1. The woman in the video does not say anything about her politics or purport to explain herself in terms of politics.This is what leftism does to you. It destroys the mind, body, and soul. pic.twitter.com/rBHZzp1EeR
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2024
2. It's a tragic case, and you shouldn't be cheaply triumphing or laughing.
3. If you think the old version of this woman shows a natural beauty she once possessed, then you don't know much about beauty filters and makeup.
4. She was trying to be pretty in the old days, and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her. The new look, however, expresses that torment. So she remains, now permanently, in thrall to society’s expectations.
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I bet she was sexually assaulted and that had a lot more to do with her desire to change her appearance.
People are nuts, film at 11. Do childhood obesity and diabetes in Trump county next.
Tats on women turn my stomach.
The thing about appearances being deceiving is that they're usually not. If you saw a before and after of a young man who went from normal and decent looking to face-tatted freak, would anyone be thinking he made a bunch of good life decisions in between?
And even if she doesn't specify her politics, transformation videos just like this specifying that it's after they "escaped their conservative small town" or whatever are practically a genre.
Leftism? Hmmm?
What about the role of 24/7/365 social media in causing pathological anxiety among many women, the dissolution of shared culture standards and unity (be it churches, schools, or even network TV shows), and the routine tendency of young people to rebel and explore (i.e., jump first and think later)?
Paraphrasing The Princess Bride, "Leftism? I don't think that word means what you think it means."
Sad to see this….
Mike Tyson’s facial tattoo is the only one that is attractive, imho. It fits his face and his persona well.
Deep pity for whatever caused her to do that to herself.
Here, I disagree with Ann. The culture of the Left prompted and encouraged this young woman to destroy and mutilate her body. She’s celebrated on the Left.
It’s faddish and cool to do. Celebrities do it.
I’d bet big money she has no religious beliefs or training.
Mental illness is not effectively treated these days. Many on the Left are mentally ill.
If there is no right or wrong, then this is okay.
We are told today not to judge. I judge her as deeply mentally ill and morally wrong to have done this to herself.
She’s an adult, but why didn’t her parents stop her? How did they raise her?
Don’t forget that savages invented tattooing,
People with tats are members of the tat tribe. Tribalism is the Left’s thing.
Today’s America is two movies on one screen. We agree on little.
i'm not sure that you (Professor Althouse) are attached to reality anymore..
you are NOT making sense
She doesn't have any swastika or Confederate Flag tattoos on her face. This leads me to be believe that her politics are on the left.....I don't think that facial tattoos are the cure for whatever's bothering you, but I bet they soon become more bothersome than whatever's bothering you. If you're worried about diabetes, a stab wound takes your mind off of it.
She was trying to be pretty in the old days, and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her. The new look, however, expresses that torment. So she remains, now permanently, in thrall to society’s expectations.
Seems like as much of an appropriation of the video as the notion that it is a symptom of leftism to me - she said nothing about societal torments or the like.
Enigma - Leftism? Hmmm?
What about the role of 24/7/365 social media in causing pathological anxiety among many women, the dissolution of shared culture standards and unity (be it churches, schools, or even network TV shows)
all of these things were brought about by lefties, yes?
Is it Ann’s contention in #2 that this woman used filters to significantly alter her appearance in the normal looking photo? Looking at the woman's feed and her graduation photos that pic may have altered her eyes but otherwise looks natural…
Does Ann know of this woman’s politics or is she spitballing too? Libsof taking the high percentage play. Not sick…
You're right that she doesn't talk politics and it was wrong for Libs of TikTok to make it a political post, but you know she is a leftist and her leftist politics come from the same place as her drive to self-mutilate.
The real culprit is the de-emphasizing of mental health that we have been enmeshed in since Reagan closed the psychiatric hospitals. Mental illness has grown like a cancer ever since, undermining all aspects of society, and it won't stop until we stop pretending it's all about being true to yourself.
