I'm sorry. You began your reply with "LOL". Am I supposed to take you seriously? Can you not distinguish between Playboy shots and Edward Weston nudes either? You really can't understand the context of purpose or motive as a part of an image?

Ah, yes, the pathology of vanity applies to both sexes.

Sexually objectifying and commodifying yourself the the point where you willfully enter a contest in which you prance around on stage and men judge the attractiveness of your body in a bikini and high heels = bad

The only thing more depressing than the whisper posts are the comments here. Capitalism has turned us all into comical narcissists.

Cornell and Dartmouth are still considered Ivies!? :) I would have gone for MIT Stanford and Cal Tech.

Our business is dying and we are desperate to spend our cash while we still have it.

Oysters? Philistine.

You've never been to Arun's then, which might be the best Thai food in the whole country.

What's with the grey-out of certain people? I'm new to this.

Actually the motivation of my comment ultimately stems from the political. It is a critique not just of tattoos or hipsters but of what postmodernism in general has done to the political left and to meaningful cultural and political resistance. Getting a tattoo is a purely superficial act, as is the embrace of irony…

And if you don't hesitate are you just confirming your preferences aren't really your own, you lack originality and individuality and you're just a trend follower, no matter where you are on the trend curve? "I had a chrome messenger bag with a douchey seat belt buckle like *way* before everyone else. And my think…

Tattoos are for people who cannot muster a sense of individuality in any way other than the superficial. Whatever makes hipsters inauthentic makes the highly overlapping tattoo set inauthentic. That's the point. There is nothing rebellious about it any more. No matter what tattoo you get, you're painting yourself as a…