Let's Talk Saturdays--It's not Ladylike ???

Hey everybody !! I hope you're having a happy Saturday so far. So earlier this week I was scrolling down my social media sites per usual. I'm scrolling down Facebook and I see this post. 

If you can't read the caption it says "Guys, Will you allow your wife to have tattoos all over her body?" 😒😒😒😒The way this question was presented is so problematic. 

First of all, this isn't even about my husband (if I was married) he's just gonna have to deal. For one thing, I already have six tattoos. If he doesn't like tattoos, he's just going to have to get over it. Secondly, it's my body so if I decide to get a tattoo, that's my business. I am a grown woman and I am more than capable of making a sound decision. It'd be different if I wanted to get a dumb tattoo, like frog on my forehead or something. Personally, I feel like it I am burning it into my skin, then it needs to be important. So no this is not about what he is going to allow me to do. It is what he is willing to accept. If you can't look pass something as simple as tattoos, why are we married?I feel like if I love tattoos that much, me and him should've had a conversation about that at some point before marriage. People don't just wake up and their whole body is tattooed. 

Secondly this made me think about how the church frowns upon tattoos, especially on women. Like I've told y'all time and time again, I'm a Southern woman. Things were constantly drilled in my head about behaving like a lady. I shouldn't sit with my legs open. Don't slouch. Don't wear pants to church. Don't get tattoos and piercing. It's just something that was drilled into my head. I really wish people didn't get so caught up on outward appearance. 

But I guess people are so quick to judge, and they're so quick to use Leviticus 19:28 as their reasoning for not getting tattoos. If you don't know what this verse says, it basically says you shouldn't marking on the body for the dead. Well 4 out of the 6 tattoos I have are Christ related and my God is alive so that verse does not apply to me. I remember being about 19 and someone told me I wasn't really saved because I had tattoos. In normal Briana behavior, I clapped back. Keep in mind, the woman who said this to me has a husband who has a sleeve. At the time I had I think 3 tattoos. So when I asked her about her husband, she ran to his defense quickly and said that it wasn't lady like for me to have tattoos. So which one is it? Am I not really saved or am I not ladylike? 

I know I'm not the only one who has experience this. A few times on social media, I have seen people make comments towards Tasha Cobbs-Leonard and KiKi Sheard because they have tattoos. I specifically remember somebody commenting on one of Tasha's videos and saying she wasn't going to support her music anymore. That is absolutely ignorant. The fact that these women have tattoos has nothing to do with their anointing, the God in them, or their spirit. We teach children not to judge a book by its cover, but yet here we are. My whole thing is we, as Christians, are to love people with the love of Christ. God doesn't care what I look like or if I have tattoos, He still loves me, and so should people.