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Many many people today celebrate their right to be an individual by some of the things they choose to wear, tatoo or pierce...

My question is...when you see someone like this...do you stare or do you look away??

I wouldn't say I stare, or look away at all. As for clothes, I don't have any issues with what others wear. It's the tattoos and piercings they get that are tribal - especially when they have no such heritage. It's with that.. that I say they have no right to have them on their body in any form and it's a mockery of what the tribal work stands for.

Rich

Neither. I just accept them as another normal human. To either stare or make a point of not staring would be to assume that they are so out there that they are on another planet (In my own opinion, that is) and they are just being their normal selves.

I have to admit i sometimes stare...I mean if they are decked out in plaid and platform shoes...with a pink mohawk and Marilyn Manson makeup...isn't that what they wanted me to do...LOOK????

I don't believe thats what they want you to do. When I get all decked out in my Goth look, I'm just expressing another part of my personality, a part of what makes me ME. (See my profile for an example) But it doesn't mean I'm dressing that way to make people look at me. If they feel the need to stare thats their issue, ya know??

nope i jsut let them go on about their day they are no different then i am expecpt they express them selfs alot better. its no different if you want to listen to heavy metal rock and someone wants to listne to classical they are way to express ones interself

not so much. there is little that gets my nerve, except those baggy hanging down pants wearing guys.yuk, that is just ugly. while i may not care for the all the many piercings i see some wear i am not afraid to speak to them about it. as for the outrageous hair and tatoos, i will look, and sometimes say something to them. i love to see great art work. individuality is wonderful. i'm all for it.




















as long as it aint my kid piercing his face all over.
now, one son does have his tongue and eyebrow pierced(it is actually tasteful) his ear and something a little lower. i am so glad he didnt go any further, but i would have learned to live with it. like i already did. the other one has his nipples, ouch....and ear pierced. and they both have tatoos, pretty ones except for one, he also has his unit patch tatoo'd on his arm. that one is ugly.
kat

No offense or anything...But (blackparade) how old are you?

Great point Prof! I see alot of people with the same kind of tattoo's. It make's me laugh! I have younger sister's that are wanting ink and they've told me some of the idea's they have. They're common idea's and I'm doing my best to get them to think more about what they want.

My tattoo's are original. I can honestly say that. Like, how many people do you know that have a "Loonie" (Canadian dollar coin) tattoo'd on their stomach underneath their belly button? I only know one person, ME! You know, "All you can eat for under a buck!"

You said just the reason why at the begining. People are expressing their individualtiy, not doing it to make people stare or look away. Mind you there may be the slight few who go full throttle for nothing but shock value (Marilyn Manson).

I could careless nor do I stare or look away from people who do things to their hair. I might even outright love or admire what someone has done but not attempt it myself. I may not be as brave as many, or as brave as I would like to be sometimes, due to my career and what is acceptable in my workplace. Piercings are no shock to me either and have a couple of my own. I would think that in this day and age hair style and color, clothes, piercings and tattoos are not so out of the ordinary anymore. Hell, maybe it's because I lived in Toronto so many years. After Toronto, nothing shocks me as to what people do their themselves and trust me, there are over 7-8 million people there all expressing themselves, LMAO.

I say if you feel like looking look. I have had my head shaved completely except for a spot in the front and back wich I braided. I've also had a mowhawk a couple different times, and tri colored hair. It never bothered(sp) me if people wanted to stare. I was just doing it to enjoy myself and try something new.

All want to be individuals and different as long as they are still part of the crowd.

The one I'm getting is a 1 of a kind, and is drawn by one of the best tatt artists in the southwest US *grins*

Individuality?


I cracked up when my sister said (about my niece), "I can see her being an artistic type. I think she has enough sense of self, not to become a Goth (to be an Individual)."

I use to love it back in the 80's when I drawn attention to myself....Wore spikes all over like Judas Priest, under the spikes was looking like old school Motley Crue, Had a mohawk that was about 2 1/2 feet tall. Had my nose peirced with a chain that ran from it over to my ear and down to my nipple. I would go out with my buddies and walk around the malls. I was like this till I turned 26. People was always scared to look, or at least when I looked at them, they looked away, lol.

Now, I dress like a biker with the vest and all. My vest has some original patches, and I still get the same reaction...I eat it up, love.

I think originality is great, says your a leader and a risk taker, not a follower and very boring...lol

I haven't got any tribal tats, but I got plenty of tattoo's that are either skull or occult related, and one of a heart with two bullet holes.

I express my individuality by not doing all that stuff. I gonna be in a crowd all by my lonesome.

I admit that I look away. My peers never had tatoos or weird haircuts (but my hair looks weird anyway I cut it), so I don't understand it. I guess I am a little intimidated by my ignorance, and that is why I look away. I have a friend in a wheelchair and before he was injured, I looked away from other handicapped people. But since I have seen and learned about my friend, I have no problem with interacting with other handicapped people.

LOL..I have to agree that kind of stuff seems more "follow the leader" than individuality sometimes.

Yup!