What do you think when you see someone with a tattoo, a non traditional piercing or another type of body modification? Does your perception of them change?
Do you think tramp?
Do you think criminal?
Many people do.
Yet like everyone else, modified people are more than stereotypes. In recent years tattooing has begun to gain a measure of acceptance in U.S and UK society but large, obvious tattoos, stretched piercings; and even more extreme modifications like branding, scarification and sub dermal implants are often represented by the media as indicators of sexual or criminal defiance.
These associations, perpetuated by newspapers and magazines helped cement tattooed people into the public consciousness as freakish, savage and deformed when in reality, these people are no different on the inside. The society we live in has shaped people's perception of 'the ideal' and left us blinded by superficiality and materialism.
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