I have a video tape, around here somewhere, made by some women twenty odd years ago. It shows a couple women in bathing suits, both tattooed, one heavily, walking down a New Jersey beach. The camera trailed a discrete distance behind and captured the reactions of people, sitting on the beach, after the girls passed.
Much negativity. The tattooed women, who also produced this video, claim the difference between tattooed people and plain people, is that tattooed people don't care if plain people don't have tattoos.
I think that's a reflection of society in general. I don't want to have fun, I just want to make sure you don't.