Newsflash from the frontlines of the gender war: Apparently some of the ladies are getting tattoos!
Luckily for us, The Spearhead is on the case. In a recent post titled “Ruminations from Seat 22D,” Spearhead guest poster Lyn87 reported on an encounter with one of these ghastly creatures:
I recently took a long trip for work and spent a lot of hours in the air. One of my fellow passengers really stood out in my mind: a 20-something lass a few rows ahead of me. She is a natural-born beauty in that “launch a thousand ships” kind of way – slim, near-perfect symmetrical features, piercing blue eyes, and a shapely body. She is, simply, stunning. But there’s more to this story than a retired soldier admiring an exquisite example of female flesh young enough to be my daughter.
Well, we’re off to a really creepy start here.
It was actually her tattoo that first caught my attention.
Oh, that’s where we’re going. This is going to be one of those “women with tattoos are whores” kind of story.
She was wearing a low-slung top that revealed a HUGE eagle inked across her chest and extending down under the front of her shirt. And then I noticed her hair – what little there was of it. I’ve always kept my hair short, even by military standards, and her hair was shorter than mine.
Tattoos and a short haircut! Excuse me for a moment; I think I’m getting the vapors.
Few things de-feminize a woman more than buzzing off her hair, which is why it is considered to be shameful in many societies. She was wearing ratty, ripped jeans and far too much costume jewelry.
I can’t believe we let women leave the house in such attire.
And then I noticed the piercings.
Not the piercings!
As I stood six inches behind her for several minutes waiting to de-plane I counted seven, and that was just what was visible. I wondered what else she had done to herself. A tramp-stamp is a given, but who knows what other “body art” was hidden out of my view.
We can only imagine. Some Matisse prints? A mural in the style of Diego Rivera? A reproduction of Michelangelo’s David? One of the plates from Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party?
[M]en like me, the kind of man women say they want – responsible, courteous, masculine, respectable, upwardly mobile – [avoid] women like her even as long-term girlfriends, let alone wives.
I’m pretty sure that women like her — or like most women — are not much interested in men who are not only old enough to be their father but who also read The Spearhead.
[I]a person goes to great lengths to project a certain persona, especially in a way designed to attract attention, it says something about him/her. I asked myself what would cause the stunningly-beautiful young woman on my flight – at the height of her Sexual Market Value – to do that to herself? Women dress for us, so what does she intend for us to infer? I’m easy? I’m rebellious? I can drink you under the table?
Maybe: “If you’re the sort of misogynist creep who’s going to jump to weird conclusions about my character based on my tattoos, my piercings, and even on the length of my fucking hair, and then write about it at length on a site overflowing with similarly misogynist creeps, I’d rather not have anything to do with you?”
But Lyn87 seems unable to understand why anyone would want to send such a message:
I can think of no message that her chosen facade would convey that would be in her long-term interest. In a few years after her looks fade she is likely to be just another tatted-up skank wondering where the good men are.
Wherever these “good men” are, I’m pretty sure they aren’t reading or writing for The Spearhead.
It didn’t have to be this way. In a different social environment a woman like her would have learned to be (gasp!) feminine. She would have observed the older women in her surroundings and absorbed benevolent patriarchy in the air she grew up breathing.
Oh lord.
With her beauty she could have married above her economic station and lived a comfortable life. We can’t know if she would have been happy, but she almost certainly would have had stability, security and comfort.
Hey, who needs happiness when you’ve got patriarchy!
But she doesn’t live in that society; she lives in a “Slut Walk” society, thanks to feminism. When she chose the “Suicide Girl” look nobody stopped her.
Um, who exactly is supposed to stop her from dressing and looking how she likes?
Now she has mutilated herself with enough ink and metal trinkets to repel the kind of man most likely to give her the life she wants, because no matter what she does to the outside of her body, she will eventually want what women have always wanted on the inside – stability, security and comfort.
Hmm. Could it be that she’s not actually interested in the life a man could “give her,” and perhaps more interested in the sort of life she can, you know, give herself?
The fruits of feminism: what a waste.
Only if you’re a narcissistic misogynist who thinks the world revolves around his preferences.
Next up on The Spearhead: Airline peanuts — Tool of they Gynofascist Matriarchy?
What if the tattoo was practical? 13 wants a tattoo of a ruler…would that be okay?
don’t have any tattoos – couldn’t afford it when I was younger and now that I can afford it, I feel like I’m too old (yeah, I’m only 28, not that old!
I had that thought too, and remained pretty broke until I got a job in Japan. Where, as it turns out, you can’t really use the hot springs if you have tattoos. That is pretty much the only solid reason I think of to not get a tattoo. My sister, who is basically a paragon of femininity, although she’s not really trying to be and we can’t figure out where she picked up the habit, has at least one tattoo. She and her husband decided to be naughty one day and so they went out and got them.
But I like to look at the tattoo artists magazines. Those girls are so tough and pretty 🙂
My tat! It’s just a simple one but it’s my first. You can also see a bit of my feminist short hair.
http://imageshack.us/f/194/tattooyv.jpg/
I have the biggest phobia of needles/surgical implements so no tattoos for me… but this is seriously making me want one. I’m thinking this could be a great kind of aversion therapy – if you don’t get over *insert phobia* creepy MRAs will approve of you, and try to carry you off to be their wife!
“What if the tattoo was practical? 13 wants a tattoo of a ruler…would that be okay?”
What an awesome idea
“…Hey Maggie, I just realized that you’re a strange, sad, passive-aggressive fuck. Not to mention incoherent. What are you even on about?”
Ah, c’mon Davy, why would you say such mean things?
“I have the biggest phobia of needles/surgical implements so no tattoos for me… but this is seriously making me want one.”