We need to find the courage to speak truth to crazy and get these people the real help they need.
Pursuit of cash flow from OnlyFans may have been a bigger culprit…
I'll preface my comment by saying that I don't have and don't intend at this time to get a Tiktok account, so I can't see comments. (Or is that on X that I can't see comments? Anyway, I'm not clicking through to see whether the comments on this video were triumphalist or cruel; I'm just going on what Libs herself presents.)
1. She doesn't say anything about politics. But that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't hold the opinion that societal leftism is a significant contributor to many transformations like these. Prior to the rise of progressivism, especially among young people, no one in the West but a handful of aboriginal people (and gang members) got face tattoos. And prior to progressivism, freedom of expression didn't tend to take such permanent forms - people dressed and did their hair and did or didn't wear makeup in ways that made them feel rebellious or attractive or whatever else, but they didn't pierce their lips or noses or eyebrows or tattoo themselves where they couldn't cover the tat. Causation not established, but there sure as heck is correlation.
2. What about the caption triumphs or laughs? It sounds tragic to me.
3. Nowhere does the caption mention "natural beauty." Or maybe you were trying to forestall such comments from commenters here? If so, fair enough.
4. Who knows what she was trying to be before? She doesn't tell us what she was thinking then (or if she does, I missed it - I'm trying not to wake anyone up in my house so I have the volume low). But we can look at her facial expressions, before and after. Maybe she was faking that quite naturally happy-looking smile, all the way into her eyes - I know that's possible. But just as possibly, she may be faking the sour disillusionment she's projecting in her present form. It's cool to be sad and angry in some circles.
Should Libs have called out this particular video? I dunno; not being on X, I only encounter her when she's posted somewhere else, such as here. It just seems to me that the objections raised in the post project at least as much inference as Libs' caption.
Howard said People are nuts, film at 11. Do childhood obesity and diabetes in Trump county next.
The CDC reports the following obesity prevalence percentages among different youth demographics: Hispanic youth – 22.4% Non-Hispanic black youth – 20.2% Non-Hispanic white youth – 14.1%.
The rates of diagnosed diabetes in adults by race/ethnic background are:
13.6% of American Indians/Alaskan Native adults.
12.1% of non-Hispanic Black adults.
11.7% of Hispanic adults.
9.1% of Asian American adults.
6.9% of non-Hispanic White adults.
By applying logic, Howard has just acknowledged that Trump is way ahead in the Hispanic and black communities!
1. The woman in the video does not say anything about her politics or purport to explain herself in terms of politics.
Oh please Ann you are better than that. There are two ways to interpret "what leftism does to you" and the first one is the personal politics of an individual. The second is the bubble culture created and allowed to maintain critical mass because of political tides. If this young woman were a evangelical snake handler from the hollers of East Tennessee andher video was her dancing with two venomous snakes you would have no reason to question that "conservatism" made her like that.
2. It's a tragic case, and you shouldn't be cheaply triumphing or laughing.
Yes, we should. Mockery is sometimes the best disinfectant. I can believe that there are deep structural and political forces that perpetuate racism AND still believe that the last person that needs to be the face or the voice of the movement is Reverend Al "Freddy's Fashion Mart" Sharpton. Sharpton should be openly mocked on that topic and anyone that supports him should too.
3. If you think the old version of this woman shows a natural beauty this woman once possessed, then you don't know much about beauty filters and makeup.
I think the old version of this woman shows a person with the presumption of stable mental health.
4. She was trying to be pretty in the old days, and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her. The new look, however, expresses that torment. So she remains, now permanently, in thrall to society’s expectations.
This is the first comment you made I agree with.
It’s the whites of her eyes that bother me. Did she have them injected with dye or are those really large contact lenses?
There is such an enormous hunger these days among the under-35 set to be seen. They've grown up with no deep bonds to family or church or local community. With no genuine connection in their lives they seek out and attach themselves to political causes, Instagram lifestyles, and excessive body art. Others, with the means, find their identity in stuff; the cars, the name brand clothes, the bling.
