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.
Sorry (not sorry) that my art that means something personal to me is ruining your mental fapping session.
Also, Queequeg is awesome. I aspire to be a dickless Queequeg.
Oh man, this makes me so happy I already have tattoos, because if I didn’t, I’d be sorely tempted to spend a bit of my student loan reimbursement on some ink just so that I could repel creepers like Mortimer.
By the way, my awesome husband thinks my tattoos are sexy.
Epitome, large faces are absolutely “neotenous.” Babies have big heads.
*GASP*
Do you know what would be perfect?
Raz in a Godzilla kirigumi.
Because that’s pretty much what I do when I play that level.
I just changed my facebook photo to a large tattoo as the photo I was using (google ‘not your bitch’ and it is the first result) was getting me attention from middle aged men who clearly expected me to be a boner pleaser!
I expect the tattoo to have the opposite effect – not the same tattoo as on this profile, but as big and as colourful.
If I still get friend requests from complete strangers I will have to put a picture of a puggle (echidna baby) there instead!
The more I hear “dickless queequag” the more endearing it becomes, for some reason.
The best tattoo I ever saw was one this girl I knew had: it was the diagram for an analogue repeating timing circuit over her heart. Awesome.
For me, the books that make a girl attractive are usually things like calculus textbooks, popular science, and radical communism.
I once had a lump who I stupidly had boring and clumsy sex with say to me, “I don’t really like your tattoos.” And he was trying to get me to sleep with him again! It didn’t happen. 5 years later he’s still bitter about it. I only have three little ones that are easily hidden under normal clothing, but I fantasize about more and bigger ones. When I have a better job to pay for the good ink, I guess.
Queequeg was also the name of Scully’s Pomeranian that she had in the 3rd season of the X-Files (who got eaten by a mysterious lake monster GOD DAMN IT X-FILES I HATE YOU I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU KILLED A HELPLESS LITTLE DOG uh, sorry, still a little emotional over that).
Hey, Queequeg was no angel. He ate his previous owner.
Even better, this kind of Puggle:
(Obscure-as-all-fuck Australian plushie franchises from the ’80s, whoo!)
XD
Ellsar and CMH
Eww sorry that happened to you guys.
Shannon
“Hey, Queequeg was no angel. He ate his previous owner.”
I take back of what I said then.
SFHC
Aww!
“Geoff Sanborn called Queequeg the ‘romantic lead’ in a book without women, and from the moment he is introduced, he is instantly the best-loved character of the story for most readers. Seeing such a complete and capable man through Ishmael’s open and metaphysical gaze early on in the book, one cannot help but fall in love with, immediately trust, and want to know more about this Queequeg from Kokovoko, in his beaver hat, shaving with the head of his harpoon, and happily sharing his tomahawk pipe.”
Sounds like a very likeable character – I have no problem being compared to him.
I just remembered seeing these and I figured I should share:
http://kickassthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/watercolor-tattoo-9.jpg
http://www.cuded.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/56-Incredible-Watercolor-Tattoos-by-Klaim.jpg
They’re called Watercolor Tattoos.
@SFHC
Those are so cute, how are those not a global thing?!
I’ve never been a huge fan of tattoos, I’ve seen a few cool ones but most leave me cold. Not a huge fan of piercing either. Lurking anti-tattoo Manospherians should prepare to gasp at this M Night Shyamalan-like twist: no one cares, including myself.
I don’t comment on tattoos unless I see a cool one to compliment, or I internally go “meh” and never think about it ever again. If Mortimer is really seething endlessly over women getting tattoos he doesn’t like then I’m guessing the list of things he’s seething over is pretty long and mostly related to women.
I know AVfM has a rather narrowcast readership, but do these guys ever tire of the “sexy young women have sex with the wrong people or do things I think make them less sexy, wah, argh, curse them and eliminate suffrage for women”? Is it the same guys reading this crap year after year, or is there a reasonable amount of turnover? There’s got to be a limit of how many useless whinefests like this even the biggest misogynist asshole can take.
Women: still offending these assholes by merely existing and living their lives as they please without doing anything malicious to anyone on the manospheres besides being too sexy or not sexy enough and not having sex with them
ALSO COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC:
E.L. James is going to be further ripping off Twilight by re-writing her books from Christian Grey’s point of view.
http://i.imgur.com/MHuW96t.gif
I can only hope she goes all the way with it and cancels it due to some hissy fit over someone leaking the first few chapters.
(To clarify, I don’t think that those things are malicious. It’s the manosphere that thinks that women can do harm to men by looking a certain way and not having sex.)
Also, Paradoxical Intention, I have this futile hope that E.L. James will use the new series to reveal that she knows that Christian is an abusive rapist and probable murderer and that the first series was actually about a woman who was so manipulated by him that she was brainwashed into not recognizing his evil.
@Paradoxical
Omigod, yes.
I once met a woman with Photo 51 (Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction image of DNA) on the inside of her arm. That is the coolest tattoo I’ve ever seen, but that’s probably because I’m a biologist and Rosalind Franklin is seriously under appreciated.
Well that’s all pretty horrible. It’s awesome he sees freedom as something men give women, and not something women deserve by virtue of being equal humans.
As for tattoos, if I could ever justify the cost (and all the pain), I’d looooove a half sleeve on my arm. Those just look so incredibly cool.
I don’t have any tattoos though I have thought about it.
These are my tattoo people I think.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mdeziel/42-geeky-tattoos-9l92#.cdp7vEZ5Zx
GEEK PRIDE!