In his blog, he uses the below visual to show the true misogynist that he is. Karamazov explains that any man who "gushes" that your tattoos are sexy is only doing so because of cultural pressures. Inside, he's just congratulating himself on his luck that he stumbled upon a woman who's going to open her legs like it's her job.
It's clear from this article that Karamazov is a sad, sad boy with a lot of uninformed, ignorant opinions. It was also hysterical to read his verbosely blundering post in which he completely misused words in a failed attempt to sound more intelligent.
Karamazov sites one of the main reasons that "all men" hates tattoos is because it's where another man marked you.
"When you go to a parlor and hop in a chair for some greaseball to stick a needle in you and play kindergarten doodle on your skin, you’re lending him a level of familiarity over you. Does this fall under the category of what the mainstream media calls “jealous men calling normal things cheating?” Yes. Does that make us wrong? No. A man has marked you and you will always carry his handiwork. What if you wore a necklace that another man gave you in the presence of your boyfriend or husband?"
#1 - You are not always being tattooed by a man. Despite what your uniformed self may believe, there are plenty of female tattoo artists and they are damn talented. Take the badass Amanda Wachob, Margaret Moose, Kat Von D, and Michelle Myles to name a few.
#2 Who the fuck is playing kindergarten doodle? Do you even know what a good tattoo looks like? Do you know ANYTHING about art? As with every art, (the same way there are many chefs but not all of them make food you want to swallow) there are good and bad tattoo artists. But the good ones are so incredibly talented it is awing. They are also often painters, sculptors and the like.
#3 Getting a tattoo by a man is not any different than you getting your hair cut by a woman. Should women start saying things like "take off your haircut you dick, stop letting that bitch mark you with her handiwork?" No. Physical self-expression is an art, and those whose who execute it are the artists. Their gender is irrelevant.
#4 Tattoos are not a mark. They are not a man branding you. They are an an expression of your story. And any man who argues otherwise is lashing out from his own insecurities.
It's clear to me that this Karamazov knows NOTHING about tattoos. He dubs each and ever one of them all "trashy" after all. And while I concur that the Winnie the Pooh tattoos and the badly-done tribals aren't indicative of good taste, you clearly haven't seen beautiful tattoos. So I've shared some.
Perhaps the funniest part of the article (and the part where I realized this kid really is the dimmest bulb on the circuit) was where he said "TATTOOS WERE PRIMARILY A SYMBOL OF PROSTITUTES."(Gasp!)
"It’s long been a calling card of “women of the night.” It's always been traced to excessively erotic displays and the selling of one's body in Western Culture. People who deny this deny the reality around them. A woman with ink is an easy lay compared to her clean-skinned counterpart. They don’t call them tramp-stamps for nothing."
Alright dude, I'm going to give your tiny mind a little history lesson. Tattooing has a deep-rooted history in cultures around the world, from the Polynesians to the body art of Ancient Egypt. In the early 1890s, King George V got a tattoo of the Cross of Jerusalem while visiting the middle east, and royals across the world swiftly followed this exotic, decorative art.
Above: Maud Waggner, the first known female tattoo artist in the U.S circa 1911
Tattoos become popularized in Western Culture during the Victorian Era not by "big ass hoes of the night" but by those in high society. Women began commissioning beautiful tattoos, and even Winston Churchill's mother had a serpent on her wrist. It was seen as a feminist gesture, women taking control of their bodies in a society where they had little control elsewhere. Female tattoos remained popular throughout the 20s, but died off during The Great Depression and World War II. They regained popularity with the feminist movement of the 1970s, a time when women finally began standing up for contraception and abortion rights.
Elizabeth Weinzerl, 1961: A Doctor's wife who began getting tattooed at age 47.
One of the most evident parts of his piece is where he explains: "I know I didn’t disrespect women with tats until I dated one. She also turned out to be quite the skank."
Can I get a slow clap? Dude, really? A woman's fidelity and her tattoos have zero correlation. You don't get your first tattoo and suddenly get struck with Sharing Vagina Disease. You don't suddenly feel an impulse to traverse the country with your legs open, waving a sign for everyone and anyone to enter you. If this dude's girlfriend slept around, blaming it on her tattoos is just plain funny. That would be like me saying I never realized how much I disrespected men with goatees until I dated one and they cheated me, and I realized it was all because of the goatee.
The blog concludes with a caveat for women with or preparing to get tattoos:
"We will never respect you for having one. You will lower your social value by having one and limit your choice of potential suitors."
OH MY GOD WHERE IS A LASER?! I MUST REMOVE ALL MY TATTOOS IMMEDIATELY!!
Oh man oh man. I happen to really enjoy my tattoos. All 9 of them. I think they are a lovely self-expression of the people who have touched me in my life and the events that have shaped me.
And any man who thinks he has a right to judge or label you based on the way you physically express yourself is a sad sack of shit.
Here's the best part: Karamazov thinks women having tattoos will limit their choice of potential suitors and he's right. Why? Because we don't have to date people like you! Yes. It gives us a smaller, more selective pool of men of actual worth, so we can toss out the misogynists and the controlling men and leave them for the women who want a GPS in their asshole and a chaperone for a boyfriend.
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