The loss of community in America these past five decades has truly warped our psyche.
Not being on X or Tiktok, I should've said.
Just another day in Paradise.
Check back in 30 years, if she lives that long.
It's a push. While I find it deeply unattractive I don't have to wear it for the rest of my life as she is happy to wear it for hers... And, it does advertise a coming attraction when she walks into a room.
Query: Why is this so off putting where Maori face tatts are not?
Such dire needs.
@William: She doesn't have any swastika or Confederate Flag tattoos on her face. This leads me to be believe that her politics are on the left....
Non sequitur. How many leftists have Che Guevara, anarchy symbols, or hammer and sickle tattoos on their faces?
Tattoos were historically correlated with weak impulse control, to include crime, prostitution, and drug use. Impulse control is a long-term predictor of life outcomes. See the marshmallow experiment. These historical correlations are weakening with the rise of mainstream tattoos, but she may well have done this for reasons fully unrelated to politics.
E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment
E.g., https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=jj_etds
I think there is a poor assumption that the only measure used to determine this influencer's political opinion is this one video. The video suggests she has many more. I don't follow TikTok and Libs of TikTok doesn't provide a link, but I wonder if she might have expressed her political opinion in other videos. I still think she was assaulted, but I've noticed some that have been assaulted outwardly continue to act like they did in the past as a show of defiance, while subconsciously altering their appearance to be less attractive to those that might cause them harm. Her last expression in the video also hints at her show of defiance.
Wouldn't seem unusual if she were setting up the Tilt-A-Whirl at the county fair.
She did not have to try to be pretty before, she was beautiful with a face that would have aged well.
What caused her to mutilate herself, and yes that is what she has done, is deeply personal either from trauma, likely sexual, or mental illness that was on board.
As someone who was molested at a very young age I think I recognize this as an attempt to isolate herself from being attractive. I used, back in the day, weight gain, humor and if those failed, anger to keep the world and social interactions that could have led to intimacy at bay.
If she has politics they probably consist of voting for democrats. But to call her a leftist is to assign a depth of thought that she isn't likely to indulge, she's hurting too much and all of her thinking is directed at what she can do next to keep herself on the fringe and beyond the pale.
"Here, I disagree with Ann. The culture of the Left prompted and encouraged this young woman to destroy and mutilate her body...."
Look it up: Do right wingers get face tattoos? I think tattoos cross the political spectrum.
Addendum - if it's relevant, she just narrowed her potential life partner pool to look alikes.
From the Wikipedia article "Tongue splitting":
"Proponents of body modifications such as tongue bifurcation may feel that body modification leads to a sense of strength and empowerment, assists pair or group bonding, or emotional 'healing' from past trauma. Proponents may simply like the appearance, considering it beautiful, enjoy the novelty or shock value, or believe it leads to increased sensation or enhancement when kissing. Challenging oneself, rites of passage, connecting with or being in control of one's body, making a spiritual connection or testing the body's limits are also reasons given. Like all body modifications, it can be used to connect or identify with a specific group or to ward off those who would make quick undesired judgments based on appearance."
Butker is absolutely right. They have been lying to women. They being the left: the teachers, the media, the government bureaucracy,and in some cases their parents.
However, they have been lying to men too. They lie to all. They seek absolute power and control. They are not happy with just having control over their own lives. They crave control over others. To destroy people as needed to attain their goals. They are not like us. They are our enemies.
AA said: "So she remains, now permanently, in thrall to society’s expectations."
Not sure what you meant by that. Society's expectations? What society? We do not have one society in this country, we have multiple subcultures. Some look like her, some are clean (faced) as the wind driven snow. And many subcultures in between. It's bell curve material.
I didn't watch the video, but I can guess from these comments that the young woman has chosen extreme face ink and piercings. She's made permanent body changes. How different is that from breast removal and puberty blockers?
