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« Reply #45 on: March 23, 2006, 03:59:25 AM » |
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Tattoos are a sign of banality, not a sign of political correctness. The previous poster is off base.
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« Reply #46 on: March 23, 2006, 05:29:22 AM » |
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I have found this thread very interesting. ... It doesn't matter why people get tattoos, it's personal. While I agree that discretion plays a role in terms of professional appearance, and some institutions are more liberal than others, who the hell are you to slam the posters who choose to have a piece of body art?
They are adults, they have to live with their decisions. We all do the best we can in life. The horse is dead, get off it.
BTW I am a senior administrator at an R1 and recently got my body art at age 51.
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« Reply #47 on: March 23, 2006, 05:30:54 AM » |
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Dear Grad Student,
Don't fret too much. I managed to land a tenure track job at a decent school ... and I wore my nose ring to my interview. I also have a tat on my leg. No one said a damned thing about it ... they were impressed by my teaching performance, by my dissertation topic, and by the fact that I had "social skills."
In fact, no one has ever said anything negative to me at all. Once I had a student ask if it hurt to have my nose pierced. Once my dean commented that he had never noticed my tattoo before.
It just depends on what type of job you're looking for. Obviously, I don't teach at a Christian conservative school. But ... I do teach in the conservative midwest.
BTW, I am in my mid-30s and I have plenty of self-confidence. I wore the nose ring to the interview because I didn't want to hide my personality. I wanted to work with colleagues who would accept me for who I am -- not for what I look like.
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« Reply #48 on: March 25, 2006, 07:30:15 AM » |
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Gosh, I hope you grow out of your cynicism. It's a luxury of the very young and romantic.
On the otjer hand, tattoos aren't so easily shed when you get past the extended adolescence of grad school.
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« Reply #49 on: March 26, 2006, 03:42:25 PM » |
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Wow, some people on this thread need to get a life, and/or read more on the history of tattooing.
And these lines by "yes but"
"Having said that, every single person who has a tattoo in a visible place GETS a tattoo in a visible place, at least partly, in order to convey a certain "something" to the general public. ... After all, if you didn't want to make people take notice and have a certain impression, you wouldn't get a tattoo in a visible place."
are amazingly presumptuous (despite the gentle tone of the entire post).
To "yes but" and others who are thinking along the same lines: I put my tattoos in a somewhat visible place so that I could see them when I wanted to, not to send secret messages to you or anyone else. (I also didn't choose my research specialties, clothing, car, significant other, hair color, house color, piercings, friends, teaching specialties, and dietary preferences to impress you.)
(If it matters, I am 40-ish and I have had these tattoos a long long time, and am so happy that I got them.)
I went to 2 grad programs and have held 2 great jobs at SLACs since then and no one whose opinion mattered to me or my career has ever given a damn either way about the tattoos.
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« Reply #50 on: December 21, 2010, 12:10:51 PM » |
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« Reply #51 on: December 23, 2010, 11:15:01 AM » |
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There is no better indication of who thinks tattoos are important than to look at the posts and look at who is listed as a "guest" on the forum board. Elitist, I know, but hmmmmmmmmmmm......
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« Reply #52 on: December 23, 2010, 12:39:30 PM » |
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There is no better indication of who thinks tattoos are important than to look at the posts and look at who is listed as a "guest" on the forum board. Elitist, I know, but hmmmmmmmmmmm......
What point are you making? And on what basis are you making it? You noticed that most of the posters to this thread are designated "guest." And you probably noticed that their monikers appear in black rather than blue, and they lack post counts. Did you notice anything else unusual about the thread? The post just before yours hints at that difference. |
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« Reply #53 on: December 23, 2010, 04:20:09 PM » |
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This is one antique thread.
Well, in the four years since it was born, I've noticed more tattoos and more discrimination against people with tattoos in professions such as medicine, law, and academia. Tattoos even more now are seen as immature, low class, crude and unprofessional.
Others will no doubt disagree with me ("My friend with 32 nose tattoos has a tenure-track position at Elite Super U.") Good for your friend.
My hairdresser won't even hire people with tattoos. Fears the health costs if they've been infected by bad needles.
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« Reply #54 on: December 24, 2010, 11:18:37 AM » |
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My hairdresser won't even hire people with tattoos. Fears the health costs if they've been infected by bad needles.
Related, from the "San Francisco Math Quiz": 3. Sanjeev has 7 piercings. If the likelihood of getting cellulitis on any given day is 10% per piercing, what is the likelihood Sanjeev will need to renew his erythromycin prescription during the next week? |
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« Reply #55 on: February 02, 2011, 07:58:28 PM » |
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What about non-white academics with tattoos from their culture, often but not always discreetly concealed, in a heavily white, conservative university. Do you think there's any more leeway, or do the same stereotypes tend to apply just as much - or more? (I'm not asking what you believe is right, but what you think is really true).
And we're leaving out the whole being non-white factor in this equation, assume the alternative is a twin with no tattoos.
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