Andres Martin's essay On Teenagers and Tattoos is interesting because it is makes accurate points on why teenagers feel the need to permanently mark their skin. He claims that some teenagers do it to "fit-in" others do it to remember a lost loved one, and sometimes a teenager will get a tattoo to have something stable in their lives when nothing else is. No matter what the reason though a teenager has to be careful on what they chose because this decision will be with them for the rest of their lives.
Personally I agree that teenagers get tattoos because they are the cool thing to do. However, I don't agree with the generalization that a tattoo makes a teenager a "thug" or bad, and unfortunately that is the case for most people. People usually look at tattoos as a bad thing and automatically associate them with gangs. While for a lot of teenagers a tattoo represents something important to them. What is wrong with a kid getting his dead fathers initials on his arm to serve as a memorial to him? Yet if this kid was to try and get a job, the employer might not hire him because of his tattoo. Not all tattoos are bad, sometimes you have to look past the stereotypes and think about the meaning behind the tattoo, and if that meaning is good, how can it bad? It's not, and if people could learn to look past all the stereotypes and generalzations that currently exist in today's society, we might all get along better...
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