We have an epidemic of young women sabotaging their sexuality. I don't appreciate LibsofTikTok using her image casually or to score points. This much pain in society needs to be addressed with compassion. The Left tosses women on the bonfire and the Right dances gleefully around it.
I don't know about "deeply sick." A little unfair perhaps. Hyperbolic, I suppose. But deeply sick? That's hyperbole too.
She looks anorexic in the old photo.
How many step-fathers and mama's boyfriends did she have growing up, and how many had her?
There is a contention put forth by some on the right that the battle between the left and the right is not political, but between truth, good, and beauty and falsehood, evil, and ugliness. A spiritual battle. And seeing things like this makes me suspect that they are correct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbvWieJ1flY
Of course LEFTISM is to blame.
It might not be political leftism... It IS cultural Leftism.
"The Left tosses women on the bonfire and the Right dances gleefully around it."
I don't think that the Right is gleeful about it at all. We are saddened and horrified.
Howard - So you are saying no one was fat in this country until Trump came along. LOL.
Moron.
The "I'm a victim/ I'm tormented / look at me me me / Demon freak show is entangled in Cultural Marxism.
Feminism made this happen.
The constant bitching that it’s an affront to a woman to serve others and to serve a utilitarian purpose in this life is the cause.
That’s the evil, insane ideology of feminism.
Feminism is an evil, pagan religion that rejects the Christian ideals of gratitude and service.
Althouse said...
The woman in the video does not say anything about her politics or purport to explain herself in terms of politics.
"Deeply sick" is the new "without evidence"?
She is damaged, wounded in some fashion. She has suffered a trauma. I suspect this is an effort to overcome the damage and keep the world at bay. This I believe is also an instance of self harm. She needs help and this may be something of a cry out for that. She, likely has chosen a future alone.
Libs of TikTok is guilty of assuming the woman's politics without knowing them, based on the likelihood of being right about their assumptions. They've cheapened their product.
The young woman is more in need of compassion than stereotyping. I think it's likely she's been abused in other ways that drove her to do this to herself - but again, these thoughts are based on likelihoods and my past experience. She didn't just mutilate herself, she's acting out and showing it off in public to score imaginary outrage points. Sad.
True Certainty is a rare commodity in today's world, almost never seen. But a lot of decision-making and analysis goes into interpreting incomplete fact sets to reasonably arrive at a working conclusion. I think it's likely that this woman is more sympathetic to progressive leftist ideas than conservative ones, and you'd find this out in a 5 minute conversation - or you could just watch more of her videos. But I'm guessing that politics and activism doesn't figure very highly in her life.
It looks like she's tattooed her sclera and is wearing contacts to give her eyes that reptile appearance.
Ann Althouse said...From the Wikipedia article "Tongue splitting":...or emotional 'healing' from past trauma.
As a number of commenters here have pointed out--women like this nearly always have been abused. I've known many women in addiction recovery and most had been raped at some point. Men deal with trauma by breaking something, women deal with trauma by breaking themselves.
No shouting Thomas - feminism in the old sense of the word is mostly dead.
Cultural Marxism is what this is all about.
Trans "women" who are really men, killing off women's sports... hanging out in women's locker rooms... and the democratic leftists all the way up to Biden forcing that to be OK? Not feminism. That is cultural Marxism.
I have family member who urged their 6 year old daughter to be a "they/Them".
Gender and sex obsessions are not feminism. They are Cultural leftism.
This young woman has chosen to deface her face, which is terribly sad. I don’t know or care what her political ideology (if she has one) is. There are millions of liberals that don’t engage in body modification of any sort, live lives not so different than your own, get married, have children, have jobs. I think it’s past time to drop the ridiculous notion that any political ideology would encourage or support this sort of thing. I occasionally have to ask people here, especially people like Dave Begley, don’t you know any liberals in your community personally?
