Poll: Does the mainstreaming of tattoos open up increasing opportunities for faith ink witness?

[Heart2Soul]

@Heart2Soul Though you came to terms with their ink, did the moment you first found out they had done it give you a bit surprise? :)

I think I answered this before...but yes it did.

 

[farouk]

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[farouk]

I think I answered this before...but yes it did.

Thanks, @Heart2Soul ! I reckon maybe the broader, sudden lesson it gave was that you then realized just how quickly they had grown up into adult women, right?

 

[farouk]

@Heart2Soul

As the OP quotes seem to bear out, it's become so mainstreamed now that the most conservative now do it.

As GodGrace said:

↑....almost every young girl I know has some sort of tatoo.
Even those very conservative types.

It's what even the most conservative do.

It's not now some kind of sign now that they are supposedly radical or avant-garde.

More likely, it shows that they truly see themselves from now onwards as adults.

This, at least, seems very clear, doesn't it?

 

[Heart2Soul]

@Heart2Soul

As the OP quotes seem to bear out, it's become so mainstreamed now that the most conservative now do it.

As GodGrace said:


It's what even the most conservative do.

It's not now some kind of sign now that they are supposedly radical or avant-garde.

More likely, it shows that they truly see themselves from now onwards as adults.

This, at least, seems very clear, doesn't it?

Mine are definitely adults with their own children...lol.

 

[farouk]

Mine are definitely adults with their own children...lol.

@Heart2Soul These are the OP quotes I was referring to:

Everyone and their Aunt Debbie in my town is now .. sporting full sleeves and tatts running up and down..

I am a nurse in a cardiac ICU. I am also pretty heavily tattooed. I am a well educated, well rounded nurse, and was raised with strong morals and manners. .. I am an extremely traditional person. I've always worn long sleeves .. I love having a professional persona as well as a unique one while I'm not working

source: allnurses dot com

It's something much more that's done because they are adult (not because they are somehow radical & anti-social, etc.)

Not: "Hey, I'm now anti-social!" but instead - even quietly - "I'm now an adult woman".

A lot of Christians realize this and feel confident to use it to express what they believe, Scripture quotes, etc.

 

[farouk]

@Mayflower Did you see the latest poll results? (Thanks for your poll vote, BTW...)

 

[farouk]

.....on many slides/pictures of tattoos!...

@Pathfinder7 I expect that these likely made clear that it's something that, though formerly a man thing overwhelmingly, it is just as much - or even more so - practised by women now, did they?

 

[farouk]

@Pathfinder7 The fact that it's manifestly no longer a man thing overwhelmingly (as it used to be) is probably another reason why the scope for faith based tattoo designs have increased greatly. (As the many slides/pictures of tattoos at the conference session likely demonstrated, if you recall?)