Thursday, September 25, 2008

Accepted?

Lets begin with an analogy:
You are walking down the street and see a man who is dressed well but has more than a few visible tattoos. Now, you also see a man walking beside him that is dressed the same however, he has no tattoos whatsoever.

Who would you be more likely to be friendly and welcome to? Lets think about this. Although tattoos are apparently more acceptable in society today it is not just the senior citizens who frown upon tattoos, it's a wide-spread majority of people. You can't get a good job while exposing tattoos, you can't even work at a corporate restaurant like Red Robin, without covering tattoos up.

And I can't help but question, why? Why is it that from such a young age we are taught that the way you look doesn't matter, we are all different and that's okay, it's on what is on the inside that counts. If the truth be known I think that's a bunch of bs. Because if that were true, why are their still judgments towards something that is, in the aspect of life itself, completely minute?

Society needs to decide whether they are going to let prejudices like tattoos dictate their interaction with the people around them because even though "our generation" is accepting of tattoos, their is still a lot to work on.