From 2021:
According to Pew’s research white liberals/Democrats are much more likely than their conservative/Republican peers to have been diagnosed with one or more mental conditions.
Interesting to note the difference is more pronounced in the younger aged category of 18 to 29-year-olds. Another interesting finding was that young white liberal/Democrat females were the most likely to have been diagnosed with a mental condition.
Read More: New Pew Study; White Liberals More Likely To Have Mental Problems | https://wbckfm.com/new-pew-study-white-liberals-mental-problems/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
Look at some of the bikers and proud boys who show up at Trump rallies. Many of them are covered with tattoos. And the Aryan Brotherhood gangs in prison are covered in tats. I don't think these guys are liberals or left wing.
lonejustice - this isn't about people who get tattoos.
This is about a young girl who completely transformed her face to something demonic and unrecognizable.
LOL - Everyone is sooooooo concerned about the Aryan Brotherhood. LOL. Nice try.
ron winkleheimer said: "There is a contention put forth by some on the right that the battle between the left and the right is not political, but between truth, good, and beauty and falsehood, evil, and ugliness. A spiritual battle. And seeing things like this makes me suspect that they are correct."
Absolutely correct. Though many deny it, everyone has a spiritual need. Body, mind and spirit. It can be satisfied in various ways. Some seek the Lord, others self-medicate, others worship social causes. It does not end well for some.
Inga - of course there are normal "liberals" out there. If you want to ignore the radical leftwing progressive cultural Marxist rot in your camp - do so.
We are used to it - ye old Biden corruption supporter.
Is it possible she doesn't hold leftist views? Sure. Anything is possible.
Is it likely she doesn't hold leftist views? Not a chance.
"she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her"
It's not sick but unfair to use other people's mental illness to score political points, but as others have pointed out, data indicate that liberal women suffer much more.
She didn't "have to" do any of this, and the only "society" that wants anything like this from her is the society of lefitsts who believe in unlimited self-modification.
dont make eye contact
She reminds me of Erin Moriarty, who also destroyed her natural beauty, but through plastic surgery.
She looks like a ghoul, because she IS a ghoul. All you can do is point and laugh at the new zoo animals.
When I was young and rebellious I grew my hair long and wore bell bottom jeans. When I finished college first thing I did before job hunting was cut my hair. This poor young woman can’t really undo what she’s done. Going to regret it someday for sure.
1. The woman in the video does not say anything about her politics or purport to explain herself in terms of politics.
Does she have to? Do her facial tats remind you of any Republican women you have know (assuming that you have ever known any)?
2. It's a tragic case,
That it is.
… and you shouldn't be cheaply triumphing or laughing.
Why not? She’s the one who put the video out there.
3. If you think the old version of this woman shows a natural beauty she once possessed, then you don't know much about beauty filters and makeup.
I cannot imagine that I know as much about makeup as any woman who is a teenager or older, nor can I imagine that I know as much about any sort of filters as a BFA who is clearly an expert photographer. But if either of my sons had, back in their late twenties, had brought home the 2021 version of this young woman to meet my wife and I, I doubt we would have found her objectionable due to looks.
4. She was trying to be pretty in the old days, and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her. The new look, however, expresses that torment. So she remains, now permanently, in thrall to society’s expectations.
Yup. And note that she seems to find that to be a good thing.
Lets just get this out of the way... as we wait for the jury verdict regarding the CRIME of the century - that cannot be named by leftists.
TRUMP IS A FELON! TRUMP IS A FELON! TRUMP IS A FELON!
(Just beating you progs to the punch. enjoy.)
When people put imagery out on the web, shouldn't they expect comment on it? And I'll add that if the woman in question doesn't care, should anyone?
I only find myself wondering if she's earning a living. I hope so.
Let's be totally honest. We are watching - in real time - the destruction of the exceptional American culture brick by brick and in all things large and small. And the cause of the destruction is Leftism.
