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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattooed_Lady I was interested in doing something in relation to differences in gender stigmas and tattoos. This article does speak about stigmas in a broad sense and I think I might be able to add this section in and have it flow with the rest of the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_education_in_the_United_States Sex differences in education in the United States also interests me, specifically the difference when it comes to STEM education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism_in_the_technology_industry This article is in relation to the sex differences in education except it is about the differences in the workforce. I believe their may be room to edit the SET culture topic in this article. The information seems a bit outdated.

tattooed lady( today's lady) body placement ( women vs men)s symbolism and meaning ( sexual promiscuity and femininity)

The end of sideshows changed the presence of the tattooed lady. As they faded away and entered into mainstream society, tattoos once again gained a negative connotation. Throughout history there has been a negative outlook on people with tattoos. Although, men have received negative reactions, the presence of tattoos on a man has been more socially accepted then that of a woman. Over the decades the popularity of tattooing has been on the rise, with women now obtaining more than half of the tattoos in the industry. The reemergence of the tattooed lady has taken on a different entity. They are no longer the sideshow performers of yesteryear but now what one may consider, the everyday woman; mothers, students and even career oriented professionals, but still there is a stigma there. These career-oriented women expressed strong possession support for the tattoo from their significant person and friends, not as much support from mothers, siblings and children. Fathers of the tattooed women, physicians and registered nursing with whom the subjects came into contact, and the general public were the least likely to voice the acceptance of the tattoo ( Armstrong, Myrna 1991).

Due to the continued stigma of women with tattoos, women tend to determine the placement of their tattoos differently than men. Generally, women will choose an area of the body where the tattoo will not be seen immediately or that can be covered up, when needed. Woman usually have the first tattoo placed on an unexposed part of their body, if they later choose another tattoo, a more visible body area may be selected (Goldstein, 1985). They also choose areas of the body that may be considered the most feminine. While women are choosing the top of the foot, inner wrist, the side of the ribcage and the shoulder as their most common body parts to get inked, their male counterparts is choosing areas like the arm, chest, forearm and back. For many years women with tattoos were placed into specific categories: circus side show acts, biker chicks, hippies or prostitutes. The presence of a tattoo on a woman’s body in today’s society should not necessarily be against the norm but it still maintains a certain sexual connotation. Women with tattoos are changing what femininity; beauty is through self- expression. Tattoos have always been looked at as a masculine trend, so for a woman to want to ink her body and draw attention to herself can be seen differently, specifically in today’s patriarchal society. So on a woman's body any tattoo becomes the symbol of bodily excess. When a woman's body is a sex object, a tattooed woman's body is a lascivious sex object; when a woman's body is nature, a tattooed woman’s body is primitive; when body is a show. It would attach to their tattoos are culturally written over to simply and only punctuate meanings already attached to their bodies within a larger cultural domain (Braunberger 2000). Whatever the meaning behind women’s tattoos, whether it symbolize, strength, beauty or sex, it is very clear the tattooed lady is not disappearing from mainstream society as quickly as she did before.