Tattoo Discrimination?!

Originally posted by gefallen_engel
I think that discriminating based on how someone looks is bull I have 10 tattoos and 9 piercings, 5 piercings are on my face. people look at me like they are afraid I am gonna kill them or something. I have been turned down by 2 jobs b/c of how I look. It is time 4 people to grow up and get a life. the human body is a canvas and it is each persons right to decorate it as he/she thinks is fit it is nobody elses place to judge that person. It is the person who recieves the ornament who has to live with their decision not anybody else. some people need to mind their own business

Private businesses have the right to hire who they want. If you are applying for a position with a business, they have every right to judge you. After all, should they decided to hire you, they will have to live with your body modifications as well.

I don't have tatoos but I have two little piercings and I didn't get job for it (distributing of advertisement handouts). I was little angry and I really didn't understand.
so I hate this tattoo and piercing discrimination..
I hate all discriminations

I want tatoos when I'm older but at the minute I'm not old enough, I'm 16 so only 2 years to go... *waits*

Dude you have to be 16 in england...

tattoos are better than piercings

they are just a poor excuse for a tattoo

OMG My boogie started this thread ages ago cry how cute! And im still in his siggy.

Good ol' days.

I'm in it too 😱

How many times did that happen to you?I doubt it if it happens all the time no many people trust teenagers because they are quick to judge.
But I never had that trouble and i have a tattoo on my arm of the deathmark.You may be geting upset over notheirng.JM

no matter what nobody should base their opinion of what kind of person you are on how you look. It is wrong. Just because a person looks different than most people doesn't mean they are a drug addict or a psycho. my point is that people should get to know me before they determine what type of person I am. 😕

Originally posted by eggmayo
Dude you have to be 16 in england...

What you on about? I am 16, 18 to get a tatoo ain't it?

Originally posted by gefallen_engel
no matter what nobody should base their opinion of what kind of person you are on how you look. It is wrong. Just because a person looks different than most people doesn't mean they are a drug addict or a psycho. my point is that people should get to know me before they determine what type of person I am.

In an ideal world, one would be judged on the content of his character and not on his appearance. Unfortunately, the reality is that everyone makes judgements about others based on physical appearance. What does your physical appearance say about you?

my physical appearance just shows that I don't give a crap about what society percieves as normal. I decorate my body because I feel it makes me look beautiful. I am very happy with how I look. in reality this world is superficial. The real beauty a person has should be based on what is on the inside, not on their outward physical appearance

I'd like a lizard, tiger & a Chinese sign on there, oh, and my star sign would be nice (The Scorpio) 😊

Originally posted by gefallen_engel
my physical appearance just shows that I don't give a crap about what society percieves as normal. I decorate my body because I feel it makes me look beautiful. I am very happy with how I look. in reality this world is superficial. The real beauty a person has should be based on what is on the inside, not on their outward physical appearance

If the statement you are trying to make with your physical appearance is that you do not care about what society thinks, why get upset when society at large reacts to it?

When you go out to a social gathering and you see someone attractive, do you say to yourself, "He or she looks really good on the inside,"? No, you do not because you do not see someone's insides when you meet them, you see their outsides first. If what you really want is for people to get to know you on the inside, why put up barriers in this way?

I don't make judgement on what kind of a person somebody is until I get to know them because it isnt fair to judge without knowing. I probably do get to upset about what people think but I just don't think that it is fair for someone to say things about me when they don't know what I am about

Originally posted by gefallen_engel
I don't make judgement on what kind of a person somebody is until I get to know them because it isnt fair to judge without knowing. I probably do get to upset about what people think but I just don't think that it is fair for someone to say things about me when they don't know what I am about

You think people make judgements because of this?

Originally posted by Punk Tiger
What you on about? I am 16, 18 to get a tatoo ain't it?

In the tattoo parlour where my cousin works its 16... so I figured it was the country over.

Originally posted by eggmayo
In the tattoo parlour where my cousin works its 16... so I figured it was the country over.

Really? No fair... 😠 I want one know!

Originally posted by Punk Tiger
You think people make judgements because of this?

I think that people do. You have no idea how many times I go somewhere and people give me dirty looks or get in my face about how I look I actually had a guy get into my face and tell me I was sick because I look the way I do, he said it was a total disrespect.

Originally posted by gefallen_engel
I think that people do. You have no idea how many times I go somewhere and people give me dirty looks or get in my face about how I look I actually had a guy get into my face and tell me I was sick because I look the way I do, he said it was a total disrespect.

That's wrong 😠