With the photo above in mind I wanted to share a comment that was left on ModBlog a month or two back – I wasn’t really sure whether I should (or could) post it, but I think it says a lot about the wonderful people that are involved in or are positively affected by body modification and those who appreciate the support from others in (and on the sidelines of) the community..
“I stumbled into this website by accident and have spent the last three hours reading posts and viewing photos. If I was forced to put a label on myself I old say that I am a cowboy; and not the weekend wingnut type with a new hat and $700.00 Ostrich boots. The reason I mention this is that while I am certainly not naive, I have never see anything like this website before and I was both fascinated and impressed with some of the things done by the participants. I had my tongue pierced several years ago as a gift to my wife and my friends shit a pickup! I have been listening to “fag” remarks for so long they don’t eve register anymore. As far as they are concerned, piercing my tongue is comparable to Willie Nelson wearing a tutu at his next concert. Fuck ‘em, I’m keeping it!
Anyway, the reason I bothered to post this in the first place is that I wanted to tell all of you that you kick ass. I am impressed with the fact (unlike most all of the assholes in this world) you are all supportive of one another regardless of body shape, size, color, height and weight. I hope to meet many of you in my next life; until then, keep it up and thanks for restoring some of my faith in the human race.“
It should also remind you that before you comment on a tattoo, piercing or chosen modification to think about the person’s feelings. Constructive criticism/personal tastes are fine but one thing I’ve noticed and is probably unavoidable as ModBlog is wide open, is that there seem to be a few people who just come here to be nasty (with alarming regularity), that’s not what ModBlog is for and it’s time it ended!
So there, see. You can put your vomit bag away now, just remember to empty it first.
Comments
64 responses to “It’s true.. We rock!”
i like that comment.
i think that everyone on this website should be supportive of what people are doing.
even if it doesn’t somehow meet your particular taste or style.
i liked what he had to say.
also that baby is cute x’s 40923820349!
here here! haha almost missed the support hand behinde the kid and was a tad taken back..haha
first off I wanted to say thanks to you roo for the post of me and my amazing daughter dahlia. Also thank you for the entire post both what you had to say and the responses from our lovely community and family I call bme. For a while there I’ve been nervous to post more pics because honestly, who wants to be negatively criticized by a community who is supposed to be open and eager to anything new. It’s time for everyone to be positive and remember why we got into this. P.S. I am not a cowboy nor did I leave the cowboy comment I am just the father in the pic with his beautiful daughter.
my wonderfull husband and daughter i love them both
they are a great example for this blog!!!!
i love my babies!!!!!!!!!!:}
Wes/Jen – Just added a link to your Myspace 🙂
(I bet you wish you were that cowboy though, don’t you!)
I never knew something that could take away pain and change the way I felt about myself until I descovered body modification. I am not too heavily modded, 3/4 lobes,00g labret,2g septum and a few random tattoos with plenty more on the way. I found something that let me control the way I truly look and how I feel about my body and the pain it experiences and I am totally in love with it. It makes me feel great every time someone with clearly no mods at all compliments a piece of jewelry or tells me my labret actually looks nice on me so to read this piece of text from a man outside of OUR community will keep me smiling for days
yeah… sorta reminds me of that song off of slc punks… i want to be a cowboy… lol… preciate it again roo. and more piks will be sent to ya…
this is by far one of my favorite mod-dad and baby pics! sooo cute!
and i can totally agree with the cowboy. modblog made me feel more welcome when the people around me didn’t understand why i was getting pierced or tattoos or anything. i’ve told people that i want to do a suspension at some point in my lifetime, and all i’ve gotten are strange faces and whys, where i know here i’d get a “cool!”
this site has really made me feel welcome, and opened my eyes also. nothing seems strange anymore…we’re all just people–really awesome people 🙂
Hah, what an awesome guy.
Picture is really cute, too.
Amen! <3
This is just downright lovely. I love knowing that BME is such an open and accepting community and family, even if there are the occasional negative comments (and thank you, Roo, for pointing out that they’ve been getting excessive lately – you are so right!). And the fact that someone who wasn’t aware of the body modification community before can come here and see the positives of BME instead of their mind immediately throwing up a shield of ignorance in defense, the fact that this has restored someone’s faith in humanity, actually restores MY faith in humanity. I’m in no way heavily modded – 0g lobes, that’s all (and I’m not planning on having much more done – I’m personally fond of minimalism :] ) – but I’ve gotten my fair share of shit even for that.
I love knowing that there’s at least one person out there whose features don’t contort with the sight of something like this, someone who doesn’t immediately ask “Whyyyy?”
(Because, as most of us here are aware, no answer to that question will truly satisfy the person asking it.)
And this restores my hope that he isn’t the only one out there like this.
Thank you, Roo, BME, and mystery cowboy. :]
& adorable baby!
IT’S AN AWESOME PIC BRO, AND IT MUST BE AN HONOR TO HAVE THE 2ND CUTEST BABY IN THE WORLD!
that’s. my baby girl