I have that
"tramp
doo doo-doo
doo diddle-doo-doo"
sample going round and round my head now.
The "tramp stamp" thing is quite interesting - it's only really been in the last 15 years that tattoos have become in any way "respectable". (I blame that "Modern Primitives" book)
Certainly in the 70s they were usually (in my admittedly sheltered experience) associated with crims, bohemians, people of dubious morals, outlaws etc. Or I guess people in the military. Or "savages". Or labourers and working class people.
Which as we all know, is all the same thing anyway. :slanted:
I guess it's still the case that "nice girls" don't have tattoos, but nobody wants to be a a nice girl, do they? That doesn't mean that anyone who has a tattoo is a raging whore of babylon but I think it's a bit naive to think that having a tattoo isn't culturally loaded.
Unfortunately women bear the brunt of the sort of value judgements cos we still live in a society where misogyny is rife.