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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
In this you are right, as a cop you will spend most of your day being insulted continuesly, anything that some drunken crackhead can come up with to push your buttons, as such you had better be absoloutly confident in who you are on the inside and dudes with tats, driving a mustang, or a lifted pick up, wearing ed hardy t shirts or all kinds of other externally applied machismo will have their buttons pushed reletively easily, it equally applies to cops who work out to roid levels, these are all guys that are drawn to a certain mage of themselves who will likely react when that image is challenged.
Unless you have stood on a unit having some kid spit in your face while telling you your daughter is a whore and he will be stooping her as soon as he gets out you have no idea how fine a line of self esteem we are talking about here, I am not saying everyone with a tat is a moron or a ######, I am saying that my experiance of tats is they are chosen by men as they look macho, they project an image that the tat wearer wants to project, as such that person isn't going to react well under stress.
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Correlation doesn't equal causation. Just because you happen to work with troubled kids and just because some of those troubled kids also have tattoos does not mean everyone with tattoos has the same issues or motivations as your kids.
I know a pretty wide selection of people with tattoos, from family to friends to co-workers and I can honestly say, knowing all of those people well and having seen their art, none of them are "trying to look macho" and in fact, none are using their tattoos to try and "project an image". Some of them are young, some older and one (before he died a few years back) was my 70 year old Grandfather. I can promise you, peoples motivations for getting tattoos is very wide ranging...Granddad wasn't trying to be gangsta, I can assure you.
I mean sure, I have no doubt there are lots of people with "tats" that want to look tough, or macho, or whatever else. But the point you seem to be missing is that these people are not the majority or the norm. If you'd like to make broad stroke judgements about those with tattoos, I would strongly suggest getting to know a wider cross section of the tattoo'd population.