“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.

Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.

There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.

If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.

  • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    10 days ago

    Try looking at the last paragraph of my post one more time. I’m not making any moral judgments on people who get tattoos, I’m saying that I don’t like tattoos, and that if you want to get one, fine. I just won’t think they’re cool or badass or anything like that. I will think that they’re stupid. Not that the person is stupid, but that the tattoos are stupid.

    Seriously? You think people here are stupid? Your comment came blatantly off as telling people who get tattoos are stupid. That tattoos are stupid, people who get them are stupid, and that nothing about them are “cool”, according to you. You don’t own anyone else. You don’t get to dictate or gate-keep what is ‘cool’ to someone else. You don’t get to tell someone else how they are allowed to feel about themselves and how they should use their own body.

    Yet you seem to be self-righteous enough to think that you do have that authority. You think you have the authority to tell others how they should feel or what they should do with their own bodies. And I have dozens of others in this comment chain hopefully (but clearly not) gotten it through your egotistical skull that you’re not the ruler over other people’s bodies.

    Clearly we’re all wrong but also right. We clearly misjudged that you have the internal ability to understand why your ‘opinion’ is so toxic, while also being right that you’re just an asshole of a person.

    • EtnaAtsume@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      42·
      10 days ago

      I think you’re just reading a lot of things in my words that simply aren’t there. I’m not positioning myself as some kind of arbiter of anything, I am stating my own singular opinion, not making a sweeping judgment or declaration.

      • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        35·
        10 days ago

        The words you used in your OP demonstrably suggest otherwise. If you’re having second thoughts about what you posted and the venomous backlash you’re getting, I suggest not only rethinking your own nihilistic world view, but also how you describe it to others.

        • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
          21·
          8 days ago

          The only one being venomous in this thread is you. Op shared an actually unpopular opinion, and you decided to read into it likely due to your own personal experiences.

          It’s not fair to blame op for things you’re making up in your head. Some people think tattoos are stupid, oh no! Get over it, their opinion shouldn’t matter to you anyway.