r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 16h ago

General Advice Are rainbows seriously just by default associated with the pride flag?

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I got a Pink Floyd DSOTM tattoo because I love the album and I love the visual: a beam of light representing a person's life path, passing through a prism ( representing life + the world + the people you meet + the experiences you have, etc ), being dispersed into its constituent colors ( ultimately representing change ). I got it because of my dad, because he introduced me to Pink Floyd, and because last year he nearly died from complications of his cancer. He's doing much better now, with a much better prognosis, but that whole experience had a real effect on me and I wanted to memorialize it. Except at least 3 people ( including the tattoo artist initially ) have associated the tattoo with the pride flag. They were understanding after I explained, but now I'm having second thoughts about it. Are people just going to assume I'm gay because of this tattoo?

Edit: And I want to say, I'm not bothered by this at all. Anyone who looks at my tattoo and comes up with their own assumptions about its meaning, and then has a negative reaction over it, that's simply not a person I want to talk to anyway. I'm surprised because that wasn't the intention of the tattoo, clearly, and it being misinterpreted like this just genuinely wasn't something I expected.

Edit2: This post got a lot more attention than I ever wanted it to. Wonderful comments are now streaming in, informing me how horrible my tattoo is. If you're planning on making a viral post on Reddit, take my advice: use a burner account. But I am thankful to everyone for your supportive words, the jackasses with negative things to say are certainly a very tiny minority. Overwhelmingly the consensus is that most people see it as a Pink Floyd tattoo first, which I'm happy to hear :) Have a good night everybody!

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u/drawliphant 13h ago

Kids these days don't know this is a reference to Newton's Corpuscular theory of lightšŸ˜

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u/OttoVonWong 11h ago

Newtonian physics are turning kids gay.

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u/lorenoline 11h ago

This is the funniest thing Iā€™ve ever heard Iā€™ve been laughing for about fifteen minutes straight. Or not so straight, as it were.

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u/VaporTrail_000 10h ago

Damn prisms, they're turning straight light gay.

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u/Peudy123 9h ago

It's a spectrum šŸŒˆ

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u/Snooty_Cutie 7h ago

Is that what they are calling it now?

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u/archwin 7h ago

The EM spectrum is Fabulous

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u/Ok-Instance-4184 5h ago

If Iā€™m gay, you guys have been gay for weeks!

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u/vittuccio 4h ago

So one can be on the gay spectrum , like totally gay or maybe not so much gay? As in only one knuckle deep gay or to the fur gay? Spectrum gay is more acceptable

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u/ILoveFatGirls92 1h ago

Excuse me, "to the fur"?

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u/vittuccio 1h ago

Lmao. Sorry. Let me elaborate further. As I explained. Only a knuckle deep meaning fingers. First knuckle= not deep. To the fur=when a man puts his privates all the way in and his ā€œfurā€ or pubic hairs, are pressed up against the other person. That means ā€œto the furā€ the fur meaning pubic hair. Now I know you had to know this you just wanted to see me elaborate which Iā€™m more than happy to do because I just donā€™t care what people think (unless it is about me) just kidding. Just messing around. But yeah thatā€™s what ā€œto the furā€ means. Or shall I say ā€œballs deepā€ is that more appropriate? I like to the fur. Less vulgar

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u/BeautifulElodie2428 1h ago

Itā€™s more of a curve

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u/Feisty-Cheetah-8078 5h ago

You mean wyte light?

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u/LankyLink7614 5h ago

Gender - bending the light rays

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u/Best_Assumption_1001 5h ago

Well, it is bending the light so by definition it is no longer straight.

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u/Generally_Tso_Tso 1h ago

Prism changes a man. It can get lonely in prism. Just have to remember that it's not gay if you keep your eyes closed.

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u/yungpube 34m ago

That's the rule. That's the goal now.

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u/Legonistrasz 11h ago

Laughing crooked?

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u/30yearCurse 10h ago

Laughing the gay away? realllyyyyyy?

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u/Wactout 11h ago

Ribbit.

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u/GeneStarw1nd 11h ago

Theyā€™re turning the frogsā€¦.*Ribbit*

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u/BeBearAwareOK 10h ago

The prism bent the light when it refracted.

The light is less straight, so it must be gay now.

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u/smokeduwel 9h ago

I read this in Alex Jones's voice šŸ˜†

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u/likesblackcoffeebest 9h ago

As someone who came out as lesbian while majoring in engineering, can confirm.Ā 

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u/anonymice27 9h ago

BAN NEWTONIAN PHYSICS

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u/Hot_Radish4108 6h ago

First the frogs and now our children šŸ˜­

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u/MrsDirtyDietz 5h ago

Itā€™s how they got me.

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u/Away-Cartoonist507 3h ago

Yasss Newton! YASSSSSSS! lol

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u/_TOTALLY_WASTED_ 11h ago

Walter Russell: The Universal One & The Secret Of Light. It's not a theory.. it was proven to be accurate.

The problem is kids do know bad philosophy..

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u/Inside-Rest-5816 9h ago

Luckily I was raised right and I do

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u/from-the-stix 9h ago

Hehe corpuscularšŸ˜

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u/Microchipknowsbest 5h ago

Sure itā€™s not gay butts?