yourself for the purpose of photos. I will be continuing to use mine for that even when the pandemic is over!

On the plus side, at least she's put some thought into it and not woken up with a string of stars on her arm, after a night out.

But yes; this is going to date badly.

That's quite sad . They have painted themselves into a corner, making it doubly difficult for them ever to change their minds; hostage to their own tattoo.

Reminding people is going to be a bit chilly in winter.

Doesn't help that I keep flashing onto a great black and white horror film about ants 😁

I don’t get the barbed wire ...

@YetAnotherSpartacus

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.

Surely you mean the proper uses of there, their and they're?

@TheLovleyChebbyMcGee

poor, oppressed and maltreated possessive apostrophe tattooed on them

Do you mean the tattoo that people get to signify their struggles with mental health? It used to be a semi colon, but some are just apostrophe's.

Seems harsh to judge them for that

Shouldn't that be "some are just apostrophes"?

Hahahahahahahahaha

Thanks for that laugh.

On a similar note, this cat's reaction to the girl telling her pronouns is cosmic:

twitter.com/tappy1008/status/1384405655876943874?s=20

you just need to order a special pen form delores umbridge, spartacus and get the kids to copy out the rules a hundred times, that should do it...

as for the tattoo... my response is: oo that looks sore...

I quite like them! But I like tattoos. In general i think getting them in such prominent places is very brave (work etc) but it seems to be a thing now.

It also could refer to anything.

Meh.

Given that the sex of this person appears obvious from a shot of a small portion of anatomy, it seems unlikely that different pronouns will protect them from misogyny, but perhaps it’s the optimism of youth.

Perhaps in future it’ll be a badge of honour to have tried.

I thought the sex was ambiguous. Still not sure

@highame

I thought the sex was ambiguous. Still not sure

I agree highame. That's why I put in my OP

(she appears to be female)

Rather than just saying "This woman..."

I have met a couple of transwomen that could easily have had that same photo taken.

I weep for today's girls.
In my day we rebelled by getting our ears pierced (one hole only, of course)
And also we rebelled by getting anorexia. (most of us recovered)

Now girls are rebelling by getting dreadful tattoos and taking irrivirsible drugs. It is so sad. :-(

Doh spelling - irreversible irreversible ...

I can’t agree that anorexia was/is mostly harmless - it has one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness and can cause serious damage even if you survive.

But I do think it’s important to look at why trans identity is partly replacing it and how they seem to be driven by similar feelings.

MrGHardy, thank you so much for that cat video link! It was hilarious. What a perceptive, GC cat.

@highame

I thought the sex was ambiguous. Still not sure

Ah well. If I got it wrong and they sees the thread, then them’ll probably be delighted.

Given how effective “push” and “pull” on doors are, I can’t see this having the (assumed) desired effect

[quote MrGHardy]Hahahahahahahahaha

Thanks for that laugh.

On a similar note, this cat's reaction to the girl telling her pronouns is cosmic:

twitter.com/tappy1008/status/1384405655876943874?s=20[/quote]
I need to stop watching that. Its too funny 1

[quote MrGHardy]Hahahahahahahahaha

Thanks for that laugh.

On a similar note, this cat's reaction to the girl telling her pronouns is cosmic:

twitter.com/tappy1008/status/1384405655876943874?s=20[/quote]
Someone on that Twitter thread, wrote
“If you watch closely, the cat seems to roll its eyes at about eight seconds.”

@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.

They were asked daily?!?! OMFG. Can't believe there are adults out there who enable and reinforce this nonsense.

I'm pretty GC and I'm old but I do think outrage at this makes people look like intolerant and petty. Crap tattoos don't automatically lead to irreversible drugs.

The kids are covered in rubbish tattoos these days. As long as no-one is making me tattoo my pronouns I don't give a shit.

OMG that cat! That cat knows the rule. Who is she, the cat's mother?

Nope.