With the Trump trial, we are watching the destruction of our essential Rule of Law culture. And that destruction is celebrated on MSNBC and CNN.
I just heard Mika on "Morning Joe" interview our friend Ken Burns. Mika said, without evidence, that this Administration has had great accomplishments.
Kenny boy claimed that this election is a choice between good and evil; fascism and democracy. If Trump wins, that the end of the Republic.
Ken is right about the existential nature of this election. If the Dems win, we're finished. The inflation and higher electricity prices from the IRA will be the final blow. China will be the sole superpower and the millions the ChiComs paid Joe was the best investment in the history of the world.
With the Left, it is always 2 + 2 = 5.
Oh, boy. That bus took a weird turn into coocooo town.
She was truly pretty. Now she'as a side show freak. She couldn't get a job at Hot Topic.
April - So you are saying no one was doing body modification in this country until the Looney
Marxist left came along. LOL.
Moron.
Signs and wonders. It ain’t the one howard.
A little known factoid:
Howard pioneered the “tramp stamp”.
I think it’s past time to drop the ridiculous notion that any political ideology would encourage or support this sort of thing.
It's a matter of the Overton window, Inga. The American right certainly did not move it to where it is. And the American left has certainly made a point of, first, tolerance, and then embrace (and arguably we're up to encouragement now), of increasingly out-of-the-norms-of-five-minutes-ago behavior and appearance.
Any one person's decision to undertake extreme modifications of behavior and appearance may not be "leftist." But the direction of those modifications, and the demand that we all pretend they're not deeply weird by the standards of those norms of five minutes ago, certainly appear to arise from the left.
Ann writes: "and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her."
And then Ann quotes: ""Proponents of body modifications such as tongue bifurcation may feel that body modification ... assists pair or group bonding.... [R]ites of passage ... are also reasons given. Like all body modifications, it can be used to connect or identify with a specific group or to ward off those who would make quick undesired judgments based on appearance."
So she eschewed one society's expectations and adopted another society's expectations. That seems to be what Ann is highlighting.
But if the underlying question from this person is, "Will you still love me if I do this?", the answer is Yes, we still love you.
"deeply sick"… This she says about the woman who assumed someone's politics, not the woman who mutilated herself.
And with that, she announces her own politics- AWFL!
"Don’t forget that savages invented tattooing,"
One man's savage, is another man's civilized. The Portuguese considered the Japanese savages, however the Japanese were leagues ahead in health, diet, medicine, cleanliness etc. The Japanese considered the Portuguese to be barbarians.
Japanese tattoos are some of the most beutiful artwork in the world.
Liberalism is a philosophy of divergence. Leftism is correlated with authoritarianism. The left-right nexus is leftist.
From "No Country for Old Men."
"El Paso Sheriff: What's it mean? What's it leadin' to? You know, if you'd have told me 20 years ago that I'd see children walking the streets of our Texas towns with green hair and bones in their noses, I just flat out wouldn't have believed you.
Ed Tom Bell: Signs and wonders. But I think once you quit hearing "sir" and "ma'am," the rest is soon to follow.
El Paso Sheriff: Oh, it's the tide. It's the dismal tide."
Cormac McCarthy wrote the book in 2005 and the movie was released in 2007. The movie script follows the novel very closely; in some places it is verbatim.
The young woman can vote. Her vote counts just the same as Althouse's.
Now, that's crazy.
"... is deeply sick." Right. This woman is actually a candidate for Republican National Committeewoman.
I briefly felt nauseous when she flicked that forked tongue.
But as to her politics, yeah, she's obviously 100% MAGA. Frankly, I'm surprised she's not wearing one of the many red MAGA hats from her vast MAGA hat collection.
A lizard? A chameleon? What are we to conclude about reptilian politics?
Begley nailed it - twice. The dismal tide of leftism, fully enabled by the "see no evil" crowd.
“… and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her.”
That reads like a statement of fact. How do you know what she feels inside, does she verbalize it in a different video?
