Why do people get such piercings and tattoos?

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by wynn, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    15,058
  2. Guest Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  3. jmpet Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,891
    The ultimate root cause of this whole sensation is the instintality of Facebook, Twitter, cell phones, text messaging and so on.

    We are all spoon fed that THIS is the moment of reality: to make a statement; to define yourself. This is where 90% of the tattoos out there come from.

    These people don't realize they're going to live another 60-80 years. How foolish it will be to nurses in old folks' homes undressing and seeing JUDAS PRIEST tattoos all across the back of this man who can no longer shit properly.

    I went through my rebel phase but I made no permanent changes to my life in the process; see: freaks.

    What would Tyler Durden have to say???
     
  4. Guest Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  5. Enmos Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    43,184
    Wtf? Are their IQ's known?
     
  6. Guest Guest Advertisement



    to hide all adverts.
  7. Mrs.Lucysnow Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    9,879
    The body modification fetish started long before twitter and facebook. To say they are freaks would be an understatement. Some I imagine genuinely do not like themselves where as others are using their bodies as an extreme aesthetic canvas which is what body modification embraced from the very beginning.

    Personally I find most of them to be wrecks but that's just me.

    I do think you have a point in regards to not thinking of the future. They've forever marginalized themselves and there's no way to turn back.

    I understand body tattoos but I find it strange when people fuck with their faces. But then again we have an entire industry around plastic surgery where faces are lifted, lips are filled, make up is tattooed, eye lifts, cheek fillers and god only knows what else. So what do those pictures represent but an extreme form of mainstream attempts to alter the body? Other cultures have done it but its mostly been adopted as the norm within the culture; foot binding is a good example as well as the Kayan tribe in South East Asia that uses several rings around the necks of young girls to lengthen the necks and african lip plates (Here are some pics: http://www.divinecaroline.com/22361/101835-ouch-extreme-ethnic-body-modifications)

    I find this a little more disturbing:

    "A British mother has sparked controversy after admitting that she has given consent for her 14-year-old daughter to have semi-permanent makeup tattooed onto her face, Closer Magazine reports."

    http://www.stylelist.com/2010/08/27/sophie-watson-14-makeup-tattoos/
     
  8. phlogistician Banned Banned

    Messages:
    10,342
    To say they are freaks would be closed minded.

    People tattoo, and pierce, and tan, and wear make-up and hair extensions, and push up bras, and contact lenses, and get surgery to conform to some meme of perfection.

    These guys reject that. They use these techniques and do something different.

    All it means is that you have bought into the meme. That just means you are closed minded.
     
  9. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    33,264
    Some people enjoy to be sensationalists and go above and beyond anything that is "normal" to stand out in public so they go to these extremes to get attention drawn to themselves.
     
  10. Cifo Day destroys the night, Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    685

    They were given IQ tests, and the results came back negative.

    Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!



    They weren't perfect as nature intended them to be au naturel?

    They are quite the example of crying for attention ... "Look at me!"

    External symptoms of internal problems ... pitifully sad internal problems.

    So ... what possible job do these people work at? Who'd hire them? The circus?
     
  11. Mrs.Lucysnow Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    9,879
    Ummm. Well that is pretty much what I pointed out. I call them freaks because they have taken body modification to the extreme, hence freakdom. All the other means of body modification are part of the social cultural norm. Foot binding seems freakish but at the time it was a cultural norm and expected, it was the women with very large feet that were considered 'freakish'. So yeah I do consider them to be freaks
     
  12. phlogistician Banned Banned

    Messages:
    10,342
    'norm' hmmm, you still don't quite get it do you. Having breast implants because others have them doesn't make that unnecessary surgery OK, while having horns implanted isn't. I think one of the points of such body modification is to open a dialogue about 'norm', and actually, how pathetic it is people aren't happy being outside the 'norm' so much so, they'd rather sport fake tits, teeth, and hair, in an attempt to become liked.

    People that like the guy with the horns, like him for his personality, not his perky tits.
     
  13. phlogistician Banned Banned

    Messages:
    10,342
    Actually, I think you'll find that glamour models with body mod tits are the ones wanting attention.

    But it's tits, so that's OK, right?

    Don't you think it's sad that a big pair of fake tits is all it takes to propel a model into the media?
     
  14. Ripley Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    1,411
    Okay — so what sort of attention is being sought? To plainly say "they want to stand out", or "they want to be liked or disliked", or "they want to counter the status quo" is too general. I think one has to look into the tickings of their milieu to better grasp their psychology. To measure them up against conventional standards is not the point. As a matter of fact, when I look at their faces, their composure, their "auras", I get a sense of strong integrity—a calm satisfaction, bordering on happiness, in being.
     
  15. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,913
    Vomity as it looks to me, I don't make moral or psychological judgements about them.

    See, women do this quite a bit. Breast enlargements, facelifts? That's extreme too. But no one passes judgement on how mentally broken or childishly attention seeking they must be.

    I judge people by how they treat those around them. Not by how many bits of metal you have in your face.
     
  16. Naturelles Future Scientist Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    214
    Yea, weirdos.

    And some people think tattoo's make them more attractive, BS! They look ugly.
     
  17. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    33,264
    Many people who have tats don't even expose them so how would you know about their "aura's" if you can't see what lies beneath" ? Then there are those who have

    them everywhere so that they can be noticed but those tats have been put on, many times, at different points of their lives to represent what they thought at that time.
     
  18. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,913
    Very good point. Thank you.

    Myself, I'm dying for the days when outlandish mods are every bit as commonplace as blue jeans, or that roll of fat on the belly and hips every ten-a-penny female over the age of 16 carries about these days. I'm looking forward to being just another unremarkable part of the social landscape, rather than 'that girl with the mouth ring and weird implant in her lower abdomen'. (my surface piercing)
     
  19. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,913
    I think normal people are often weirdos, myself.

    I think there's something weird about wanting to be all the same, or at least cling to a median range. I think that is pathological and a sign of a weak, childish mind. I think life is too short to conform like that. I'm gonna die one day, ya know. I'm not spending my limited life being one of the herd just to please people.

    Btw not all tattoos are ugly. True a lot of people have half baked ones, but some are well done. A girl I used to kickbox with had a really ornate one on her wrist of a butterfly. Very detailed, right down to the antennae.
     
  20. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    33,264
    But you already are within the culture and people you deal with daily.
     
  21. visceral_instinct Monkey see, monkey denigrate Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    7,913
    True, but not 100%.

    I'd like people to react to my metalwork by not noticing, rather than with 'Oh poor young woman, no one talked her out of doing that' or 'What a fucking attention seeking brat. Someone smack her and put her to work in a nursing home'.
     
  22. Naturelles Future Scientist Registered Senior Member

    Messages:
    214
    I'm already very much not a part of the herd by being who I am in essence. If you know me, you might think that I'm a very weird person (well, that's how I was at school, the complete oddball out of the entire group)
     
  23. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

    Messages:
    33,264
    But you already are an individul, unique amongst the people you know with or without those tats. They enjoy you for who you are not what you tat/pierce yourself with. But you knew that already.
     

Share This Page