Oooh that's a tattoozy! What do you get when you mix a patriarchal institution and turn it on its head with some taste of modernity? So apparently this is the first Miss America pageant where tattoos are being shown on women's bodies and people are making a big deal of it.To read the comments underneath some of the pictures online of the pageant you'd think these girls murdered their children in public with fishhooks:"What happened to "purity" in women and a good positive role model for other young women? Why the tattoos and gestures that are not a positive symbol for other women?" -That was written as a comment online left by a WOMAN named Jennifer.Since when is getting tattoos not "pure"? Since when is having a tattoo not a positive message for people?As someone who personally has 8 tattoos below the belt, I find it ignorant and outdated to think that having tattoos is negative.In fact, I look at most tattoos as one the longest commitments most people make in their entire lives!Tattoos are most of my friends' longest relationships...but i question if that's because they can't run screaming off the bodies they are imprinted onto....
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