I "borrowed" this photo from a site called "Dos and Don'ts". I thought it was about good manners. It's not. It's disturbing.This young woman has had piercings up and down her back, and then threaded a ribbon through them. Supposed to look like a corset? At the base of my skull there is low, throbbing sound that pulsates in my brain.....why?
Oh gosh. I can't even look at eyebrow piercings...
ReplyDeleteInexplicable "tribal-scarification ritual" that is self indulgent, unhealthy and unsightly and a childish cry of "look at me"
ReplyDeleteSorry James...no answer to your question
That makes my knees go funny (takes a lot to do that!!)
ReplyDeleteI wonder what they will all do when this fashion for tattoos and piercings finishes...long time to carry the scars of either!!
To shock you, of course! I look at body piercings and tatooes as a rebellious statement: It's my body and I'll mutilate it if I want. Bill's son seems to be going through this, but then he's just broke up with a long term girlfriend and I think it's a sort of life crisis thing - 29 is too young to be a middle aged crisis. Then again, a woman I worked with proudly lifted her shirt one day to show me her newly-pierced belly button; I think she was 39. Maybe it's a 'Hey look! I'm still young and cool!' thing. Don't worry too much about it, I can attest that Simon is still one of the kindest, gentlest young men I know. And when I see things in public that are disturbing or disgusting, I turn my back and thing about something pleasant.
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Oh James! You are such a delight. We must have had fads too in our day, but thankfully they didn't involve body mutilation.
ReplyDeleteI saw my granddaughter last weekend (college age) and she asked me if I liked her hair. She looked like Morticia and it had vague lavender streaks. I can put up with that.
I agree...its the shock factor. Every generation does it. The '60s was long hair on men (oh, shocking), 70's -well...well I can't think of anything but may have begun to usher in the punk-rock spiked hair that started the early 80s, mid-late 80's saw the "madonna" risque-sex-shock MTV effect, the 90's began this whole piercing nonsense....
ReplyDeleteSad thing is..each generation *seems* to have less room to actually shock people as society as a whole becomes more and more permissive in general,no? When everything is allowed, what can the teens rebel against? Will they rebel against permissiveness and become more restrictive than thier parents???
This is going to look amazing at age 70. So sexy!
ReplyDeleteIf you can look past all 'that' for just a minute you can see that this young lady has such a lovely figure. How sad! I can't help but think that she'll look back on that someday and regret it. But then again, I could just be getting old.
ReplyDeletethis just makes me shudder. sometimes, i can barely order my coffee at starbux for all of the piercings behind the counter. it just makes me ill.
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ReplyDeleteI had to look at the photo for a while to even work out exactly what she had done.....that's honestly one of the most hideous things I have ever seen, UGH! Seriously, why would you do this to yourself?
ReplyDeleteOn a happier note (and to take my mind off that photo!) hope all is well with you James....and those handsome little grandsons of yours :)
Yet again, I quote a line from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - "I weep for the future."
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ReplyDeleteBut still - OUCH.
Oh dear!! That is certainly an image that will be difficult to erase. I agree with JMW.
ReplyDeleteIt hurts just to look at it. A new low...
ReplyDeleteSelf-hatred that is a result of a society which no longer really cares for its young, its old, or its institutions. This nihilism makes sense to a generation who has been told implicitly and explicitly that they are simply marketing targets and commodities to be exploited.
ReplyDeleteGoodness forbid that women will ever conduct themselves as ladies again.
ReplyDeleteWe may expect this sort of thing from the more immature sex; that is our own.
Makes me wonder why she dislikes herself so much. Why else would a young girl do that to herself? Awful.
ReplyDeleteThat's disgusting. I'm so stunned that's all I can say. And I used to have my belly button pierced!
ReplyDeleteI work with a young woman who has some scarring and some small tattooing visible despite her otherwise very professional appearance and I wonder what the story is and whether I'll ever ask her. She's darling and smart and totally competent but there's a story there from her youth that seems incongruent with who she is now as an adult. I wonder if she has regrets or if she doesn't even think about it anymore.
ReplyDeleteOooh no.. terrible. I hate to see lip piercings and eyebrow piercings - I cannot concentrate on what the person is saying as I am so mesmerised by the metal! And not in a good way. x
ReplyDeleteThis is what they call fashion. Some of my lady office mates do have tattoos on different parts of their bodies. I do not know exactly why they enjoyed these kinds of markers on their bodies. I would rather look at my skin free of these graffiti. $%@$%!!!
ReplyDeleteIt boggles the mind.
ReplyDeleteEeewww!! You should have added a warning to that picture. I clicked on it and now I feel the soup I had for lunch coming up. Why oh why???
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh the way some people chose to "express" themselves is just beyond. I don't get it either
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This is just too awful. What was this girl thinking?
ReplyDeleteHow many cropped tee shirts do you think this unfortunately confused young girl owns? What happens when it gets too cold for her to display her body? Moreover, what happens when she's in her 60s or 70s and arthritis sets in? Maybe she will ask one of her grandchildren to help her lace up. SAD!
ReplyDeleteMore than a few have ended up in an ER with nasty allergies, infections & deep cysts, not to mention the on-going issues with keloid scarring. James I find it interesting that Tattoo Parlours here have re-invented themselves as Body Modification Salons!
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Oh my...I have never seen something like that before!
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is the "shock factor" -- I wouldn't know, I don't understand things like that (i.e., WHY do they feel the need to shock in the first place?) -- but to do it with self-mutilation....?
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