"I'm not sure I understand the original problem then... I thought you had said that you were upset that employers didn't take a liking to people with piercings, tattoos, etc.? " i can see where you got that, but my complaint is with closemindedness in general. a number of people claimed to be openminded so as to add weight to their opinion on erik, even though the majority of the posters have no inkling to even try and respect other's decisions.
"It's called marketability and employability." but that's not what i'm talking about. my apperance is *very* tame. in an interview, there's no need of my possible employers knowing about the things i've done with a needle. it's listening to sexuaphobic, closeminded, prejudicial co-workers with intolerant opinions about things they haven't even considered trying to understand that annoy me. people who then read the/. article about the fbi keeping an eye out for gamers, and get mad about how they are being judged for something they know doesn't make them a psycho.
it saddens me to see that future employers and co-workers are so intolerant of such trivial things. there is an on-topicness to this thread, sorry so many of you can't see it. it's strange that technologically minded people don't see how modifying our own bodies, rather than parents genetically altering them before birth, is a wonderful chance to explore the possibilities of our physical limitations. hack your body, the one thing truly your own.
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"I'm not sure I understand the original problem then... I thought you had said that you were upset that employers didn't take a liking to people with piercings, tattoos, etc.? " i can see where you got that, but my complaint is with closemindedness in general. a number of people claimed to be openminded so as to add weight to their opinion on erik, even though the majority of the posters have no inkling to even try and respect other's decisions.
"It's called marketability and employability." but that's not what i'm talking about. my apperance is *very* tame. in an interview, there's no need of my possible employers knowing about the things i've done with a needle. it's listening to sexuaphobic, closeminded, prejudicial co-workers with intolerant opinions about things they haven't even considered trying to understand that annoy me. people who then read the /. article about the fbi keeping an eye out for gamers, and get mad about how they are being judged for something they know doesn't make them a psycho.
it saddens me to see that future employers and co-workers are so intolerant of such trivial things. there is an on-topicness to this thread, sorry so many of you can't see it. it's strange that technologically minded people don't see how modifying our own bodies, rather than parents genetically altering them before birth, is a wonderful chance to explore the possibilities of our physical limitations. hack your body, the one thing truly your own.