OK - I'm a target. Raised in a different time and the mores, morals, and certain things pertaining to style were impressed upon me at a young age, so I've been told I'm "judgmental". Guess what ? We ALL are. If you have any common sense you have to make value judgments every day about things that affect your health, safety and personal preferences on what you find attractive AND repulsive. After seeing myself in the mirror for almost 70 years I'm the first to admit I have no right to "make fun" of the way anyone else looks . . . but people who go out of their way to be seen should not expect universal admiration in their choice of off putting style statements.
Kind of off the track here, but a simple telling illustration is a well endowed woman who insists on wearing low cut form fitting tee shirts with cute, pithy, enigmatic or humorous statements printed across the breast level, and then taking umbrage when someone looks. If you don't want to be looked at don't put it prominently on display with a big sign that says "LOOK HERE !".
I'm from the age where tattoos were seen only on sailors and Marines for the most part and considered 'low class' on most anyone else. Times change, styles change, minds change. But when you ink up your face, neck, hands and any usually visible area with trashy looking and or profane images you don't get to play the "I'm sensitive ! Don't look at me !" card.
My personal "judgmental" issue I'm puzzled by is someone (usually a female but many times who can tell these days ?) who is not generally considered to be 'attractive' to begin with, wearing an unflattering haircut, with a frame carrying twice the weight it was designed for, metal piercings all over her face and the fashion sense and hygiene of a person living under a bridge who seems to think that having hummingbirds or butterflies tattooed on their calves and ankles is going to make them a sexy catch.
Hey, like the kids like to say these days, "you do you". Doesn't affect me in the least. Just don't demand that I accept your choices without reservation and exercise my choice to avoid dealing with you as is my right to be left alone or decide I'd rather not have someone who looks like an escapee from a hepatitis ward preparing my food. We are free to make our own choices. Doesn't mean we're free from the consequences of those choices.
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