I Have Tattoos. Here's Why They're A Bad Idea.

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**Matt Walsh** (0:51)
Major news dropped this week. You no doubt noticed the ground trembling beneath your feet and felt the violent blast of hot wind blowing across the country as the news of this event slammed into the planet like an asteroid the size of a stadium, leaving a gaping crater in the earth's crust. The whole world was shaken. Everything changed. Nothing will ever be the same again. Congresswoman Nancy Mace got some tattoos. Now we'll put the images up on the screen for those who find the claim wildly implausible. There they are. It's proof the pictures that Nancy Mace took to show the world her new tattoos. There are a lot of them on both arms. There's two whole sleeves of tattoos. There are some flowers and some religious imagery and some random phrases and also the word justice. There is no justice in the world but now at least we have it on Nancy Mace's left bicep so that's something. Now I know about these tattoos not because I was seeking information about Nancy Mace's tattoos or Nancy Mace in general, but because multiple media outlets issued urgent reports on the subject. USA Today, The New York Post, Yahoo, Newsweek, The Hill, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, which evidently still exists, all put their best reporters on the Nancy Mace tattoo beat. There were so much conversation about the tattoos that Snopes published a fact check title, Does Nancy Mace Have Arm Tattoos? And there then follows an entire article to inform us that the answer is yes, she does have arm tattoos.
That's it. That's the fact check. Now, I have nothing further to say on the subject of Nancy Mace's tattoos in particular, but this breathtaking development did prompt another round of discussion and debate about tattoos in general. You know, everyone seems to have them now. If not everyone, then a lot of people do. A recent survey finds that 32% of Americans have a tattoo. In fact, more women than men are now sporting tattoos, and more than half of women between the ages of 18 and 49 have at least one tattoo. More than half. Now, that number drops off a little bit for women over 50, but Nancy Mace, who was almost 50, is determined to pad those stats. Now, back in the old days, you know, only bikers and prison inmates had tattoos, and they were all men. And now the average 23-year-old college graduate, who's a female, has the kinds of permanent skin markings that used to be exclusively the providence of large men with felony convictions. Now, some people consider this a bad thing, a sign of cultural decline. Others say that it's a good thing. You know, it's a sign that the culture is becoming more accepting of individual expression. And you may think that I am in no place to litigate this issue objectively. After all, I have a tattoo right here. It's the Cairo on my forearm that I got when I was in my early 20s. I have another tattoo across on the opposite shoulder that I also got in my early 20s. And in fact, I have a third tattoo. I have the words thug life printed across my stomach, but I don't like to talk about that one. So let's just call it two tattoos for the sake of argument. So will I now stand up alongside my fellow tatted Americans, my brothers and sisters of the ink, and defend the beauty and virtue of tattoos? Well, the answer is in fact, no, I won't. I actually agree mostly with the tattoo critics. I think this whole tattoo thing has gotten way out of hand. Everybody needs to stop with the tattoos. Okay, it's too much. It's too much. Now to be clear, I'm not saying that I regret my tattoos per se. They're both meaningful in the sense that they obviously denote my Christian faith. At least I didn't get like a tribal armband permanently branding myself as a guy who loved Three Days Grace in 2002 At least I didn't get a Chinese symbol that was popular for a while, that I was told means harmony or whatever, but really just means Kung Pao chicken with fried rice. At least I didn't get random words or designs. At least I didn't get a Disney character. So I'm not embarrassed by the tattoos.