Please elaborate on how it’s offensive?
I’d love to know since I find it hard to believe that a fish would offend someone.
I know I’m stepping into it, but you deserve an honest answer.
Even though I used the word “offensive”, that’s really not a proper description. However, “offensive” seems to be the chosen word for anything people have a negative opinion of. So be it.
I’m not offended by a fish on this woman, nor am I by any of the visual content of the dozens of tattoos my 26 yo niece sports all over her body. Some are technically artistic, others just plain goofy, and a few which look homemade that I am pretty sure they are not. I like the young woman, treat her much better than her mother does. Nonetheless, I do not like tattoos, neither esthetically nor as a practical matter. IMO it was dumb to cover her body in the manner she did.
Now, and this is the key to this discussion; I don’t have to justify, to *anyone’s* satisfaction, my distaste for tattoos. Does not matter why I don’t like them. People can do what they want to their bodies in that regard. But they are stupid, intolerant and selfish if they think they have some sort of “right” to demand that I like it or that I be required by the PC thought police to hire someone that will have a negative impact on my clients or customers, or whomever I do business with. There is no such “right”. Many years ago I had very long hair, and at that time that meant a lot of jobs I was qualified for I could not get. My choice and their business to run as they wished.
But I also knew that long hair and clothing was a fashion statement, that fashion changes, and that if and when I wanted those jobs I could cut my hair and change my clothes. People usually get tattoos as fashion statements which is illogical given that fashion is temporary and tattoos are not. Nonetheless, as a free person they may certainly do so. However that imparts them no special rights as if they were born with something they had no choice about.
I like what I like, and I don’t like what I don’t like. If anyone finds that offensive, they are quite free to simply not associate with me.
Right of free association. That is indeed a fundamental right the left would like to eliminate entirely.