Tattoo Policy on the cruise?

[jahber]

While I wouldn't want to have to explain some tattoos to my littles (Well, honey, zombies are dead people, but they aren't really dead... ), seeing things that we may not approve of is a part of life. I find some people's clothing choices much more offensive and harder to avoid seeing than pretty much any tattoo.

Like anything, use your judgment. If you know your tattoo is deliberately offensive, it would be thoughtful of others to cover it up on a family cruise. Or save your shirt with the disgusting slogan and art work for a spring break party cruise (thank you very much!). And we parents will do our part in diverting attention away from whatever we don't want our kids to see without making anyone feel ashamed or uncomfortable about their body art. It's different for every person, so just be yourself.

Coincidentally, we are doing a tattoo-themed series at church. I can't believe how taboo the idea of tattoos still is!

 

[bumbershoot]

While I wouldn't want to have to explain some tattoos to my littles (Well, honey, zombies are dead people, but they aren't really dead... )...

FWIW, my son learned about zombies from a Disney show, Good Luck Charlie.

The kid can watch POTC movies (zombified people are in #4, which was after he saw the GLC episode) and most of Indiana Jones #1 (we don't watch the melting face part) without even a flinch, but Good Luck Charlie's zombie episode caused him nightmares so bad we had to stop watching the show!

Darn that Disney.

Coincidentally, we are doing a tattoo-themed series at church. I can't believe how taboo the idea of tattoos still is!

My mom went to a church for awhile that she called a biker church. And yet she still spouted Leviticus at me (note: I did NOT grow up with religion at all, she found it after I went off to college) when she found out about the ridiculous little flower on my ankle. I wonder if she would have relaxed about tattoos by now. Alas I'll never know!



ETA, I have been whispered about b/c of the silly little flower, while the friend I got it with (she has since covered hers up with a HUGE cherry blossom branch going up to her knee...went a little overboard in covering a half inch tattoo, LOL) and I were acting as bridesmaids for another friend. The bride had us on the side so our ankles showed, and we got comments and stares all afternoon/evening long because of them. So I can take the OP's post (from June) seriously, having been the recipient of such stares. And again, this is a half inch tattoo on my ankle. Of a flower.