Times are Changing

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  1. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    So I had an appointment with my new doctor earlier this month. He was young, maybe in his thirties. Nice guy from what I could tell. The thing that caught my attention were all the tattoos running up and down his arms. I've never seen a professional sporting so much body art. I think this is the new trend--young professionals who show their generational attitude through body modification. Even police officers are showing the same stuff.

    It just caught my attention. That's all. I assume I will be seeing more of it in the near future.
     
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  3. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    There sure is a lot of body art around. It used to be a working-class distinction, but is no longer so. We keep noticing it particularly on young women. Some of the art is really interesting and attractive. Women seem to have a better sense of the ratio of graphics to negative skin-space; on some men, the ink is so dense as to look unclean.
    Getting that stuff done hurts! I have to wonder: Why are people so desperate to show individuality... that they end up all looking like each other?
     
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  5. Ophiolite Valued Senior Member

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    They want to look different; just not too different.
     
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  7. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    That is very well said. The distinction is lost when everyone is doing the same thing. Funny but true. Thank you.
     
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  8. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    If you aren't playing the same game, you can't win.
     
  9. cluelusshusbund + Public Dilemma + Valued Senior Member

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    No tatoos... but our new (about 3 years) family Dr. is female... she grate... very frindly/respectful... an shes gay (which my wife figered out by readin her face book page)... so as far as i know this is the first gay Dr. ive been to so thats a changin times for me.!!!
     
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  10. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    Yet they all look the same, though. Where are the winners? Note: I have two tattoos. My daughter wants to get one but I'm trying to convince her that she's perfect already, and very much her own person.
     
  11. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    How old is the daughter? Very young people often do what's fashionable in their cohort, only to regret it when they're out in the wider adult world.
    Tattoos are very difficult to remove. What some people who have an emblem, image or name they no longer want associate with, do is have a bigger, darker image tattooed over top. More pain and more skin surface obscured.
    So, if the girl insists, or you think she might go ahead regardless of your advice, at least get her to discuss the options. Looking at a catalogue together, comparing designs, talking about who might see it in what circumstances, and what may happen later on, could make her more flexible, since you are taking her seriously. All people like to be taken seriously - not just kids.
     
  12. billvon Valued Senior Member

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    Probably not. It is just the first gay doctor you have been to that you've known about.
     
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  13. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    She is 18 now. She seems to be fixated on one of my own tattoos, which is a sun and a moon, the symbolism being life and death. For whatever reason, it has some special meaning for her. Her boyfriend just recently got a tattoo, so there's added incentive. I've been telling her to give it careful consideration, for the same reasons you mentioned.

    Being that so many people now sport body art, I think it's more original to not have any at all.
     
  14. cluelusshusbund + Public Dilemma + Valued Senior Member

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    Likely... an if so... no Doctors ive known of in over 60 years has ever left clues that they are gay.!!!
    She always asks thangs like... have you been on any trips or have any trips planed... an she seems genuinely interested... an she tells somethin about her life such as bein wor out playin wit the 4 boys (she has 2 an her partner has 2).!!!
    She always seems so hapy an interested in life... an it feels good seein an exampple of people not havin to be as secretive as so many did in the past... an all in all it makes goin to the Dr. more pleasant.!!!
     
  15. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    I sort of agree, but suspect more people want to be 'with it' than original. Anyway, there is nothing wrong with body decoration - people have been doing it for some 30,000 years. As long as she doesn't want a forked tongue or 18" earlobes.... Actually, body art is a form of communication; it's an invitation to be noticed, read, understood. A tee-shirt with a message on is cheaper and easier - but way less interesting!
    Hey! Doctors is people! We have a cranky but competent and diligent old guy we're hoping won't retire before we die. I try to make him laugh at least once every visit - and usually succeed.
     
  16. Retribution Banned Banned

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    Never been a fan, really. I think it's become a fad, and that fad has taken away all the meaning.

    Girl I was with some 20 years ago came home one day with a 12" high Sonic the Hedgehog on the outside of her upper leg.
    She was so proud of it. didn't have the heart to tell her what I thought, having to look at the damned thing every time we were naked, but... my own desire level took a bit of a hit.

    I liked her legs, goddamit.
     
  17. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    I have two small tattoos--one on my shoulder and another on my forearm. I don't regret having them since they are small pieces of artwork (one is of my own creation.) What I find disturbing are the massive tattoos that occupy most of an area, such as the whole arm. I do think people go way overboard with body art.
     
  18. Billy T Use Sugar Cane Alcohol car Fuel Valued Senior Member

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    Im nearing 80 years old, so not surprisingly I have none. Hell, 45 or so years ago, I would not let my two daughters even get the ears pierced for ear rings until they became 12 years old.* To best of my knowldge, they have no tattoes and will not let their teen-aged children get tattoed.

    A few of us, natural, unmodified, bodies are advancing into future generations - I'm proud of that - its more unique now.

    * It really disgusts me to see a baby, too young to walk with rings in its ears.
     
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  20. sideshowbob Sorry, wrong number. Valued Senior Member

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    I saw a girl once with cat tracks tattooed all the way up her leg. It's the only tattoo I've ever seen that I really liked.
     
  21. Jeeves Valued Senior Member

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    What scares me is those humongous Jesus and Mary pictures - the whole back or chest or both, plus legs and always the arms - all over the soccer players.
    Imagine having that in your bed!

    I do like some of the dainty floral wreaths around girls' necks - though, of course, they can never wear jewellery on a bare cleavage, and some of the fancy script is Gaelic or Sanskrit.
     
  22. Bowser Namaste Valued Senior Member

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    That would be distracting, to say the least.
     

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