There’s even a number to support it: 4.
A new study presented in the Chicago Tribune states that anyone who has a combined amount of, say, 4 or more tattoos and piercings has got to be t-r-o-u-b-l-e.
The study emerged out of the University of Texas and surveyed approximately 1750 students from a combination of four colleges who all had something in common: they were scary, toothless deviants who wrought to bring the world to its knees by expressing themselves in a manner that involved permanent colors and metal bars through weird places.
I’m kidding about the toothless part.
Findings stated that the more tattooed and pierced the student was, the more likely they were to be involved in “deviant” behavior such as visiting a bar and mayyybe getting into some college-related trouble. It was noted that individuals who sported more … expression, shall we call it — were found to be more likely to participate in binge drinking, drug use, promiscuity, arrests and cheating on academic boards.
The results are being based upon a mere, mere number: 4%. 4% of students who had four tattoos and/or piercings or more were apt to engage in such behavior. You may as well just come out and say that a small amount of college students are trouble-makers. That’s really what it’s boiling down to, no?
I think it’s ridiculous to completely stereotype a person (because that’s precisely what this is) because of the color(s) on their skin or the placement of external hardware. At my most “freaky” point, I had three tattoos, multiple ear piercings including the “awful” industrial, an eyebrow piercing, a nose piercing and a bellybutton piercing. Frightening!
And although they’re all gone at this point — with the exception of the tattoos — I was never what you’d consider a “deviant.” Did I drive an uber-fast red sports car while fronting a band? Yes. Did I subsequently rack up a few major speeding tickets while doing so? Alright, yes. Did I up and travel whenever I wanted just to end up in some questionable (and sometimes quite distant) places at times? Indeed, I did. But you know what? It was all in the name of innocent fun. No one ever got hurt, there was no malice behind any of my adventures and I never associated with people who had “danger” branded on their foreheads — figuratively or literally.
Assuming that a person with various body art is a deviant is just as narrow-minded as saying that all people of the Asian decent are math wizards.
Narrow-minded and slanderous.
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