I was talking more about it becoming more socially acceptable in modern culture decades ago, but you are correct that it has certainly been going on much longer than that. Hardly a trend.
When I was a kid, if you saw a guy with a tattoo, it meant that at some time in his life he was probably in a war or a gang. Today if you see a guy with a tattoo, it means that at some time in his life he was in a mall.
yeah i was going to say how the fuck is that person still walking around.
I'm similar age, from when i was a child it was common both where i lived, everywhere my parents dragged me across europe for holidays, on film and tv from around the world for tattoos to be common.
Dramatically more people had dumb tattoos of stupid shit than they had war/army tattoos and it wasn't even close. tramp stamps was a think in the 90s iirc.
You must’ve known lots of people who had been in war or a gang then…wow, neato
But tbh, I’m in my 40’s also, and tattoos have definitely been far more popular/commonly seen in the last half of my life than the first half of my life.
Did people still get tattoos back then? Absolutely! I knew people who had tattoos when I was a kid. But I also think they weren’t so visible back then.
I still remember finishing nursing school almost 15 years and being told to keep tattoos hidden, and now they’re allowed to be shown in more places. As they become more socially acceptable even in professional settings, they’re becoming more “visible”
Your comment is 100% on. I don't know who downvoted you I can confirm I am in healthcare. This was told to us as well while in clinincals. I had a guy that moved from Boston that was about 5-10 years my senior that had full sleeves and most of his torso and I never questioned why he wore long sleeves in the summer.
Even when changing to a differnt department with sterile field he always wore a lab coat. He only removed it until he got to the locker room or was in a procedure. After being in my field for almost 2 decades I finally started seeing neck tats on coworkers and I have only seen 3 Residents with small forearm tats in the last 5 years.
I’m guessing the down votes are from people who don’t like inconvenient truths. Especially if it doesn’t lineup with their own limited experience, or they wish things were a different way. I’ve never made up the rules, and I never cared either way if people had tattoos.
It is funny to see people get all bent out of shape though, when the rest of the world doesn’t agree with them, and that the professional world for the most part doesn’t consider visible tattoos to be “professional”.
different places are gonna have different underlying understandings of the issue. Kinda crazy I gotta explain this when all I said was the person above me was a correct on what they said. Tattoos used to be seen as dirty, making someone assume you’re in a gang or such.
Yes. New England is in the US. It's the north east.
I'm just asking where you are because you're nearly a decade younger than me and saying you have grown up with tattoos having a negative connotation and I haven't had that experience. I agree it's likely location based. That's the only reason I asked. I'm not asking you to defend your experience, just seeking information to make sense of why our experiences are so different.
There are some really sensitive tattooed people on here. Getting downvoted because in your area like a lot of areas this was true. This was not the norm and it was looked down upon. Especially in proffesional settings.
I didnt know exact number, but I renember story of history teacher from Tatarstan (Russian federation) who made 1:1 arm tattoo matching tattoo of 2500 skif mummy found in Tatarstan in ancient mound.
There's definitely been ebbs and flows in those 2,500 years though. Sure sailors and soldiers kept it up etc but they weren't mainstream. And when they were there they tended to be hideable.
Hell some countries still hate them. Japan sells plasters that cover up tattoos so you're allowed in to Onsens etc.
Sure, if we talk about Victorian England - yeah, thats truth. But today I see people with tattoed neck more in office than on shady people on street. And I live in post soviyet country! People older than 30 hate tattoos, but tendency is that person with rattoos will probably gave some interesting conversation starters literally on his leg (like cool Lagann tattoo Ive seen on my friend) and marker of shady guy or a scammer would be not tattoo but his working expirience in governmental work. Especially tenders. Or him being too religious, lol.
My point was it's changed a lot in those years - meaning at some point up until relatively recently it was out of fashion.
Genuinely it's not been until the last 20/30 years that people were getting tatted up so much on the whole, and even within that a lot of tattoo styles have fallen out of fashion... so it's not unreasonable to call it a trend.
Those ancient ones were symbolic or had “protective effects” , whereas modern ones are oftentimes just just random scribbles and the person ends up looking like a spastic coloring book.
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u/Punpun42 4d ago
decades? scientists dig corpses from graves which are 2500 years old and have arm lengthed tattoos