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lacey k said:
I dont know why it looked good on Pac but pretty much anything did...
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Because 2pac was so badass that he could wear a dress and still be gangsta.
 
I have this snobbish thing whereby it seems a little common to me for girls under, say, 14 or 15 to have their ears pierced. I realise it's cultural for some people and I respect that; but I've simply never liked how it looks especially babies and small children.

I don't think it's AWFUL for a teenage boy to have one ear pierced, though I personally have never liked piercings on boys.
 
i got my ears pierced mostly for my 10th birthday but also b/c i stopped sucking my thumb :o i made the decision to do it and i'm happy that my mom allowed ME to make such a "major" decision regarding my body. i have a daughter, she is 3.5 and her ears are not pierced. when she was born, i decided to leave the decision with her and make it a special thing if she does decide to get them done. some people, like my grandmother, just don't like the idea of "changing" their bodies in any way. she has never had any piercings nor tattoos (she wears clip-ons! :D) and she always says, "if god intended for me to have holes in my body, i would've been born with them."

right now, my daughter is a total girly-girl. she's into makeup and dresses and nail polish, ear piercings and fancy hairdos but as she grows older, she may change her attitude toward all of these things. i would rather HER make the decision and have it be something she wanted instead of me choosing it for her.

that being said, i have no problem with other parents who feel it's ok to have their daughter's or son's ear(s) pierced at a young age, that's their decision and i wholly respect it :)
 
I totally can't understand infant piercings. Remind me why do babies need to be adorned? Oh right, because they are our pets and they will look more cute or something! Yay!!

As if they need to impress people.

If they actually had some choice in it or it had even a slightly significant meaning like it does in some other cultures, than I can totally respect that. For instance, most traditional Indian infant-ear piercings are centered around an intentional ritual ceremony. It's not just about slapping some metal in the ear and going, awwww, she/he's so cute!!!

Putting metal in a developing body can be especially unhealthy too. There are many points in the ears representing every energy center of the body. Any metal piercings near a meridian will short circuit the energy flow and could potentially cause unseen problems, especially in an unhealthy child or adult.
 
jaymie said:
If they actually had some choice in it or it had even a slightly significant meaning like it does in some other cultures, than I can totally respect that. For instance, most traditional Indian infant-ear piercings are centered around an intentional ritual ceremony. It's not just about slapping some metal in the ear and going, awwww, she/he's so cute!!!
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culture shmulture. i'm of the belief that respect should be given to everyone, and only taken away if there's a good reason. i'm sure that there are a lot of traditional Indians who go along with their "culture" blindly, because it was engrained in them and they never bother to question it.

when i see a toddler with earrings, i think it looks cute. but it's a subjective issue. my mom is italian, and she was a baby when her ears were done. back then, (and maybe still now; i don't know) it was an italian cultural thing. so if that makes it acceptable for them, why isn't it ok for others to do the same? who appointed all the nay-sayers as Culture Police?
 
Peircing babies reduces them to the level of status symbols in my opinion. Poor fuckers I can envisage some neurotic bulimic kid hounded by fashion demons all their life.

Still they're your kids you get to choose how to fuck up their lives.
 
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it barely hurts, and only for a second. i found it much more painful having my hair brushed, because it was always long when i was little, and it always got huge rats nests at the nape. so how is it any different than dressing your kid in the clothes you want to see them in, or having their hair braided with beads?
 
I'm not saying it is good or bad, better or worse---its just my perspective. I see yours too and you're totally right about some people going into it blindly. That is exactly what I am saying too, just speaking from the other side. Do you see that?
 
Who cares....When I was a baby they pierced my ears....I kno maaaad ppl that do that...It is very common in Italian families to pierce your baby girls ears...Who gives a fuck, id do it to my kind sure. I dont see nothing wrong with it at all. it aint like you cant just take it out afterwards. Its ears, it aint your nose or your nipple or nothing, its just a ear. Wheres the line? To me the lines pretty clear to anyone who aint tryna play devils advocate. anyone with a small amount of logic and a level headed perspective can see a difference between piercin a babys ears, and their nose or lip or eyebrow, so i dont even see why anyone would argue it unless they want to split hairs and try and make a arguement where there dont need to be one. If i have a baby girl whenver i have kids someday her ears will be pierced as a baby, definately. If she dont like it when she older she can take it out. Whatever. i dont see what is such a controversy about this....


edit, LOL vibby, i didnt read none of the answers to this post before i replied, and i seen that you said that shit about bein italian...LOL same here...When i was a baby the first thing my grandfather said was " so when you gonna get her ears pierced?!" :D
 
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I dont give a fuck about circumsicion either.

Pillthrill my point is just that generally in forums like SO where its more serious discussion, its a good look to post a thought out response, postin a pic as a reply is the normal thing to do in the lounge but in here its a lil different. a pic like that is just takin up space. if u did it with a reply it would be different....thas all. i aint gonna lie, i seen a reply so i went to click on it, I was jus curious to see some more peoples thoughts on it and then nothing but a picture , i was like damn, cmon, i wanted to see what people had to say, not see a goofy-ass lookin baby with piercings lol. Thats all. aint no thang just pointin it out....
 
I really hope that picture is photoshopped.

I had my ears pierced as a kid and it wasn't a big deal. I remember wanting to get it done because I thought it looked pretty. Don't get the association with "white trash" - my upbringing was (on paper anyways) pretty middle class.

Tattoos on babies of course are ridiculous and if that was real, it would be child abuse IMO. If I have children, anything beyond an ear piercing or 2 can wait until they're 18.
 
Mariposa that pic is clearly photoshopped lol.

Iunno, i guess its jus different beleifs for diff. people. i dont know how it would make somebody white trash neither, that one dont make much sense to me. Im one of those ppl that will be dressin up their kid in some cute-ass baby nikes tho so yall prolly would hate on it regardless ;)
 
had my ears pierced at 4.... and they became infected and my mum had to take the out... something to do with me not being mature enough to look after them and the longgg hair i had at the time.

i remember reading an article about this, and there were some interesting comments. maybe take a look at these opinions, im not sure myself, but modblog is created by people in the piercing/body modification industry.
http://modblog.bmezine.com/2008/04/15/piercing-babies/
http://modblog.bmezine.com/2007/08/04/these-pictures-upset-me/
http://modblog.bmezine.com/2007/06/29/knee-suspension-age-10/
http://modblog.bmezine.com/2006/11/29/northern-thailand/
http://modblog.bmezine.com/2006/08/31/needles-not-guns/

so check these links out, they might help you make up your mind.
 
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