Are tattooed women a threat to Men’s Rights? Last week, the editors of A Voice for Men decided to promote “compassion for men and boys,” as the site’s old motto had it, by publishing a long and exceedingly creepy jeremiad against young women who taint their “radiant” young skin with icky tattoos, thereby ruining things for the men of the world.
In a post titled “Tattoos, good judgement and women,” Doug Mortimer, a self-described Man Going His Own Way of long standing, reminisces at length about the good old days, when the dancers at his favorite “topless bar” were as free of tattoos as they were of tops.
I used to occasionally pay a visit to one of the many local topless bars – pardon me, gentleman’s clubs – so I could wallow in a state of beer-buzzed, middle-aged, semi-arousal.
Sorry to put that image in your head so early in the day. (Or, whenever you happen to be reading this.)
By the late 1990s, tattoos were all the rage. It was almost impossible to see a dancer without a tramp stamp or some other symbol or picture, meaningful or meaningless (to me if not to her). I simply could not fathom why a young woman, with her skin at its peak of radiance and health, would do anything to detract from it.
Readers with sensitive stomachs may want to skip the next bit here.
Flat-chested or full figure; statuesque or petite; blond, brunette, or redhead, healthy skin tone is a key component of neoteny and nubility.
I’m not sure I really needed to hear a dude who was already middle-aged two decades ago wax poetic about the “neoteny and nubility” of women young enough to be his granddaughters.
In 1998, Mortimer tells us, he grew so frustrated by the tattoos adorning the “female flesh” he was paying to ogle that he quit going to “gentlemen’s clubs” altogether.
Despite Mortimer’s bold and principled stand, the young women of America continued to get tattoos. Today, Mortimer reports with horror, one survey found that “25% of all men under 25 have at least one tattoo; for women in that age group, the number is 47%.”
He warns young men to think twice about getting into relationships with these terrible tattooed women.
After all, you’re going to be looking at them every day, possibly till death do you part. Do you really want to cuddle up long-term with a dickless Queequeg?
Mortimer goes on to suggest that the popularity of tattoos amongst young women suggests that maybe they really don’t deserve freedom after all.
Ultimately, you have to seriously question the judgment of a young woman who would make a permanent commitment to something as trivial as body art. Of course, good judgment is only rarely associated with young women, which is why young women are kept on a short leash in traditional societies. When young women are given freedom, they often fuck it up.
Mortimer doesn’t address this directly, but presumably he believes that young men handle their freedom far more wisely, despite considerable video evidence to the contrary.
Mortimer is quick to assure his readers that he is well aware that young women without tattoos can also be terrible freedom-abusers who should probably be kept on a “short leash” as well.
That doesn’t mean a tattoo-free woman can’t be fucked up, but one who is tattooed…well, no matter what the design, it might as well be a big red warning flag.
Well, no. But, given the disgust that Mortimer and many other denizens of the manosphere feel towards tattooed women, tattoos could perhaps be better described as magical talismans offering protection from a certain kind of creepy woman-hating shitbag.
In any case, it’s pretty hard to imagine Mortimer’s post convincing any self-respecting woman, young or old, to cancel an appointment at the local tattoo parlor; I suspect that, if anything, it could have an opposite effect.
Sometimes I wonder if any of these dudes ever actually say things like, “You know, I come for the misogyny, but I stay for the racism.”
… although I’m sure if I scroll back through a few posts, someone probably said exactly that.
I’m surprised any mra would get through a book as homoerotic as Moby-dick (ahem or read ANY book).
@Dave, can you not, with the Buffalo Bill jokes? That movie and its central trope are really transmisogynistic and lastingly harmful to trans women.
@LG you’re right. My main tatt is about as unsexy as all get-out (and yes, a bit trashy) but it hasn’t kept away any abusive, womanizing assholes – or nice guys, either.
(By nice guy, I mean genuinely nice guys not NiceGuy TM, though it doesn’t keep them away either, but tbh I’ve never had much problem with them).
^This
I’m afraid that nubile to MRAs probably translates into child porn.
Ugh. Good thing I finished breakfast before reading that.
Also, “Gentlemen’s Club” has got to be the most ironic thing you could possibly call a strip joint, given the nature of so much of the clientele.
Translation: Waaaaa, my boner haz a SAD!
