Posted on 10/02/2010 12:16:04 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
"Show us your tattoo" contest draws critics
BY STEVE PARKER
Posted: Friday, October 1, 2010 11:36 am
The Modesto Bee is reporting that it's online "show us your tattoo" contest met with some criticism.
The contest -- which ended Thursday -- was aimed at attracting younger readers. Interactive media director Dan Day wrote:
It's that under-30 generation we're trying to reach with the contest, hoping they'll stop by our website to view a few tattoos and maybe even pick up a copy of the newspaper.
In a column explaining the contest, Day said he heard from critics:
"What kind of knuckleheads are running the paper these days?" read one caustic e-mail. "Can't you guys come up with anything to raise the level of consciousness up a little around here?"
Another reader wrote on our website, "I don't know why The Bee wants to glorify this despicable art form."
Day answers:
...I recognize that tattoos -- once the domain of bikers, carnival workers and other rough-and-tumble types -- have become much more common in society.
To men and women 30 and under, the stigma earlier generations associated with tattoos hasn't imprinted. Maybe that's why there are about 50 registered tattoo parlors in Stanislaus County and 80 or so registered artists.
By the way, you can see the winning tattoo, a woman's memorial tribute to her sister, at the Bee's website.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
This thread had a lot of potential that is just didn’t live up to.
No talent anywhere!
Creepy
They should call it, “Show Us How Stupid You Are”
How awful!
Can you imagine what this guy will look like when he’s 70 or 80? As his skin sags and dries up, he’ll look like a carnival freak!
Again, it’s a push towards the PRIMATIVE on steroids.
should read I am awesomely STUPID.
I don’t have a problem with “The Bee” having the contest. But I still believe the vast majority of people who get tattoos are short sighted if not stupid:
1. They don’t call them “tramp stamps” for nothing. Show me a girl with a tattoo on her lower back and I’ll show you a slut.
2. For women who get them on their breast, they rarely realize that someday that same tattoo is going to be stretched out and closer to their navel.
3. Young people getting their boyfriends or girlfriends name tattooed on themselves is a study in shortsightedness.
4. Getting them on the face or neck instantly says, “Low I.Q” (or gang member).
Perhaps this one has major SELF ESTEEM problems?
If and when this a$$clown makes it to 70 or 80, it will most likely be in a concrete cell where he has been serving his life sentence.
True ... if he survives.
You’ve got to be on drugs to do THAT to yourself.
It’s so disgusting.
“Can you imagine what this guy will look like when he’s 70 or 80? As his skin sags and dries up, he’ll look like a carnival freak!”
I think that guy is in prison for killing a police officer, so thankfully we won’t have to run into him on the street a few decades from now!
A face that just screams out, “Hire Me!”
LOL at the cat...
newspapers love ink, so...
I am surprise this wasn’t just for kids
obviously very normal. /s
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