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“Women with tattoos are seen as being more promiscuous and given a lot more negative connotations,” Dowell said. The entertainment industry has a lot to do with tattoos being more mainstream, she believes. “The TV industry is good at normalizing things,” she said. But some tattooed women still feel like they are singled out in a way men aren’t. “I feel that tattooed women are subjected to unwanted or crass pickup lines or comments more than men,” Elyse Archer said. Archer estimates 70 percent of her body is covered in tattoos. “You have tattoos all over your body. When can I see the rest of them?” someone once said to Archer. Strangers even stroke her tattoos sometimes, she said. “Some people seem to think by having tattoos, women are giving you an open invitation to comment on their bodies or touch them, which is not the case,” Archer said. Archer’s tattoo story starts in Brooklyn, where she got her first tattoo when she was 18. “One of my co-workers at the time was apprenticing at B-52 Tattoo in Brooklyn,” she said. “My friend Amy and I went to get our first tattoos together. I got an outline of a triceratops, she got an outline of a crow.” The level and style of judgment depends on where you live, Archer said. Archer realized that when she moved from New York City to Tetonia, Idaho. “That’s when it really hit me that I kind of stood out,” she said. “The inappropriate comments turned into disapproving ones, such as ‘You would be so pretty if you didn’t have tattoos’ and ‘Why are you ruining your body?’
The transition was hard because of that, Archer said, but she surrounds herself with accepting, like-minded people to cope. “After discovering the roller derby team I found an amazing group of independent women I fit in with,” Archer said. Archer has all types of tattoos. Some are sentimental. Others are goofy but meaningful. “When I went to visit a friend that had moved to Germany, my friends and I got matching beer mug tattoos,” she said. She also has a Beavis tattoo that matches a friend’s Butthead tattoo. She has others inspired by artists. “I have a few tattoos of rats with umbrellas by street artist Banksy because they were so unusual and lovely to me,” she said. Her roller derby name is inspired by her tattoos. “One day I randomly decided to get a great white shark tattooed in my armpit, and I got the nickname Sharkpit from a chef I worked with,” she said. But not all her ink is a joke. “My father had one tattoo of his name in script on his right arm,” she said. “When he passed away I got his name tattooed in the same font on the same spot.” Her most recent tattoo is in memory of her friend Jennifer Nalley, who was shot and killed in July. “I got her roller derby number on my arm,” Archer said. Bottom line, tattoos to women are funny or feminine or sentimental, but always individual. They depict substance as well as style. Archer has one that’s perfect on her calf: the Dolly Parton lyric “It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.” Contact Emily Mieure at 732-7066 or courts@jhnewsandguide.com.
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