Messages By: wildothang

I am a 55 year  old woman that is heavily tatted and has numerous peircings.  I started getting tattooed and pierced 30 years ago.  I love everyone of them and am not ashamed.  I display it all proudly.  I get stopped every where I go because people want to look at my tats and tell me how much they love them.  They all think I look great and can't believe I am 55.    

I have 2 sons and both of them have tats.  I took them to get everyone of their tats.  They both hold good jobs and are wonderful people.  The only requirement I had was the tats had to be able to be covered by clothing.  This allows them to have the no tat look if the situation or job required it.  

Tats and piercings are not the taboo they used to be.  Most kids go through a stage of wanting to be and look different.  Both of my boys went through this stage.  They all out grow it.  Tattoos can be removed and piercing will grow up if the person decides later they don't want them.    

Not all of us are bad bikers, punks, degenerates, etc.  We are loving, careing, hard working, decorated human beings.  

We do not get tatted or pierced to draw attention to ourselves.  We really do like the art and the look.  Just like you like the way you style your hair or they type of clothes you wear. 

I have a real problem with your statement that we need to do something positive with our lives.  Do you think that everyone that has a tat is a low life bum? 

I have over 50 tats and numerous piercings.  I am highly educated and I was in upper management of a major oil company.  My two sons are tatted , hold good jobs, and are  very clean cut looking.  One son served 5 years in the military.  My father had a tat that he got while serving in the Navy.  He retired from the telephone company with 40 year perfect attendance. 

The goth look is usually a short lived phase.  Both my sons went through it.  As they got older they matured and realized they needed an acceptable look to be able to earn a living in this world of people like you that make false assumptions of a person's character just by the way  they look. 

You need to grow up and quit judging people until you get to know them.  There are a lot of us out there that you might find you really like.