No.157175
I was working in psych in the 90s and that’s when tattoos exploded on the scene, in a huge way, people were getting them on their face even. I was working with women who had Borderline Personality Disorder and they LOVED tattoos because of the pain and self-mutilation aspect.
I started asking average people about why they got their tats, what they meant, and so on. Studies started cropping up, and they proposed what I thought about the topic. There’s a phrase, “wearing you heart on your sleeve” which can have good and bad meanings, but I’ll go with the bad, it means you’re a shallow person who projects shallow emotion. A person with serious feelings and passions can’t wear them on his sleeve, and typically restrains them to maintain dignity, so you cannot tell the passions he has.
The most interesting study I read indicated that people get the EXACT OPPOSITE tattoo from what they are feeling. People who are depressed and negative will get positive tats, like a bird or teddy bear. People who are scared will get “macho” tats like devils, skulls, etc. They are doing some shallow false advertising to project the opposite of who they really are. That’s because tattoos are driven by ANXIETY and that goes with self-mutilation behavior, pain reduces anxiety.
The other type of tat, the tribute tat, like a picture of Jesus, your dead kid, live kid, etc indicates the same thing. You feel little toward the person, god, etc and need to advertise you have great feeling, because you don’t.
I agree with all of that and have asked people about it. Usually their reasons are much like I explained, or an “I dunno” then, “Maybe I shouldn’t have…” because their decisions are shallow and nervous. Certainly not the worse qualities in the world, but as we know, tats have sigma, they mark your body, and are very expensive to remove. Also, if the person is sad, stuck, and confused in life it’s way better to unstick yourself through making meaningful relationships than getting a picture of a Devil Chicken on your chest.
I feel bad for all the “trump stamp” girls I’ve met. Almost universally, they explained they wanted the guys they had sex with to look at the design during doggy style and remember who they were. How helnously sad and pathetic is that! It literally makes my heart, literally, hurt thinking about it.
Some really nice looking girls told me that.
As many of you know, I’m an excellent artist, and I designed the “trump stamp” (not called it at the time) for this one girl I had a thing for. She had red hair and amazingly white skin, she looked like a little fox! She was concerned that no one would remember her. Of course she was tell that to a guy would would have nuked a country to give her a kiss, and that just goes to show you.
Anyway, you posted much the same thing as I just explained. Morita Therapy is from Japan and it focuses on anxiety. A main idea is that anxious people aren’t anxious enough, and so do a lot of halfassad things. They’re stuck in the precontemplative and contemplative state, but never take action. The tats are about that and not really addressing issues.
A company that wants to make a great product will make it. If a tasty beef blend is used in a companies burgers, everyone will know who eats one and costumers will act as word of mouth advertisers. A company that does not follow through and make a good product will advertise: “Tastes Great!” because it does not taste great. If a guy is tough, everyone will know it, he does not need a skull tat and will not think to get one.
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No.157183
>I feel bad for all the “trump stamp” girls I’ve met. Almost universally, they explained they wanted the guys they had sex with to look at the design during doggy style and remember who they were. How helnously sad and pathetic is that! It literally makes my heart, literally, hurt thinking about it.
Hey man, it works.
Alot of those guys remember their past fucks by bodily features.
>The other type of tat, the tribute tat, like a picture of Jesus, your dead kid, live kid, etc indicates the same thing. You feel little toward the person, god, etc and need to advertise you have great feeling, because you don’t.
Iconography is popular tattoo patterning
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No.157185
>>157183>Iconography is popular tattoo patterninghuman wallpaper response
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No.157186
what would you consider a genuinely good tattoo
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No.157187
>>157186The only good ‘tattoo’ is the callus on your hands from seizing the means. tattoos are consumerist vanity
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No.157191
>>157187are all consumerist vanities not worthy of any amount of appreciation?