Dude, there’s a very simple solution to that: Lock yourself in the bathroom with a bottle of Jergens and a roll of toilet paper, and just, you know, INVENT somebody. In your own widdle head. That way, you don’t have to deal with any ugly tattoos spoiling your fun.
Or any beautiful tattoos, either.
BTW, youth is not a prerequisite to beautiful, healthy skin, as any acne-prone teenager or acne-scarred 20-year-old could tell you. Proper dermatological care is. Just, you know, puttin’ that out there, as a 47-year-old with very nice, generally healthy skin that I look after verrrrry carefully. Because mine happens to be sensitive, and I HAVE to look after it to make sure it doesn’t get all scaly and rashy.
And damn, am I ever glad that my age renders me not “nubile” enough for the likes of YOU, old fart.
I’m quite neutral on tattoos. I’ve seen some that i thought were beautiful. But me–I freak if I get ball-point pen ink on my skin, so I guess tattoos are not for me! But seeing tattoos on a person doesn’t make me think anything in particular about that person. I know so many people with tattoos and they’re quite a variety, so I don’t know how people can generalize.
What a sad loser, lol!
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I will shave my head and cover my scalp in dick tattoos before I try to make myself attractive to ass-nuggets like this one.
Also, someone needs to sit this man down to watch Hard Candy. Maybe he’ll learn something.
@EJ (the other one)
WHAT IS WITH THESE SHITPILES ABUSING THE WORD “NEOTENY”?!
Neoteny is what makes fucking mammal babies look like babies. IT’S WHAT BABIES LOOK LIKE!
It’s not supposed to be fucking sexually attractive unless you want to fuck babies!!
In the world of good news, Caitlyn Jenner has graced the cover of Vanity Fair and has over 45k Twitter followers so far today. Good for her.
ej
That color will be awesome.
I have very short pale and gray hair. I use hair chalk in purple or blue around the front sometimes. Its super easy, temporary and makes my eyes look a bit brighter behind my glasses. Just for fun.
@zennurse
Thanks! I’ve been playing around with temporary dyes to figure out what I like. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m tried of having to redye it all the time, so I’m switching over to a permanent dye in a couple of weeks. I have a conference to go to next week, so I want to wait until after that, just in case I don’t like it (or if I screw it up).
Ugh, stupid blockquote….
Same here. Plus I’ve never been able to decide on something I loved so much that I wanted to have it more or less permanently inked into my (likely too sensitive anyway) skin, so I’m untattooed by default. But I do admire those who’ve had meaningful, original, beautifully done ones. There are lots of bad ones out there, but the good ones really make you rethink your prejudices…and I suspect that’s what this cranky old poop doesn’t want to do.
I love Manic Panic. I can change my hair color all the time.
Just remember, you can go from blue tones to red tones easily but coming back again takes a little effort.
I was really confused for a while, but then I realized I was imagining a “dickless Captain Queeg.” Not the same thing.
New charity idea! Donations to mail affordable journals to all MGTOWs. We will call it “Notebooks for Sad Boners.” Finally, MGTOWs will have a place to write about their sad, sad boners other than the goddamn internet for all to see.
Guys like that want the women they look at to be functionally featureless, indistinct platonic ideals of (their fucked-up idea of) woman. Whether or not you like tattoos as a whole or an individual tattoo specifically, it’s a personal feature that indicates in an undeniable way that its owner has an individual personality. That’s what he’s really upset over.
My wife discovered the same thing; if she’s carrying a weird theater prop, being overtly goofy, or otherwise displaying outward and undeniable markers of individual unique personality, the catcalls and harassment drops off markedly. Makes it harder for them to objectify her.
Karleena Max
Never underestimate the power of silence and a nice long neutral stare.
Whenever any dude (or woman, for that matter) makes an unsolicited negative comment on my appearance, I stare at them blankly until it gets really awkward. (As in I wait until it’s already awkward, then silently count to ten, thank you theatre training). This usually results in stammering and back-pedalling and subject changing. Maximum result with minimum confrontation.
And all the girls and women read this creep’s sad tale and stormed into the nearest tattoo parlor and yelled:
http://m.quickmeme.com/img/79/79af6b3bc5b23131ace1d835c402fa444ebd7cfc574c6b040665280337e74d7e.jpg
After reading this I immediately got a temporary tattoo. I wish I can show it, It’s a butterfly.
Viscaria
Or better yet donations will go to women and girls to get tattoos and other misandry products/trends.