Tattoos NSFW, according to new study

A new study out of Texas State University reports that people with tattoos and body piercings are unpopular at the office. Folks surveyed said that they would rather not work alongside people with lip rings and tramp stamps--that would be the tattoo above the lower back that many Hollywood starlets favor.

Even worse, the people with tattoos and body piercings didn't trust their own. A survey of more than 150 people revealed that even those adorned would think twice before buying business insurance from someone with tattoos and piercings. FYI: I have a tattoo and I welcome any tattooed freak to try and sell me some business insurance.

This discrimination reminds me of the daft women who won't vote for Hillary Clinton solely because she is a woman. Shouldn't the inked and pierced support their own? Reuters reports more here, including the fact that 30 years ago, only one percent of the population had a tattoo. In 2006, 24% of America had gotten inked.

But the real question is: Would you vote for someone tattooed for President?

photo credit: Billy Morrow Jackson

Comments

[Booky]

Not worried if Obama or Hillary have a tattoo. Neither of them want to give unborn blacks, whites, male or females the chance to come to full term, enter life, grow up and deal with the issue of whether or not to have a tattoo.

[Sam]

Once Hillary starts garnishing wages and such ... you probably won't have much spare tattoo money.

[g. mulleer]

i would think my fellow republicans would embrace tattoos as an easy way to print labels on people, such as "gay" and "non-christian" etc etc... the last thing we need is these people trying to blend in with the rest of us.

[JD]

"But the real question is: Would you vote for someone tattooed for President?"

Not unless he/she was running against Hillary.

[m.leatherwood]

this statement is for g.mulleer. who are you to say "the last thing we need is these people trying to blend in with the rest of us"?! I am also a republican, as well as my husband; and i hate to inform you of this but we're tattooed. just because someone chooses to place ink on their body does not mean that they are some twisted lifeform. I have tattoos because i believe it is my way of self expression. everyone is entitled to their own opinion; and i'm sorry that your's seems to be uninformed. As for the president with tattoos thing; as long as it's not hillary or obama; i don't care if their covered in the things.

[Quintin Moses]

i must say it is not fair to soley judge a individual on the ink they are covered in .....i am a upstanding guy with lots of tattoos and i hate when people look at me in a thuggish manner . i put my pants on one at a time like everyone else so don't be so quick to judge. and i would not mind the president having a tattoo.

[sean ambrose]

To judge some one on their body modifications is fundamentally racist and all who would look down upon the tattooed and pierced are exactly that.

[David L. Pedigo Jr.]

I agree with the statement that judge someone for having tattoos is no different then racism. Just because someone has tattoos doesn't mean they're any worse or better then anyone else. I'm in the U.S. military for 2 years now I know all of about 20 out of around 600 that don't have tattoos. When these people get out the millitary are people gonna look at the service they did for our country or just the fact that they have tattoos.