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On the subject of, "If they judge me based on my tattoos/piercings/modifications they are hating on the real me!"
I'm with SWTXBelle and agree that this doesn't really make sense. Is your bodily appearance all of what it takes to make the "real you"? Why do you so identify so strongly with your tattoos? Even most people I know with these don't identify their entire self with them in that way (this is probably because most of my friends have tattoos that are easily hidden and those that don't already regret them in their MID-TWENTIES).
It strikes me that most people with extensive body modification would probably judge others on their appearance. For example, they probably wouldn't want to hang out with a fresh-faced blond Alabama sorority girl wearing pastel. They would assume that she's boring/"not individualistic"/conservative. Which is not necessarily true. How is her pastel and makeup wearing and blond hair-dying any more "the real her" than your tattoos are "the real you"? In college I never went blond but in many ways I dressed the stereotypical conservative southern sorority girl. My ideas were never such though. Now that I'm in grad school I dress slightly differently. It's not because "the real me" changed, but because my professional and social setting changed and my appearance changed appropriately in order for me to fit in, advance, and make friends. But the core of "breathesgelatin" has stayed the same throughout.
I am just really skeptical about people with body modifications getting on their high horse about judging people by their appearance. Everyone does it.
That said, I know that I would probably vote to cut someone based on a visible tattoo. I'm not afraid to say it. Most of the people I know with visible tattoos that they don't try to cover are really self-satisfied it about it, and really into this idea that they are part of some awesome "alternative" culture that other people "just don't understand." Personally I think that's lame and their personalities are lame. I wouldn't have much in common with them and wouldn't want them in my chapter.
I don't really have a problem with hidden tattoos. I still find them overwhelmingly lame, but I wouldn't cut someone because of that.
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