When my best friend talked me into getting one I thought it was going to be horribly painful, but it really wasn’t that bad. If you’ve ever pricked your finger sewing something, that’s more or less what it feels like to get a tattoo. (At least in my experience.) Just don’t get something right over or to close to bone – those do hurt.
Well thanks 🙂 But it’s not the pain so much as the thought of it going into my skin, or something going into my bloodstream. Just the thought is making me wobble.
40 years ago a woman with a tatoo was incredibly rare. A woman with a dozen ear piercings, eyebrow, nose, lip, cheek, belly and other body piercings was practically, if not literally non-existant. Just shows how easily women are manipulated. No doubt the excuse for this will be, “40 years ago women were stifled and society didn’t allow women to express themselves.” And how easy it’s been to manipulate women to regurgitate that same message of oppression.
I have the biggest phobia of needles/surgical implements so no tattoos for me… but this is seriously making me want one. I’m thinking this could be a great kind of aversion therapy – if you don’t get over *insert phobia* creepy MRAs will approve of you, and try to carry you off to be their wife!
Ditto to all of this.
Sadly, even if I did get a tattoo, it’d probably be a small and relatively inconspicuous one, and nothing and no one will convince me to get rid of my long hair (although nothing has come closer to seriously tempting me than the time a creepy dude approached me to say that it was good that I wore it so long, since it showed that I was a properly submissive woman who kept it that way to please my man – blech), so I probably can’t totally escape the “women have to look traditional in ways that appeal to my penis!” jackasses. At least I do wear fairly ratty jeans whenever possible, so I suppose that’s good. :-p
Uhm. So? I don’t think this is a big deal. Does anyone else think this is a big deal?
Really? I thought it shows how cultures and sub-cultures change over time and develop different aesthetics.
NWO, I get the sneaking suspicion that you don’t like tattoos and piercings. What’s so wrong with them (besides personal taste)? Is it just women you don’t like tattoos and piercings on or men too? Do you realize that men get tattoos just as much as women for a lot of the same kinds of reasons?
NWO:
40 years ago was 1971, the punk scene emerged 3 years later and tattoos and piercings were a big part of that subculture.
40 years ago tattoos and piercings, although slowly emerging, were still rare amongst men and women.
The ladies back then were starting to break out of that restrictive mold you’d like us to go back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_Sioux
A. Learn your history.
B. Times have changed. Get over it and adapt.
To echo my earlier sentiment, if tattoos and piercings keep creepy, evil rapist wannabes like NWO at bay, I am encouraging my kids to get them asap.
Okay, I’ve decided. In order to confront my phobia, tomorrow I am going to go get a MRA-repellent slogan tattooed on my forehead and I suggest you all do the same. Any suggestions what the slogans should be?
“I have several cats” ?
400 years ago a man wearing flat-soled shoes was incredibly rare. A man with a dozen sneakers, loafers, and other non-heeled shoes was practically, if not literally non-existent. Just shows how easily men are manipulated. No doubt the excuse for this will be, “400 years ago fashion was different than it is now, and people continue to wear the things that they and the cultures/subcultures they belong to find appealing.” And how easy it’s been to manipulate men to regurgitate that same message of oppression! Stupid men, thinking they’re allowed not to wear high heels! Don’t they know that their purpose in life is to properly display their sexy legs to women twice their age? Hmph! HMPH, I SAY!
(Note for the satirically-challenged: I do not actually think men should be required to wear high heels, although I do think it’d be pretty spiffy if more of them did, because, hey, I like seeing a well-turned ankle on a man.)
Oh my god, yes. Women who do things do them because they’re manipulated, and manipulatable. Poor dears, what with the constant and absurd belief that they can do things.
Whereas men who do things do them because they are leaders and thinkers, by god! And whoever heard of a man with a piercing or a tattoo? Preposterous!
NWO, why is what anyone does to their own bodies any of your business? If we want to tattoo our skin or wear piercings, why is that any of your business? Women who wear them don’t give a damn what you think, nor are they likely to want to live in the kinds of restrictive gender roles you want to force them into. If you don’t like tattoos and piercings nobody is forcing you to date women who have them, even if they were prepared to date you.
@Quackers
“The ladies back then were starting to break out of that restrictive mold you’d like us to go back”
As I said, so easily manipulated. You regurgitated exactly what you were told to say like I said you would. Might as well move on to the, “gender box” arguement, as well as. “you don’t see women as human,” or perhaps the inevitible patriarchy.
It’s comical to watch. When do lip disks make a come back. Here, I’ll help it along. I’m a man and I say women shouldn’t be allowed to have lip disks. Now go run out and get one to show how independent and strong willed you are. How dare a man say anything about a woman, what she can and can’t do. Why I must not even see you as human.
NWO, do you realize that tattoos have been around for thousands of years? It may be a newer thing for Western women, but in other cultures, women have had them for centuries. So take your “women are easily manipulated” crap, stuff it, find a book or do a search, and LEARN something for once.
Hey, NWO, are tattoos and piercings OK for men?
I like how NWO neatly dodges my comment to focus on one of the least important parts of quackers’ so he can go HA! I TOLD YOU SO! YOU LADIEZZ R TEH DUM!
Holy crap I called the responses almost word for word. Wierd how everyone here is independent and thinks for themselves while saying exactly the same thing. The same thing the MSM says.
Um, who exactly is supposed to stop her from dressing and looking how she likes?
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Um, nobody. Not, um unless she wants to um, get married to a decent man before she, um turns like, um 40 and has wrinkles to go with her dermal graffiti that she, um thinks makes her an, um individual who um doesn’t care what people think of her um, until she gets older and finally does and then, um she’s got a lot to um, hide.
Um, EWME, who says all women um, want get um, married? Or um, like men?