August 12, 2014, - 6:39 pm
Cosmopolitan Mag Blames Schlussel for “Tramp Stamp = Slut”
By “Sensationalist Pundit” Debbie Schlussel
Cosmopolitan Magazine–yes, that Cosmo Mag–attacked me this month. The August 2014 issue of the rag, er . . . “mag,” says I’m to blame for the conventional (and accurate) wisdom that women with tattoos over their rear ends are sluts. Ya mean someone actually thinks that isn’t true?
Longtime readers know I’ve written several posts on tattoos over the years, especially about tattoos on women. Some of my posts are about the sleazy “Tramp Stamps” a/k/a the “Official Marks of Skankdom.” In case you didn’t know, they’re the tattoos slutty women get over their butt-holes to tell the world: look at me, I’m easy! As I noted, a woman who is willing to allow someone to stab her repeatedly with a sharp needle for permanent graphics on her body is even less discerning in letting other foreign objects go in and out.
Amid typical Cosmo fare, such as, “HOT SEX Tonight: 24 Moves to Unleash Your Inner Bad Girl” and “COSMO’S SEX BUCKET LIST,” Cosmo writer Sara Stewart asks in her article, “Stop Calling It a Tramp Stamp“:
Am I a slut because I have a tattoo over my butt?
Um, yes.
She continues:
So says popular opinion, which dictates that this area is off-limits for ink if you’re a nice girl. Got lower-back artwork? You, dear lady, are a woman of questionable virtue. Where did this reputation start? I blame you, Wedding Crashers, in which Vince Vaughn gave us the oft-quoted, “Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bull’s-eye.” I blame you, Sofia Coppola, for painting one on Emma Watson’s materialistic teen in The Bling Ring. I blame people who create Facebook pages like “The bigger the stamp, the bigger the tramp.” And I blame sensationalist pundits like Debbie Schlussel, who calls it code for asking men to “insert here.”
You mean it’s not? Um, why else does a female get a tattoo above her butt (and why don’t men generally get these)? Puh-leeze. Time for Cosmo and Sara to face facts. There’s only one reason to get “art” permanently affixed to your lower back: you want attention and something else focused there.
And, yes, you want the world’s men to know that the area is “open for business.”
Cosmo doth protest too much.
Signed,
“Sensationalist Pundit Debbie Schlussel”
(Thanks to reader Amber for the tip.)
“you want the world’s men to know that the area is “open for business.””
LOL! Right on, Debbie!
DS_ROCKS! on August 12, 2014 at 6:58 pm