Which is just fine - maybe even part of the point. I don't want to think that I am very much like the people who react badly to my body decoration and modification choices. On the other hand, that doesn't mean that I necessarily have a great affinity for everyone who is tattooed. The extent to which tattoos give strangers an excuse and opportunity to talk to me in public places is amazing. People who would never speak to me under other circumstances find it totally permissable to approach me, grab at my limbs, and ask me intrusive questions.
Responses vary from admiration to ignorance to falt-out rudeness.
Its actually given me a chance to talk to some interesting people that I otherise wouldn't have met. I have one tattoo. I've wanted a tatoo for a long time but it took me a couple years to come up with the right design. It's a constant theme in my artwork. I got the basic ida form my tattoo from a painting of St. Lucy and re-drew it.