The abbreviated title won’t become popular, but that’s okay. It serves here to represent We All Do Whatever Makes Us Feel Good About Ourselves. Sometimes it costs us, as with these examples:
- Anytime women provide knowledge about their sexual willingness outside of marriage, they become disadvantaged to capture whatever they’re after except for sexual union.
- Egotism reflects out of low self-esteem. Brought on by difficulty making Self feel good about Self, egotists use other people to inflate their sense of worth.
- People memorize and use trivia to obstruct others from upstaging the trivia-master on broad or deeper matters. It helps change the subject or regain control when conversations make the trivia-master uncomfortable.
- Parents and teachers try to improve the self-esteem of children by indulgences that make the adults feel good about their selves. They mistake self-esteem for self-image, and do the wrong things.
- How uplifting are tattoos? After a few days the uplift goes away, as does one’s attention to a new picture hanging in the home. If done for fashion, fashions change, so what follows? No tattoos? If done to make a statement, time makes statements obsolete.
- How inadequate a man’s self-image, if he resorts to tattoos to perceive himself better off? How low, disrespectful, or perhaps self-hating is a woman’s self-esteem, if she tattoos her body?
It’s our nature: WADWMUFGAO. It often explains how we produce mistakes, regrets, or unintended consequences.
2 Comments
11/15/2009 at 4:46 pm
HEY HEY HEY Guy!
I beg your pardon Sir- but i hope your statement about tattoos is NOT an absolute. I have a music symbol on my left upper arm in dedication of my love for talent and love of music.
Now, I have seen some trashy and ghetto tattos on women: (BF’s names, gang-related, innapropirate places.. etc)
But a tattoo is NOT a signifier of self-hatred.
Thsi is yet another once of those generation/race divides I suppose….
But thats okay- still love the blog
Your Princesstial Highness Miss Dawn,
I inserted the word NOT in the first line per your now-removed correction.
No, it’s not absolute and I use the phrase ‘perhaps self-hating’ in the article.
I can buy the generation divide as making tattooing fashionable.
Guy
11/15/2009 at 5:27 pm
I agree that not all women that get tattoos hate themselves. For some, it’s a form of self-expression, like art on the body. Another example beside Dawn’s would be a girl who gets a little butterfly or heart in her ankle area. It’s a fashion statement.
It is a form of conforming in my opinion, like piercing our ears or wearing certain clothing styles. At the same time, it is considered by many to be “edgy” and you risk certain people looking down on you if you get one and that’s why it’s edgy because the tattooed person is sort of rebelling against “the establishment” to some extent.
On the other hand, there are the trashy tattoos that Dawn talked about then there are people who get one after another until their arms have “sleeves” of tattoos. I do believe many of those people don’t like themselves very much to do that to their bodies. I believe most are trying to please or be accepted by a certain element of people and some of those people are not so nice.
My skin is white, btw. I don’t have a tattoo and I don’t particularly care for the look.