What you view as grafitti many of us do not
I too have seen tat’s on seniors…but they where not your typical american slobs (overwieght etc.) so the tat’s look as good on them at 70 or 80 as it did when they got them
Whats your point…my tat’s are not their to honor or symbolize the holocaust…hence I do not tattoo numbers on my arms.
And to equate a modern tattoo to the holocuast tattoos is SICK!
I was relaying what I was taught back in the 50’s and 60’s. To be blunt, both Brothers and Sisters used the word “desecrate”. I was merely trying to remain charitable in my use of the word “grafitti”. Like everything else in HMC today, there are no moral absolutes - everything is relative and subject to the interpretation of the individual.
I have to question your observation of the number of people in their 70s and 80s who have tatoos. If you will accept that what I was taught as a child was the norm for America back in the 50’s and 60’s (which it most assuredly was), then the norm for persons getting tatoos back then was limited to military personnel (usually on leave and drunk) and bikers. Tatoo parlors were most assuredly not mainstream, nor were they on every corner. Indeed, back then, they were in the seedier parts of town. Few and far between are the number of people with tatoos in their 70s and 80s - unless, of course, one is a Maori. It simply wasn’t done back then. My sister, mother, aunts, and grandmothers would have died before getting a tatoo. I suspect if you check with your own relatives, you will find that this is true.
Every single tatoo I have seen on someone in their 70s or 80s is badly faded and since it is generally on their arm, I simply don’t see what obesity has to do with it. Like I said, that hula girl gotten on a sailor’s forearm in 1942 in Pearl Harbor may have looked spiffy then but by 2002, it was nothing but sad.
My comment about the holocaust taboos is not sick if one stops and thinks about it. The holocaust survivors were tatooed involuntarily and under great duress. I’ve seen both male and female survivors. They went where they were taken. You choose to do what you do. Tatoos are a very recent fad - unless, of course, you are Maori in which case I offer my most humble apologies.
I choose not to be a lemming or a slave to whatever fad Hollywood decides that we all should follow. I didn’t smoke pot back in the 70s; nor did I ever have long hair; nor did I protest the war; nor did I go to rock concerts, etc. Likewise, I choose not to desecrate the temple of the Holy Spirit. I simply cannot believe that what I was taught as a child is now OK because people have decided to follow Hollywood.
Thank God nose plugs and rings, eyebrow rings, etc. never really took off. The poet, Robert Burns, said, “Oh the gift to gie us; to see us as others see us!”
