Quote from: LordKAT on April 27, 2010, 06:35:57 AM
I do not need to get over myself. i have aright to an opinion same as you ;even if my opinion is different. Perhaps you need to get over your selves.
I have no piercings and find them gross. Deal with it.
No.
When you attack body modification choices as gross and indecent, you are attacking the people who make those decisions, stoking the flames of intolerance that make life that little bit more difficult for people who happen to think it looks pretty to have gauged ears, tattooed arms or a pierced eyebrow. You have no logical, objective reason to oppose such practices and such people; piercing and tattooing, when executed by competent professionals, are perfectly safe and hygenic. If you happen not to find someone's mods aesthetically pleasing, that's fine - I find the clothing worn by many people horrendously ugly, but I frankly don't care, don't think it matters very much, and I certainly don't give them any trouble for it.
You know what makes anti-piercing people on Susan's particularly hypocritical and disgusting? We're a trans forum. If you're so damned opposed to people doing "gross" body modifications, are you opposed to electrolysis, top surgery, facial feminization surgery, Adam's apple shaving, SRS? How about breast implants?
And if you think that those are special exceptions because they help people to express their identities and feel more like themselves, has it occurred to you that piercings, tattoos and other body mods can often be the same way? Sure, some people get minor body mods, just as a bit of decoration. No big deal. For others, though, it really is a part of who they are. Attacking their mods is attacking something of meaning to them; they transform their bodies as a way of exploring and expressing themselves and owning themselves and the bodies they live in.
If you really think
as a trans person that there's something wrong with that, I don't know what to say to you.