I was thinking the other day about how bodymods can affect the social development in a society. I mean, for a common person. And I was thinking it while having sex with a beautiful german girl, a friend, with a tongue piercing.
She asked me if the whole bodymod issue was "accepted" t Mxico. I was afraid to answer that we, as a society, are very far from considering, nor even accepting, the tattos, piercings or other body works as "normal" -whatever that means.
I've seen work announcements in my country that says "not tattoos, please" for the aplicants. Makes me sick. How stupid can be that. And what a form of discrimination. So, the people with tattoos doesn't need to work?
I now this could seem kinda strange for many people living at Europe or the States, but it seems as an everyday reality for us at Mexico, and I think at the whole Latin America. Past year I got this red zapatista star tattoed on my forehand. All my friends were alarmed and told me "it was going to be very difficult for me to get a job". They don't even consider their advice offensive or discriminatory... when I asked them why, they gave me all kind of stupid reasons about "corporative image", "good company image", "how people can reject people with tattos", "can you imagine the reaction if you have a tattoed "whatever -designer, waitress, police man, driver..." working at your company?"
And I was thinking how, at this very moment of human history, when we are always thinking and struggling for human rights and civil rights and all kind of new forms of freedom, we just forget about this simple, minimum, destructive attitudes and forms of opression that still happens in our world.
Anyway, lets think in possitive: lets create job opportunities for the different. I truly would like to someday open some kind of mega corporation that will only contract different and alternative people, tattoed people, suicide girls and punk rockers... jajajaja.
Just jocking on this last part.
Be free.
She asked me if the whole bodymod issue was "accepted" t Mxico. I was afraid to answer that we, as a society, are very far from considering, nor even accepting, the tattos, piercings or other body works as "normal" -whatever that means.
I've seen work announcements in my country that says "not tattoos, please" for the aplicants. Makes me sick. How stupid can be that. And what a form of discrimination. So, the people with tattoos doesn't need to work?
I now this could seem kinda strange for many people living at Europe or the States, but it seems as an everyday reality for us at Mexico, and I think at the whole Latin America. Past year I got this red zapatista star tattoed on my forehand. All my friends were alarmed and told me "it was going to be very difficult for me to get a job". They don't even consider their advice offensive or discriminatory... when I asked them why, they gave me all kind of stupid reasons about "corporative image", "good company image", "how people can reject people with tattos", "can you imagine the reaction if you have a tattoed "whatever -designer, waitress, police man, driver..." working at your company?"
And I was thinking how, at this very moment of human history, when we are always thinking and struggling for human rights and civil rights and all kind of new forms of freedom, we just forget about this simple, minimum, destructive attitudes and forms of opression that still happens in our world.
Anyway, lets think in possitive: lets create job opportunities for the different. I truly would like to someday open some kind of mega corporation that will only contract different and alternative people, tattoed people, suicide girls and punk rockers... jajajaja.
Just jocking on this last part.
Be free.
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thenewmexican:
i'm down with the idea but i have still found myself left with the feeling that piercings on the face are unprofessional, that is in terms of someone who is helping me/working for my money. but unless that tattoo on a person's forehead said fuck the world and they wore their jacob's ladder in clear pants then... fuck it. good thread. i'm outs. 
nadine:
thank you!