People keep talking about "these young people" with their tattoos and 
piercings, but I'm homing in on 40, and I know a lot of professional 
people in my age range that are tattooed and/or pierced.  In fact, I'd 
say most of my friends - most of whom are either professionally employed 
or stay-at-home moms - have one or the other.  It's been part of the 
youth culture for several decades now, so there's no use pretending like 
it's not part of grown-up culture.  In other words: get used to it, 
people.  Stop freaking out when you see people that don't look like you. 

Going back to the original protest about the dis on "goth girl": it's by 
all means fair to judge a person's performance, but slamming someone 
based on their appearance is out of line, whether that appearance is a 
genetic trait or a personal choice.  If every employer was willing to 
hire only Barbie and Ken dolls in khakis and polos, the world would be a 
dismal, boring place, and lots of unqualified people would be getting 
jobs because of their looks.  Is that what we want?  There's a way to 
balance individual expression and professional appearance, and it takes 
practice.  If Kinko's saw fit to hire goth girl, but didn't see fit to 
train her properly, that's a failure on the management's part.  Customer 
service is a learned skill, not something you are injected with when you 
go to Banana Republic to buy a preppie uniform.  All the more reason to 
*train* your front-line staff, and not just slap a logo shirt on them 
and send them to the front desk. 

Jill R. Chancey, PhD
Curator
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
PO Box 1108
Laurel, MS 39440
www.LRMA.org
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