Women with Tattoos Are Uglified
Tattoos on women do not adorn.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 3 quotes from 2026, from Blog & Mablog, each cited to the source.
When a woman is loved and secured by her father, and then by her husband, the result is that she flourishes in loveliness. Love bestows loveliness. When that is lacking for whatever reason, she might fight to hide the deficit by means of bangles that shine, or she might start adding blemishes of her own because she feels blemished. [Nancy] Mace has said that she got the tattoos during a time of personal turmoil. She’s been married twice before, and when she broke up with her third fiancé, she turned to the ink... A woman could do this because she believes it is an adornment. Well, I would continue to believe that it was an adornment fail.
Tattoos on women do not adorn. They are not lovely. They do not elevate. They are uglifying, not to mention being low-rent. Nancy Mace was an elected representative in Congress and a gubernatorial candidate for the state of South Carolina, but in this image, she looks like a waitress from Waffle House. She is now a tattooed lady instead of what she ought to be, which is a lady. She is an attractive woman, but now she looks like she is a woman having a personal meltdown. She looks like she just showed up at the domestic abuse center.
a significant number of the tattoos look like they were done by a drunken chimpanzee who had been inadequately trained. But either way, it is my view that the woman is not thereby adorned. Something negative has happened. Now, the outrage that the comments above have quite possibly created is an outrage that is grounded on the fact that I'm a man and a pastor at that criticizing women. Moreover, I'm criticizing women over something that they can now do nothing about, however much they would like to, and however much they regret how much they had to drink that night.
On the insults page: “adornment fail”