My mother told me, very sharply after she saw my first tattoo (I was 19), that "only rednecks and criminals get tattoos, and now I have to think of you as one."
Luckily, since then, she has realized that, even though she disapproves, I do take the effort to get quality tattoos that I am proud of.
However, the lady who wrote the self-important drivel in the article, dat shit cray.