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I don't have an association of tattoos with abuse, but I certainly do with crime. Tattoos are so common now that I have to consciously tell myself to ignore my
by ars 4y ago
I don't have an association of tattoos with abuse, but I certainly do with crime.
Tattoos are so common now that I have to consciously tell myself to ignore my association, but it's not something that will go away.
- klyrs 4y agoMy mom (boomer) still associates them with sailors in the Navy, because that's who had them when she was a kid.
- smackeyacky 4y agoThis might drop off with age. I'm in my early fifties and only ever saw tattoos on bikers, sailors, manual labourers and Bon Scott. I don't think criminality was ever the main association, although I always assumed the tattooed men knew criminals from watching TV news. Younger people would have never made those mental associations but like you, I do struggle to disassociate tattoos with lower class people. I often wonder what some of these young people are going to do as they get older, as the heavily tattooed amongst them just look like an indiscriminate mess of green and black bad decisions.