hw 32 tattoos and the presentation of the self

tattooing can show or represent cool because of what people think they symbolize. Some people think that if you have a big tattoo, it plays a big part of your life. To me, tattooing doesn't signify anything. When i see someone's tattoo, i just think of them as an advertisement. I don't complement them on the tattoo, i complement the creator, the person who inked their skin up to make a very intricate piece of art. I think of a person with a tattoo as sort of rebellious, especially when you ask them why they got that certain tattoo, and they say, because i like it. Most times there is no story behind a tattoo. sometimes people get them and barely see them because they are not in eye sight. just like a tramp stamp. Most girls that get tramp stamps maybe just like them because of what they represent in our culture. They make the girls feel a bit more sexually desired. I don't think tattoos are a good way of representing yourself, but it is a good way to represent an artists work on your body, just like an advertisement, that when people see, are going to invest their time and money in to.

I think that now tattoos have become too popular in american societiy and evryone is starting to grt them. In sports such as the nba, the majority of players get tattoos. Usually for me i think of it as their way of brcoming men and lving a lifedtyle that many people only dream of having. Maybe each tattoo symbloizes an accomplishment in their lives. I think that not having a tattoo is not a way that people feel speacial. There are many other ways that people reject themself from what society offers. I don't think people who don't have tattoos feel speciial, they probably thought of getting one at one poin but just never had the committment that others have to getting one.

I feel that tattoos are ways for people to trap a memory forever and the way they rememebr it is by having it permanently plastered on their skin, in a unique and maybe abstract way, so that when they look at it, they always remember. like one of my teachers has a tattoo of a music note on her wrist. She said she got it when she formed her band and they became serious about their music. I know she's going to remember that tattoo becuase it froze a time in her life by putting it on her body, sdo no matter how old she gets, she's going to remember eveerything that the band had to offer, all she has to do is look at her tattoo.