By tramp - 10/11/2013 05:51 - United States

Today, I met my brother's girlfriend. We got talking, and we got onto the subject of tattoos. I said how much I hated tramp stamps, and how they make girls look trashy. She said, "Like this?" and showed me hers. FML
I agree, your life sucks 42 327
You deserved it 19 650

Same thing different taste

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mbusey 20

It's not like you knew she had one and you were saying that to hurt her feelings. Unless you were, in which case you're a dick

You have nothing to apologize for. They only serve as a **** target, as far as I'm concerned.

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FFS. OP, it's not your damn business where a girl gets a tattoo. It wouldn't even be your damn business if she happened to be your girlfriend. She can get one wherever she wants. It's her body. Also what do you mean by "trashy"? Do you mean that she has a lot of sex? Because if she does, so what? That's her choice too. It's your opinion that you don't like tattoos. That's fine. (although it seems to just be the 'tramp stamp' that you have a problem with). But making other people feel bad for the choices they make about their body? Not okay. I say 'other people', but I doubt anybody would suggest that a tattoo makes a man look like a 'tramp'. Which is kind of a big part of the problem here.

cryssycakesx3 22
Emily062611 6

While I agree with the overall sentiment, I don't find the gender double standard applicable here. I doubt I'm the only person who finds the "naked lady on the bicep" look less than appealing. When every fml features one of these comments, it kinda diminishes the double standard as a real issue.

I didn't say that people don't have negative opinions about tattoos on men, just that they wouldn't call them words like "tramp", "****" or "*****" because of it and it probably wouldn't be associated with them being promiscuous (especially since promiscuity in straight men is generally seen as way more positive than it is with women)

rinoa_fml 10

A tramp stamp on a man makes that man look like a tramp, or at the very least a d-bag.

JMichael 25

Well you couldn't have known. Maybe she won't take it too seriously.

XxQuartersxX 14

Theyre really not trashy. I strongly believe its what you have tatted in that spot, rather than the spot itself.

Is there a she deserves it button? Haha

Tramp Stamps are called that for a reason, and have been so for longer than most who have them now have been alive. When I've been in the same situation, I do say "yep, like that! See ya!" and walk off.

Just so you know there are some of us, maybe not her, that got tattoos in those spots before they were coined that because it was/is a good spot. Don't judge.

yscpunkchick 14

I'm willing to bet that a good majority of the people voting YDI have a tramp stamp themselves.