Our Bodies Our Ink By Dwight Garner Summary

In “Our Bodies, Our Ink”, Dwight Garner discusses how tattoo are seen by society. He points out how tattoos were rare to be seen in someone but now nearly everyone one meet has a tattoo somewhere. He further points out, how “according to a 2012 Harris Poll, American women are most likely to be tattooed than men”. In fact, “some 23 percent of women have tattoos; 19 percent of men do”. But, in any event, tattoos haven’t been completely accepted by society, they are still criticized by society to this day, and in addition the majority of society still associates people with tattoos as a low-life person. First of all, tattoos haven’t completely been accepted by society. When a person gets a tattoo, it limits its opportunities in life because of their negative association. One can even see it in job opportunities. Many companies wouldn’t hire a person with tattoos. Since, they don’t hold a professional appearance that business owners want from their subordinates. It detracts from a professional appearance. As a result, when one sees a person with a tattoo, one focus more on the tattoo than on the person. Therefore, many people have trouble finding employment.

People who doesn’t like tattoos always say mean comment such like a tattoo destroy a person’s natural beauty instead of enhancing it. That they just get a tattoo to just get attention and to have an appearance of toughness. Even comment like what Garner noted in the article, of “how are those things going to look when you’re old and wrinkled”. That is why most people get tattoos in places where they can easily cover it with cloth. It why also why many people get them remove. Has Garner points out a cited survey that Ms. Mifflin made from the Archives of Dermatology, where its state “that 69 percent of tattoo removal requests come from women”. In short, tattoos are negatively stereotyped by