A great deal of the popular hatred of the word moist is somewhat generational and is believed to be due to a personality quiz question from TheSpark.com, a popular humor site known to all middle and high schoolers in the late 90s/early 00s. “Which word is more gross? Moist or Used?” Some kids internalized the notion…

Only one?!

And not that it has anything to do with our debate, but an infinitely more meaningful reaction would have been to complain about the why of it all. Why no-necks is a common policy, why visible tattoos are still taboo in some careers, why some people hate tattoos on women especially and judge their decisions more…

Seems we must.

Holy crap, she WAS Victoria!

Please tell me this will end with two campus heroines joyously reuniting! And visiting each other frequently to tear through town demanding to see strangers’ dicks. Just let me believe!

Just pointing out that some of those men may have been uncomfortable or weirded out. Lots of women smile and laugh in response to this shit even though we’re deeply uncomfortable or angry or grossed out. It’s a nervous response when no other action is available fast enough. So ...

He didn’t tell her what to do with her body. He told her what he wouldn’t do for her body.

I would let Rihanna, Ian Somerholder, Christina Hendricks, Eddie Redmayne, and the guy who frequents my usual QFC all eat nothing but taco bell for a week and then shit on my best rug, no questions asked.

Yep. One look at the guy’s instagram and he’s tattooed big, bright, bold tattoos on plenty of women. This was strictly an issue of the placement, and of a style of tattoo he didn’t want to do. Not sexism.

Truth. I really want a finger tattoo, even knowing it would interfere with my current job (I could just put a big ring over it :D), but I wouldn’t be mad if my usual shop pulled the plug on that. It would be way more productive to discuss why visible tattoos affect people’s success, and why that’s stupid, and how that…

Wow, you just do not get this. There are plenty of tattoo artists who won’t turn work down because they are just starting out or because they need the work. A well-established tattoo artist who obviously favors doing big, colorful dragons and stuff has every right to turn down, say, a trendy infinity loop wrist tattoo…

Nope. Take a quick look at his instagram account and you’ll see that he’s put what you consider “extremely loud, easy-to-regret” tattoos on plenty of women.

1. Dan did not do the face tattoo. That is a picture of Gucci Mane, a celeb with a silly ice cream tattoo on his face. The tattoo to the left is the one Dan did, in homage to Gucci Mane’s silly-ass face tattoo. It is not on anyone’s face.

But it is policy, a very common one, and it gets waived—yes—by discretion of the artist. Yes, it’s shaky and yes it means that some people who are 100% in earnest don’t get taken seriously. Someone who is already covered in tattoos obviously isn’t going to be phased by a new one on their neck. Obviously Jane isn’t…

I also love how the post itself basically reads like some buzzfeed listicle for “Top 8 Customers Tattoo Artists Hate”

- customers who want trendy, overly precious script font tattoos that will look dated in 20 years
- customers who insist on poor placement
- customers who have had scratch-work done and think that it’s…

Good god, this is beautiful. Thank you. Just thank you.

Eh, a few people have brought that up and it’s kind of a non-comparison, though. A baker refusing to bake a wedding cake because it’s for a same-sex wedding is discrimination. The same baker refusing to decorate any cake with a specific message that offends his or her beliefs (no matter how narrow and stupid they are)…

I’m just going to add to the avalanche of other commenters on this one. This is highly common practice among tattoo artists for a number of good reasons. If you are refused a tattoo, you listen when you’re told why, you do some research and establish a trusting report with an artist who doesn’t so strictly adhere to…

Guys, sometimes people just break down and flee for their own reasons. The mother of a friend of mine—seemingly normal woman, normal family—disappeared around Christmas one year. There was a frantic man-hunt and she was found a day or two later hiding in her back yard shed. She received treatment and then the…