Yeah, my partner is...tattooed, many many piercings, with a pretty sharp undercut and wild dyed hair, who wears jeans, boots and metal band tshirts with leather jackets.

I ask myself this question often, but in broader terms: why do beautiful women insist on hooking up with fugly dudes? And then I remember the patriarchy is still a thing lol 

It’s an accurate hunch. It’s been the standard since the early 70s, at least, when I noticed it as a Glam rock phenomenon. The guys had an offbeat, nontraditional look, yet most of them were involved with traditionally gorgeous models/actresses., not commensurately original-looking women. Look at Bebe Buell’s entire…

I can confirm similar guy friends who would choose “normal” “hot” girls which led me to wonder exactly what were they subverting by being visibly subversive?

Considering that it is more societally acceptable for a man to “transgress” than for a woman, i would be more curious about couples in media that reflect the woman as a baddie dating a man who is clean cut. He would be seen as submissive naturally. I cannot think of any such couples. 

“Famous Women are Expected to be Conventionally Attractive and Famous Men Dont Have to Be” would be a better headline. 

I love this Ashley! For a few years I was running pretty wild, tattoos aside. I’ll never forget dating a guy and realizing I was “tattoo boyfriend” to him. Killed the vibe for me, I didn’t want to be some guy’s walk on the wild side. It does seem a very heavily gendered concept/ men are wild / women are lured to it. I…

Eddie and Valerie, though not a Tattoo Boyfriend pairing it was the first time I remember a “Bad Boy/Good Girl” thing.

That’s true, but digital technology being what it is, tattoos can get removed in post. Pete Davidson’s getting his removed permanently, but it’s mostly to keep production costs down.

I think the apparent mismatch is just a product of women getting more flack for being tattooed than men do. The women would get tattoos if it wasn’t frowned upon, still.

Tommy Lee and Heather Locklear set the bar for this well before he started dating Pamela.

Oh dear lord.

To limit the damage to the “deaths of 200,000" is kind of outrageous. A civilization was destroyed. Infrastructure, wells, viaducts, museums, electrical systems. Iraq had a higher literacy rate than the US prior to the invasion. Generations have by now grown up familiar with extreme violence and traumatized by their…

First comment I just saw about his death on Arabic Twitter was ألف لعنة على روحك , a thousand curses on your soul, and I doubt it’ll get any better from there.

Thoughts and prayers?

This.

Sorry. I guess when you cut and paste a wiki article with internal links, Kinja puts it into an html blender when it’s published. Anyhow, the article above states that Foley starting working with sexual abuse survivors after becoming a massive Tori Amos fan in 1993. I love being pleasantly surprised by people. In that…

Bush’s reading level is definitely higher than trump’s. The guy can barely read, and was unable to name a single book he’s read. And being dumber than GWB is a low fucking bar.

Of course it’s opportunistic. These scumbags see everything (no matter how delusionally) as a way for more press/screen time. They wouldn’t care about Spears if they fell over her otherwise.

I went to Catholic school for all of grade school and high school and the way they argue it is that they usually make you sign a “Morality clause” when you sign your contract. The morality clause says you’ll follow the laws of the church. So the schools like to argue that it’s breach of contract more than anything.…