ladytalon1:

julierthanyou:

critink:

[[Skank Flank: The New Tramp Stamp]]

A few days ago, @forestine sent me {this article}. It’s another “tattoos are soo trendy” article from a major news source. Like we haven’t heard a thousand people tell us this before.

But here’s the part that really bothered her, and me:

… a popular placement for women’s tattoos has moved from the lower back to the rib area.

“We call it the ‘skank flank,’” [the tattoo artist we interviewed] said. “Every week or two, I see another girl with another rib piece, and you have to tell them that.”

Excuse me?

Wanting to get a discrete tattoo that you can easily cover up makes you a skank?

Since when are ribs considered a sexual body part?

Really, if nothing else this makes the fact that “tramp stamps” are body shaming that much more clear. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term body shaming, it’s a cultural phenomenon that essentially makes everything you do with your body wrong. You’re fat? Lazy and disgusting. You’re skinny? Eat a cheeseburger you look anorexic. You’re fit? You look like a man. And so on. It’s designed to make women (and increasingly men) feel bad about their body, no matter what they do or how they look.

Here is how the same douchebags would like us to view tattoos:

• Lower back tattoos: you’re a tramp
• Rib tattoos: you’re a skank
• Wrist tattoos: you’re a dumb skank
• Arm tattoos: you’re a whore
• Leg tattoos: you’re a whore
• Feet tattoos: you’re a whore
• Shoulder tattoos: you’re a whore

There is no bit exaggeration in this. Anyone who would call the girl above a skank for getting a Disney tattoo on her ribs is a fucking idiot.

All of this language is used to control women. To make us judge each other’s bodies, feel self-conscious about our own, or dictate what we can or can’t do (with tattoos, weight gain/loss, or anything else.)

Really, the best way to nip this in the bud is by calling out anyone who uses the language of “tramp stamps.” The logic is the same in both, and by having conversations with people on why this sort of language hurts women, we can start reclaiming our ability to tattoo whatever parts of our body we want.

society tries to cleverly disguise misogyny & fails, again.

Ugh.

I’ve always hated the term TRAMP STAMP.  Ass Antlers is so much more appropriate.

I always thought Ass Antlers was reserved for guys…like Alex O’Laughlin:

BEST DAY EVER!

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yea-im-horny:

honey-and-bear:

Hahahahah

I said something along the lines of this to my roommates when she started reading the series

- Honey

Truth

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I always end up watching Arrow at least twice — the first time around I am usually so distracted by the hotness that is Stephen Amell.

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slushpuppy282:

Yes. 

link from memebase.

My new Life’s Mission.

wifewatchingwifesharing:

A shirt every #hotwife should own milfhotwifeplayground 

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I’d sure try but I’m not sure all the guys would necessarily go for it…

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gayisthewaytobe:

drewpizz:

xblvck:

temptress-tears:

why is she big spoon tho

because why the fuck not. because girls like to be the big spoon too. because boys like to be held. because everyone likes to be held. because not every girl needs to be enveloped in some guy all the time, or anyone. because sometimes men want to be the little spoons and feel safe and woman want to do the protecting. because shut up.

^ you should marry me maybe

I love the comments here. It made my day

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