“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.
When I was young, I saw some dude with a biohazard symbol on his calf and thought that was cool. I told myself I’d wait until I was 25 to get inked.
25 came and went and I couldn’t think of anything cool to get. Now I’m old and proud of the fact I never got a tattoo. Maybe when tattoos aren’t cool anymore I’ll be super old and won’t care and will have plenty of dead beloved pets behind me to immemorialize on wrinkly, saggy, liverspot-splotched skin.
I’m in a similar boat, but I wouldn’t say I’m “proud” of it. I don’t see having a tattoo or not as a moral or ethical question. I don’t really see anything to be proud of (or not proud of).
If you’re getting, or not getting, a tattoo based on the popularity of tattoos, then I think you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.
I’m just highly impressionable and want people to think I’m cool (I might be a little less-so now…one of the perks of aging), so I could have seen myself jumping to get one in a clumsy attempt to collect coolpoints from others. So, in light of knowing myself, I’m proud I exercised a little bit of strategic foresight and thought about my own long-term health and desires first.
It’s a good thing you didn’t get that tattoo. A biohazard tattoo signifies that you’re HIV+ in the gay community
Huh, I wonder if that applied to the guy I encountered. Might explain the reaction I received when I complimented it.