Appropriating a publicly posted TikTok video is an actual thing?
I feel a deep sadness for the young lady and I suspect there is a trauma in her life that led her to self-mutilation, but I don't doubt for a second that she is also deeply immersed in the deeply leftist political soup- they literally go hand in hand since there are almost no counter-examples. Cause and effect might not be known in this case, but the correlation certainly is.
"Howard pioneered the “tramp stamp”."
Fact check- true. However, it stopped working for Howard after he became too fat for any guy to want.
@Chris: Japanese tattoos are some of the most beutiful artwork in the world.
This is not a good comparison.
Japanese tattoos are concentrated among the Yakuza (mafia) and criminals, and display is forbidden in many public areas. People with tattoos (including shocked foreigners) are often prohibited from using public baths / hot springs (onsens) too.
Yakuza tattoo art is indeed sophisticated, but also secretive (i.e., designed to be hidden under a business shirt). See the blank chest stripes and short sleeves here:
https://www.tattoosforyou.org/yakuza-tattoos.php
Traveling with tattoos in Japan: https://www.kanpai-japan.com/japan-travel-guide/traveling-with-tattoos
The doctors who mutilated her eyes and her tongue should lose their medical licenses and go to prison.
I think it's repulsive to waste scarce medical resources to turn yourself into an unemployable "lizard person," and eyeball tattoos should be illegal. They're dangerous. If she goes blind by choice, we still have to support her for life.
The same goes for other cosmetic surgeries. If she can afford this herself, fine. But we subsidize all the seats in every medical school, and I've seen too many people on various forms of welfare and other taxpayer subsidies somehow "finding" the cash for tattoos, implants, weaves, insanely expensive fake nails, extreme body modification, etc.
I don't want to subsidize mentally ill people "finding themselves" through self-mutilation. I am making assumptions here, but she's the one who has presented herself as an entirely subjective example, asking for a reaction to her choices.
@Heartless Aztec: Query: Why is this so off putting where Maori face tatts are not?
Guess: One is an intentionally anti-social destruction of looks, vs pro-social enhancement (e.g., to look like fierce hunter/fisher/warrior)?
Again, Ellen Jamesian Society territory. Not to be encouraged.
Just another example of the “Look at me, look at me, but don’t judge me, you bigot” culture we have since social media (especially TikTok).
Sad.
What I couldn’t get past was her (its?) cultural appropriation of “ya’ll”. That, to me, was another nod to her liberalism and her need to be “seen”. She doesn’t know who she is (isn’t comfortable with herself at all). Adopting “ya’ll” is a giveaway.
Without investigation, I guarantee she belongs to a peer group of similars.
And, drugs contributed to the transition.
Occasionally glad I didn't get that Zig-Zag-Man tattoo. Not the only one here who considered it.
From 2021:
“According to Pew’s research white liberals/Democrats are much more likely than their conservative/Republican peers to have been diagnosed with one or more mental conditions.
Interesting to note the difference is more pronounced in the younger aged category of 18 to 29-year-olds. Another interesting finding was that young white liberal/Democrat females were the most likely to have been diagnosed with a mental condition.
Read More: New Pew Study; White Liberals More Likely To Have Mental Problems | https://wbckfm.com/new-pew-study-white-liberals-mental-problems/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
She made the transition within 2 years. How much would all that cost?
I like the Japanese approach. I did not realize that they were so serious in their disapproval.
“… and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her.”
That reads like a statement of fact. How do you know what she feels inside, does she verbalize it in a different video?
The statement is an example of current "familiar with their thinking" .phenomenon.
"Again, Ellen Jamesian Society territory. Not to be encouraged."
Nice allusion!
I think Michael got it right at 7:22AM. As others have pointed out, Althouses' "She was trying to be pretty in the old days, and then she decided to try to be something more like what she felt inside and not like what she had to torment herself thinking society wanted from her. The new look, however, expresses that torment. So she remains, now permanently, in thrall to society’s expectations." seems to be as big an assumption about what's going on as "this is what leftism does".
