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My aversion to tattoos comes from growing up out in hicksville, where the only people who had tattoos were the bikers. Not the noveau hick accounts with $35k bikes with matching accessories and payment plans, but real bikers; with sunburns, missing teeth, and BO just this side of a rendering truck. On the back of the hawg was the "old lady," (1 out of 2 ain't bad) cigarette hanging out of her mouth and a can of Bud at the ready. A real 'looker" in them days was a gal with 2 teeth pointing the same direction; don't have to be in the same jaw. Poor white trash wasn't just an affectation - it was a way of life. These were the heady days before helmet laws or regulations concerning inbreeding.

So that's the image that pops in my mind when I see a chick with a tattoo.

In short, tattoos have been co-opted by suburbanites just like Harleys and rap.