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Originally posted by vash
any stigmas associated with body art is going away
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Lots of stigmas emerge, go away, and then return, over a lifetime. Body art is a fashion, and fashions are fickle, especially at the fringe.
It used to be cool for men to have really long hair and women to not shave. It used to be cool to openly smoke pot and wear peace signs. It used to be cool to have collars the size of dinner plates. Today those things make you look ridiculous. Not a problem for bridge contractors, maybe not for bridge engineers, but maybe a problem when you want to be the bridge engineer's boss or establish your own bridge engineering firm. But it's not a major problem, because none of those things are permanent. Unlike visible tatoos.
Okay, maybe tatoos will somehow become a classic, timeless look that never goes "out". If I'm going to make a 30-year bet, I'd rather it be on something that will earn me a reward if I'm right, rather than something that will merely not cause me a loss.