'3. If you think the old version of this woman shows a natural beauty she once possessed, then you don't know much about beauty filters and makeup.'
I do know that I am not a fan of tattoos at all, and the lizard tongue thing does nothing for me.
I always wonder what path leads to facial tattoos an heavy body modifications.
Drugs? Child abuse?
Nobody wakes up one day and says to themselves, "I know, I need to get my face completely covered with ink and my tongue split down the middle."
'She doesn't have any swastika or Confederate Flag tattoos on her face. This leads me to be believe that her politics are on the left.....'
Confederates were democrats.
Nazis were socialist, fascist leftists.
Ostracism and ritual humiliation are effective, I don't see why the professor denigrates them here when they are integral to cruel neutrality.
'Japanese tattoos are concentrated among the Yakuza (mafia) and criminals, and display is forbidden in many public areas. People with tattoos (including shocked foreigners) are often prohibited from using public baths / hot springs (onsens) too.'
Exactly. I wrote a brief visitor's guide for friends who want to visit Japan and have a section on etiquette. This is one of the items of note.
She is Orylon. Has a web presence.
Pretty interesting.
William said...
She doesn't have any swastika or Confederate Flag tattoos on her face.
The Confederate Flag represented represented an explicitly Leftist movement.
The swastika used by Germans represent the National Socialist Workers Party. Another explicitly leftist movement.
Her Instagram shows a before pic.
AA was correct, looks much different without filters.
JFC, here's Tim maguire@7:18 repeating Democrat Party propaganda again! Tell us how Reagan closed the mental hospitals, tim. What was executive order for that one? Are you referring to the Short-Lanterman-Petris Act which was a California law outlawing involuntary admission to mental hospitals. It was sponsored by one republican congressman and a whole lot of Democrat Party members. Pertains to California only.
Dave Begley:
Don’t forget that savages invented tattooing,
As well as oral story traditions, religion, mass production, art, clothes, marriage and many other things. Basically all the roots of what we as H sapiens do, including of course all the bad things.
Yes, I'm aware the other primates show more primitive signs of some of those but then, they're savages as well, yes?
Dave Begley:
People with tats are members of the tat tribe.
I'm guessing you'd lump my uncle, a midshipman on a destroyer during WWII with a big-ass eagle on his chest as a member of that tribe?
Ann Althouse:
Look it up: Do right wingers get face tattoos? I think tattoos cross the political spectrum.
Some indeedie do. Didn't even need to look him up. Tom MacDonald
Ann Althouse:
From the Wikipedia article "Tongue splitting":
See also scarification and branding, in the US predominantly a black culture thing.
Ann Althouse:
From the Wikipedia article "Tongue splitting":
See also scarification and branding, in the US predominantly a black culture thing.
Aggie:
It looks like she's tattooed her sclera and is wearing contacts to give her eyes that reptile appearance.
Which should be illegal. People have been made blind by that.
Return of the primitive. Happens in all declining civilizations, as the children of the elites reject their own heritage in favor of someone else's which is defined as authentic.
Tats in certain Western subcultures--sailors or criminals, for instance--are traditional. What's new is tatted masses, to include naturally pretty young women.
Mark:
The doctors who mutilated her eyes and her tongue should lose their medical licenses and go to prison.
Total agreement.
Blogger FullMoon hits the nail on the head, and said...
She made the transition within 2 years. How much would all that cost?
Speaking as a person that is/was friends with tattoo pallor owners.. what *i* see IS:
a girl whose boyfriend/girlfriend/bedBuddy owns a pallor.. SHE did NOT pay for that..
She got it to fit in with her mate, who provided the work..
ps. i said boyfriend/girlfriend.. But i'd bet dollars to donuts* that it was a boy
dollars to donuts* of course, today, that is just about even money
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