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souffles-and-trowels:

i-wear-the-cheese:

little-troublegirl:

critink:
[[Skank Flank: The New Tramp Stamp]]
A few days ago, @forestine sent me {this article}. It’s another “tattoos are soo trendy” article from a major news source. Like we haven’t heard a thousand people tell us this before.
But here’s the part that really bothered her, and me:
… a popular placement for women’s tattoos has moved from the lower back to the rib area.
“We call it the ‘skank flank,’” [the tattoo artist we interviewed] said. “Every week or two, I see another girl with another rib piece, and you have to tell them that.”
Excuse me?
Wanting to get a discrete tattoo that you can easily cover up makes you a skank?
Since when are ribs considered a sexual body part?
Really, if nothing else this makes the fact that “tramp stamps” are body shaming that much more clear. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term body shaming, it’s a cultural phenomenon that essentially makes everything you do with your body wrong. You’re fat? Lazy and disgusting. You’re skinny? Eat a cheeseburger you look anorexic. You’re fit? You look like a man. And so on. It’s designed to make women (and increasingly men) feel bad about their body, no matter what they do or how they look.
Here is how the same douchebags would like us to view tattoos:
Lower back tattoos: you’re a tramp
Rib tattoos: you’re a skank
Wrist tattoos: you’re a dumb skank
Arm tattoos: you’re a whore
Leg tattoos: you’re a whore
Feet tattoos: you’re a whore
Shoulder tattoos: you’re a whore
Tattoos anywhere: you’re a whore
No tattoos: you’re still a whore.
There is no bit exaggeration in this. Anyone who would call the girl above a skank for getting a Disney tattoo on her ribs is a fucking idiot.
All of this language is used to control women. To make us judge each other’s bodies, feel self-conscious about our own, or dictate what we can or can’t do (with tattoos, weight gain/loss, or anything else.)
Really, the best way to nip this in the bud is by calling out anyone who uses the language of “tramp stamps.” The logic is the same in both, and by having conversations with people on why this sort of language hurts women, we can start reclaiming our ability to tattoo whatever parts of our body we want.

ugggghh

what is wrong with people

The fuck? Since when? :|

I honestly don’t see the appeal of getting a tattoo, but, honestly now, what someone decides to do with their body really in no way gives us a right to criticize, insult, mock, or try to shame them for it.
As a society, we all agree we don’t want anyone telling us how to live our lives, what to do, what we can and can not do with our body, how we can look, and so on but yet most of us also then turn around and try to do just that to others… One really can’t say any of this is a new, modern phenomenon, things like sexism and racism and homophobia and discrimination and hate and so on have existed for essentially forever as far as I can tell, but the fact we can SEE these problems and see that they ARE wrong IS something found only in the modern era.
We’re finally learning to recognize that hate and discrimination of any kind is wrong, because just as someone has no right to act in such a manner towards you, you have no right to do the same to them, so it’s simply up to us as a society whose eyes are slowly opening to begin to put in the work to finally change these misconceptions, stereotypes, bias’s, and just generally hateful idea’s that we’ve for so long encouraged and helped strengthen.

i-wear-the-cheese:

little-troublegirl:

critink:

[[Skank Flank: The New Tramp Stamp]]

A few days ago, @forestine sent me {this article}. It’s another “tattoos are soo trendy” article from a major news source. Like we haven’t heard a thousand people tell us this before.

But here’s the part that really bothered her, and me:

… a popular placement for women’s tattoos has moved from the lower back to the rib area.

“We call it the ‘skank flank,’” [the tattoo artist we interviewed] said. “Every week or two, I see another girl with another rib piece, and you have to tell them that.”

Excuse me?

Wanting to get a discrete tattoo that you can easily cover up makes you a skank?

Since when are ribs considered a sexual body part?

Really, if nothing else this makes the fact that “tramp stamps” are body shaming that much more clear. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term body shaming, it’s a cultural phenomenon that essentially makes everything you do with your body wrong. You’re fat? Lazy and disgusting. You’re skinny? Eat a cheeseburger you look anorexic. You’re fit? You look like a man. And so on. It’s designed to make women (and increasingly men) feel bad about their body, no matter what they do or how they look.

Here is how the same douchebags would like us to view tattoos:

Lower back tattoos: you’re a tramp

Rib tattoos: you’re a skank

Wrist tattoos: you’re a dumb skank

Arm tattoos: you’re a whore

Leg tattoos: you’re a whore

Feet tattoos: you’re a whore

Shoulder tattoos: you’re a whore

Tattoos anywhere: you’re a whore

No tattoos: you’re still a whore.

There is no bit exaggeration in this. Anyone who would call the girl above a skank for getting a Disney tattoo on her ribs is a fucking idiot.

All of this language is used to control women. To make us judge each other’s bodies, feel self-conscious about our own, or dictate what we can or can’t do (with tattoos, weight gain/loss, or anything else.)

Really, the best way to nip this in the bud is by calling out anyone who uses the language of “tramp stamps.” The logic is the same in both, and by having conversations with people on why this sort of language hurts women, we can start reclaiming our ability to tattoo whatever parts of our body we want.

ugggghh

what is wrong with people

The fuck? Since when? :|

I honestly don’t see the appeal of getting a tattoo, but, honestly now, what someone decides to do with their body really in no way gives us a right to criticize, insult, mock, or try to shame them for it.

As a society, we all agree we don’t want anyone telling us how to live our lives, what to do, what we can and can not do with our body, how we can look, and so on but yet most of us also then turn around and try to do just that to others… One really can’t say any of this is a new, modern phenomenon, things like sexism and racism and homophobia and discrimination and hate and so on have existed for essentially forever as far as I can tell, but the fact we can SEE these problems and see that they ARE wrong IS something found only in the modern era.

We’re finally learning to recognize that hate and discrimination of any kind is wrong, because just as someone has no right to act in such a manner towards you, you have no right to do the same to them, so it’s simply up to us as a society whose eyes are slowly opening to begin to put in the work to finally change these misconceptions, stereotypes, bias’s, and just generally hateful idea’s that we’ve for so long encouraged and helped strengthen.

(via the-heir-of-trickery)

Source: critink