I tell people this kind of thing all the time. You have to be aware that altering your physical appearance can have drastic consequences. It's your right to do whatever you want to yourself as a consenting adult, in the same way that other people are free to draw conclusions about you from what you show them. If you don't want people thinking your a nut job then you would have never tat'd a triple 6 in the middle of your forehead to begin with.
I have a close friend I tried to get on at my job (I do installations for security systems) and my boss wouldn't hire him because he has visible tattoos on both arms. He didn't think the older customers whom we have to interact with when we do the installations inside their homes would be comfortable with it. Guy is nice as can be with a clean record and good references but image is everything and I couldn't get him hired. I was letdown but I couldn't really argue with his logic.
His lawyer is right, If I saw a guy who looked like that walking my direction I'd automatically think he's a degenerate. That's what he looks like, he went out of his way to cultivate that image & get that reaction when he did all that.That shouldn't allow him any special privileges though, it's not as if it were something that was done to him, or some kind of birth defect he was born with, he made those choices, he should have to sit in the court room and face the jury the same way any other defendant would, and if the "Crazed Escaped Mental Patient" look hurts his cause, it's a consequence of his own actions.
I have a close friend I tried to get on at my job (I do installations for security systems) and my boss wouldn't hire him because he has visible tattoos on both arms. He didn't think the older customers whom we have to interact with when we do the installations inside their homes would be comfortable with it. Guy is nice as can be with a clean record and good references but image is everything and I couldn't get him hired. I was letdown but I couldn't really argue with his logic.
His lawyer is right, If I saw a guy who looked like that walking my direction I'd automatically think he's a degenerate. That's what he looks like, he went out of his way to cultivate that image & get that reaction when he did all that.That shouldn't allow him any special privileges though, it's not as if it were something that was done to him, or some kind of birth defect he was born with, he made those choices, he should have to sit in the court room and face the jury the same way any other defendant would, and if the "Crazed Escaped Mental Patient" look hurts his cause, it's a consequence of his own actions.