" But if you look a cop, Nah, you will think is waiter," he once told a lady in the harbor , a bit disgusted and a little more frightened by my then five tattoos - who are now seven and that will eventually be eleven. " Sure," I thought "safe om, the prince and the Mayan god of the sun are tattoos that anyone would expect from a gang member" . I guess a similar terror masters who were already experienced by the time the Beatles have dared to become famous with long hair (which was not long), although this same rebellion (complete with the tenderness that makes me call it something as trivial) open the minds of many who questioned, even from the very basic approach, the then prevailing concept of masculinity. That already several decades, however, have changed little social prejudices in this regard, especially by the generation to which it is his turn to be parents of the kids rebel. Although it is inevitable to relate this taste for body adornment - including piercings - with a fad, I'm pretty sure that ink or metal adorned with little response to want to do in terms of look " in " or be part of a trend ( but these idiots are always there, of course) and more freedom of knowing reveals one of his own body. Obviously it would be naive to pretend that we do not live in this world and ignore the people who go to a bank is still waiting for their tickets to be counted by a properly patojo engelatinado and wearing ties, not one, save God, look waiter. Which under the table have their shoes full of dried mud, a sign of the minimum wage, it does not matter, of course, because it is not. But everything must have a balance, I say, and one thing is for parents to choose to be angry and another state feel entitled to discriminate and restrict the liberty of citizens in these areas that should not be problem for anyone. Recently a friend was forced to take off in a aretito INTECAP used in the eyebrow, under threat of calling the security of the building to force him out. I know there are much bigger problems in this country, but perhaps we can Small attack at once. What if we sent many letters to make them reconsider INTECAP stupid and discriminatory policy? Write me and tell them how.
Note: This was my fifth Siglo21 weekly column, published on Tuesday 26 April 2011. The text published in the print edition differs from the transcript here by editing the newspaper's staff. The link to the website is Siglo21
http://www.s21.com.gt/vida/2011/04/25/patojos-rebeldes
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