Genuine question, why are you asking one internet commenter to answer this question for you when there are volumes of psychological and political theory written on the subject?

Anecdotes =/= data.

Well, a lot of women feel the way Burkett does. Should they be excluded because you don't’ agree?

Why do I have to change my title from “woman” to “cis woman” for your comfort? I find the very phrase “cis woman” offensive, as though we aren’t members of the right club and must have our experiences qualified. Caitlyn Jenner is a woman but I am a cis woman? Bullshit. You have just made Elinor Burkitt’s argument for…

Are you really arguing for censorship because you disagree with her? That’s exactly what she’s objecting to!

Your friendly neighborhood pedant here! Are millennials really a “growing” population? If we are 15-years-old at minimum, then no other millennials are being born; the club is closed. Really, we’re a shrinking population because people die all the time.

I came to comment about the fact I to some degree agree with the concept that trans women have not had those experiences but that those experiences are not 100% shared by all women anyway and that trans women have experiences cis women couldn’t even begin to comprehend. All in all experiences aren’t something that…

I’ve had artists tell me that what I want won’t work or they won’t do it where I want it. Rather than “put em on blast,” I considered their professional opinion and either went with it or didn’t. The end.

Um he didn’t do the ice cream tattoo on the face, that is Gucci Mane.

Thank you for saying what I wanted to say in a clearer, digestible way. I have a handful of tattoos, some highly visible, some more discrete. I was in for a touch up a few weeks ago (because I am old and have tattoos old enough to be faded and need touching up, which, for some reason, made me acutely aware of my own…

All I could think about is that she could have walked out of that shop and taken her business somewhere else. Which she did, fine. Not good though to point out other tattoos and go “Nah nah look how much more tacky this one is!” Doing that turned this into less about neck tattoos and more of a personal vendetta thing.

People don’t seem to get the give-and-take that comes with tattoo artists and clients. You can get exactly what you want...but it’s still their work. Their art, part of their repertoire! They have every right to refuse a job, just like as a photographer I have every right to refuse a job that I don’t see fit for me. I…

That’s what I was confused about; anyone I know that gets tattoos calls in ahead of time and needs to make an appointment. I’m also pretty sure that you need to give a brief overview of what the tattoo is and where you want it (so you can find out if they’re willing to do it!).

My artist flat out refuses to do neck and hand tattoos unless people are totally covered and he knows them personally. I’ve never once thought it was rude of him to do so, I think it’s responsible of him to bring up the same points that you did in your post and I respect him for that.

I hate to be Team Tattoo Artist, but just like you can decide where you want your tattoos, he can also decide what work he’ll stand behind and what he WON’T. Clearly you have artistic differences, as evident by your contempt of his other work. So why would you use him in the first place?

White girl outrage is always petty. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Exactly. No necks and hands is a super common rule among artists, and many of them do it for personal reasons (ie. regret, whatever) and for protecting the shop (it opens up a certain amount of liability if someone claims down the line they can’t get a job because of a tattoo you did).

I understand why this was an upsetting experience, but tattoo artists refuse jobs all the time for all sorts of reasons. Many have a no necks, no hands policy - it’s quite common. And, as you discovered, what’s off-limits to one artist is totally okay with another - you were able to get exactly what you wanted in the…

This episode of Law and Order: SVU just keeps getting better! It started out being about college rape epidemics and it will meander over to cyber crimes, and before you know it the conclusion will be about smuggling gibbons in basketballs.

She’s making it up as she goes along.