Still a sign of low-class trash.
I hate them. Hate them more since it’s a sign of how trashy our whole society has become. “Mainstream”...may I NEVER be mainstream if it means immoral libertinism.
Never mind how damn ugly they can be; they look dirty. Why would one mutilate and deface one’s God-given body?
Back in the day, one of my shipmates in Navy boot camp took advantage of our first liberty to have a massive tattoo made on his forearm of an eagle circling its claws around his boot camp company number. Can you imagine going through life like that?
As for fashion, circa 1900, makeup on women was mostly reserved for sex workers of the day. And men wore morning coats and hats outdoors. Times change, but at least makeup is mostly non-permanent.
I moved my family to Canada in the early seventies. On moving back to the US around 1980, I was shocked at the nonchalant use of filthy language by young women I encountered. Just shake your head and move on.
I have never had a problem with limited tattoos on men, but I did grow up in a Navy family so I was used to seeing men with tattoos on their forearms, deltoids, calves, and occasionally, a back or chest which I developed an opinion on early in life as a kid: If the tattoo stood out and set the person apart, I never thought it was a good thing.
If I saw a sailor on the beach or somewhere who removed his shirt and had a large tattoo covering a lot of skin area, I had an immediate negative response. It wasn’t a snobbish response, it was simply “Why would he need do that?”
And any woman I saw who had a visible tattoo was always a negative.
As a man, I think an attractive woman is one of the most amazing and beautiful things on the face of the earth, very few things compare. I am annoyed when I see something as beautiful as that with visible tattoos on arms, legs, chest or back. I find myself asking the same question I asked when I saw those on men as a kid: “Why would she need to do that?”
It seems like a form of...sacrilege or defacement, like drawing a mustache with a magic marker on a fine painting of a man.
But...I also believe in freedom of people to do as they wish. And my freedom to judge them for it.