How to Break Tattoo Taboos with Margaret Cho

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Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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How do gender, race and class color our tattoo perceptions? Comedy icon Margaret Cho breaks down the body politics of being a heavily inked Korean-American woman. Plus! Cristen and Caroline discover the original "tramp stamp," a stick-n-poke renaissance, and the origins of the ladylike tattoo taboo.

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1:04.0	You get so many comments when you get certain tattoos like my stomach one. Like gets a lot of comments because they think it's unladylike.
1:11.0	Especially like older women in the summertime. So like mining my business and they're like, you're never gonna get a husband with those tattoos.
1:20.0	Who said I wanted that? Yeah or just like, why do people care so much? Like we're all gonna die anyway.
1:27.0	The last thing I'm worried about is finding a husband. It's 2020.
1:41.0	Like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady.
1:48.0	Hey y'all and welcome to in lady like where we find out what happens when women break the rules and get tattoos instead of husbands.
1:56.0	I'm Caroline. I'm Kristen and that was a woman named Olivia talking to unladylike producer Sam Lee.
2:03.0	Sam stopped by a tattoo pop up in an athlete's store called Outdoor Voices.
2:08.0	Caroline, I personally love that we live in a world now that you know is arguably on the verge of self destruction.
2:14.0	But at least you can one stop shop for tattoos and sports bras with no judgment.
2:20.0	Kristen women really can't have it all. Yes we can.
2:24.0	But seriously like it is the tattoo friendliest time in American history. I mean around one in five adults in the US have at least one.
2:33.0	And almost half of millennials have them myself included. You know not to brag but maybe just to brag a little bit.
2:40.0	Well Kristen I don't have any tattoos yet. But thanks to Instagram like I've actually had my eye on a few lady tattoo artists.
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