I’ve never understood why people get earrings, despite them often being unattractive.

  • vexikron@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Firstly: wow, an actual unpopular opinion!

    Secondly: I will go so far as to say absolutely tooooons of people wear earrings that I personally find extremely silly, unfashionable, or outright gross.

    Sorry ear plug people. They look goofy when theyre in and they look horrifying when theyre out.

    Probably this opinion of mine comes from knowing a person who managed to get their … ear loop? caught on something and tear apart.

    Also: I think its child abuse to force a 3 to 9 year old to get their ears pierced.

    I used to date a person who worked at a Claire’s… and they would tell me that they would often, as in multiple times a week, have a family of recent immigrants from… India? Bangladesh? … come into the store, and they would have to physically restrain a screaming obviously unwilling child to get their ears pierced.

    Anyway: I think it is too far to agree that earrings in general are just bad all the time, but there are lots of cases where theyre done poorly.

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      4 months ago

      The fools, they should have told that child from the day they were born that they couldn’t have pierced ears until they were at least 12. The kid would start wheedling for it at 6 and they could “give in” at 8. The child would still cry after the first ear, but would sit still and say thank you afterwards.

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      4 months ago

      Also: I think its child abuse to force a 3 to 9 year old to get their ears pierced.

      Here it’s normal to do it to your toddler.