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Post-ironic tattoosGallery / 10 images There’s a Kim Kardashian quote about tattoos from a 2009 interview with Wendy Williams that goes: “Honey, would you put a bumper sticker on a Bentley?” Over a decade later, it’s being used by women on TikTok without tattoos to flex their supposed superiority. This idea that women without tattoos are “clean girls” while inked women have “ruined” their natural beauty isn’t exactly new – but, in recent years, anti-tattoo rhetoric has been ramping up online. There are people who swear they lost “aura points” by getting a sleeve in their 20s, and others lasering off all the patch tattoos they got when they were 18. Then there are the teenagers making “throat” jokes in the...