02.27.08
Body Jewelry
I am happy that someone can make a joke about body jewelry. Recently, a comedienne mentioned that she saw a young person with a safety pin through an eyebrow, and she hadn’t even realized that eyebrows could possibly fall off. LOL
Nursing homes workers who have visible body piercings, with metal parts, must cover them with Bandaids. They are too disturbing for residents to see. Days like this, I think I must be old, too. They disturb me, not only visually, but because I worry about fatal infections for those who engage in such practices.
The biggest turn off is to see a food server with jutting metal parts. How can any of this be “cute” or attract the opposite gender? I sit in wonderment at the trend. More often, I stand in fascination and revulsion, especially for … lip jewelry.
The fact that young people think that this idea is just the ultimate of things to do to themselves is beyond my comprehension. I suppose it is a variation of the “ring through the nose” practice of earlier cultures. In terms of civilization, things like this seem to represent “one step forward, two steps back.” Nothing truly ever changes. Teenagers only think they are inventing something new, to be “different.”
If I had a family member who did this kind of thing, I would consider locking him or her in a closet until he or she came to his or her senses. I’d be mortified, disgusted, and feel a sense of betrayal. The idea of metal facial jewelry is an insult to God himself and is disgustingly ugly, as well as dangerous.
Yet restaurants keep hiring teenagers who “adorn” themselves in this manner. Why?
Perhaps the workers will get a brain infection and die. In this manner, at least, they will not procreate more individuals of the same ilk. In the meantime, they could be considered “handicapped,” based on their ability to “handicap” business by turning off customers.
Some people have so many piercings, they would need their entire head wrapped in gauze to hide them all. Though alarming, I suppose that amount of wrapping might engender sympathy; maybe even get some extra tips, as people envision that the party might have been severely injured in the war, or has just undergone brain surgery.
Usually, I say “live and let live.” In this case, I say, “If you are going to mutilate yourself, don’t expect me to look at you and admire the “work.” I don’t know who started the trend, probably someone with extra metal on hand. No doubt, it is, like everything else, all about someone putting money in the bank for a “service.” Only, in this case, the “service” is to disfigure someone … or worse.
And people wonder why older folks long for the “good ole days”????
Patricia Cummings
