Perceptions Of Tattoos On Women
I came across an interesting article in The Urbanite Magazine about people’s perception of tattoos on women.
Do people really think that tattoos on women mean they are circus freaks, drug addicts, biker chicks or whores?
Here are a few stories from women with tattoos.
When Michele Stuart-Johnson came home with her first tattoo twenty years ago, her mother gasped. “You look like a ruffian,” she said.
Shamia Johnson’s spouse thinks multiple tattoos on women—including hers—“are unladylike.”
Trai Dagoucon was inked for nearly a decade before either of her parents caught a glimpse of her tattoos. Both were appalled, for different reasons. “The only people who had tats in her world were bikers and wrong-side-of-the-tracks-type people,” Trai says of her Southern mother. For her Asian father: “It’s gangsters.”
I’m quite amazed how Trai managed to keep her tattoos hidden for so long!!
Tattoos on women do mean more to them than what people think, it can mean beauty, identity and power to name a few.
Tattoo artist Johnny Love has inked far more women than men is his decade in the industry. What better way to sum up tattoos on women is what he says “It’s art that’s living and breathing, it’s inside your skin cells. It’s not just hanging on walls.”
Still, relationships inspire many tattoos on women.
Shamia got her grandparents’ names tattooed on her ring finger. She says, “They were married for sixty-six years when my grandmother passed. I did it for luck.” Apparently, it worked; she has since remarried.
Other reasons for tattoos on women can be an expression of ethnic bonding, coming to terms with “culturally enigmatic” ethnicity and celebrating life passages.
Read the full story here on the perceptions of tattoos on women.
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