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WCDT: 2535-2539 (16-20 September, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ackblom12:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 16 Sep 2013, 15:09 ---be sure you never want to try to get an office job if you are going to do some of the crazier gauges or tattoos on the hands/neck/face.
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I don't have enough vitriol to respond to this at the moment, but seriously, this line (which is regularly an excuse to be an asshole, intentional or not) needs to fall in the ditch of dead and forgotten things.
pwhodges:
I think that (the message in the forum, not the view of body mods) is a pragmatic reminder of the prejudice, rather than a suggestion that it's appropriate.
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 16 Sep 2013, 16:16 ---I don't have enough vitriol to respond to this at the moment, but seriously, this line (which is regularly an excuse to be an asshole, intentional or not) needs to fall in the ditch of dead and forgotten things.
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Its a statement of reality. I don't have to like that tattoos and piercings are seen as a negative in business to admit its true.
I mean, hell, I hate the whole facial hair stuff that most jobs do, but I can be honest that they DO it. Facial hair though is temporary, and I can head to the bathroom at any time and shave off my beard (even though I look better with it than without it).
While I will never judge someone for their choice of tattoo/piercings/hairstyle/love of having a crazy beard, I'm well aware that society as a whole DOES, and taking precautions from keeping it from affecting me, and telling other people to be wary of the reactions that can prevent them from making a living in a field they would prefer is in no way something to be angry about.
ackblom12:
The sentiment was more aimed at that rather common line than you, to be honest. The issue is that it regularly comes in after someone is taking about how totally OK they are that other people like this thing that's really gross and ruins how someone looks, or how drunk decisions lead to sober results. Being true does not make it any less condescending in many cases.
Basically, do you really think anyone who gets visible mods is not aware of the very real societal side effects?
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 16 Sep 2013, 16:43 ---Basically, do you really think anyone who gets visible mods is not aware of the very real societal side effects?
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I live in a college town and end up seeing a lot of people in their late teens, very early 20s, and I sincerely doubt 90% of them know where they are going to be in 10 years. I don't like seeing them close doors for themselves before they even figure out their place in life. So do I think people are aware of the societal side effects? Yes, I do. Do I think people are always aware of where they want their life to go, especially when they are just becoming an adult? No, not really. Do I think people in early college have an understanding of living in the "real world"? Some do, not all of them.
Don't take it personally. Its not directed at any single person. Its a generic piece of advice. One that I've known several people who could have had it stressed to them when they were younger. Hell, my brother has a scar on his face from having a tattoo removed that he had gotten in his early 20s when he was pretty much a bum with a guitar and no direction. Now, he has two different degrees in chemistry and works in a lab doing research and if I asked him when he got the tattoo if he saw himself going into this now, he probably wouldn't have known. (He still has a really nice chest piece though).
Is it condescending? No more than any other advice.
(Hell, I'm married, have two kids, one nearly a teenager, and I still can't tell you where I think I'm going to be in 10 years.)
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