Conservatives And Tattoos…

I don't know if I've mentioned it (100 times) yet, but I just got back from Vegas.  And while I was there, I almost got tatted up (for the second time).  I had my favorite Psalm verse picked out to put on my shoulder blade, and to be honest, the only reason I didn't do it is because I knew that Mr. Daisy and I had reservations that evening to do a limo club crawl where we'd be dancing and socializing and the last thing I wanted to be doing was nursing a piece of plastic over a bloody tat for the night.  It was an open-backed dress, and so the night out won over the tat.  Priorities.

It got me thinking about an email I received a couple days before we left for our trip.  Mock and I did a segment on our radio show about how Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas just split up, how she has a tattoo of his name on her arm, and she's now covering his name up because of their looming divorce.  I suggested on the air that getting names as tattos may not be the best life decision.  But this particular emailer suggested that getting tattoos – period – isn't a good life decision.  It seems that many conservatives out there think that tattoos aren't classy, as in the case of the sender of the email.  She said she preferred "pearls and diamonds" over tats and that those conveyed class, whereas tattoos do not.  Tattoos are beneath those with class.

My response?  Basically, I told her that I believe class was something that didn't come from pearls or diamonds or tats.  It came from someone's character.  But that's just me.  And I love my daisy tattoo.  It represents a very significant time in my life, as I'm sure many tattoos represent for other people.  I also believe in the whole "live and let live" thing.  My tat isn't hurting anyone – in fact, it's on my right hip, so hardly anyone sees it, unless you happen to catch me in a bikini or something (which is a rare occurrence these days).  I did it 11 years ago – for me – and I still love it every time I look at it. 

On a related note….today, I saw this, which I'm sure a lot of Christian conservatives will happily shove in my face (even if I would/did choose a Bible verse for my second tat):