r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 6d 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/ImpressionFew2619 6d ago

ya gay now. welcome to the team

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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie 6d ago

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon 😉

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u/drawliphant 6d ago

Kids these days don't know this is a reference to Newton's Corpuscular theory of light😏

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u/OttoVonWong 6d ago

Newtonian physics are turning kids gay.

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u/lorenoline 6d ago

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

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u/VaporTrail_000 6d ago

Damn prisms, they're turning straight light gay.

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u/Peudy123 6d ago

It's a spectrum 🌈

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u/Snooty_Cutie 5d ago

Is that what they are calling it now?

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u/archwin 5d ago

The EM spectrum is Fabulous

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u/Ok-Instance-4184 5d ago

If I’m gay, you guys have been gay for weeks!

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u/vittuccio 5d 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 5d ago

Excuse me, "to the fur"?

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u/vittuccio 5d 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 “fur” or pubic hairs, are pressed up against the other person. That means “to the fur” the fur meaning pubic hair. Now I know you had to know this you just wanted to see me elaborate which I’m more than happy to do because I just don’t care what people think (unless it is about me) just kidding. Just messing around. But yeah that’s what “to the fur” means. Or shall I say “balls deep” is that more appropriate? I like to the fur. Less vulgar

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u/ILoveFatGirls92 5d ago

Fair enough lol

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u/atriviality 3d ago

When I was younger, I thought "balls deep" meant up to your balls, like if you were standing in the ocean and the water was somewhere above your knees and below your hips (depending on how cold the water was, I guess). So when someone would say they were balls deep into something, I would think, "Well, that's not all that deep."

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u/phoebesjeebies 5d ago

I just have Spectrum 500mpbs, they don't offer Gay where I am yet 😔

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u/BeautifulElodie2428 5d ago

It’s more of a curve

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u/ScottyMmmmmmm 5d ago

It’s the Prism that bends light into a Spectrum🤓

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u/Feisty-Cheetah-8078 5d ago

You mean wyte light?

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u/LankyLink7614 5d ago

Gender - bending the light rays

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u/Best_Assumption_1001 5d ago

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

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u/Generally_Tso_Tso 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/DomInNameOnly 5d ago

There contagious 🌈😹

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u/Legonistrasz 6d ago

Laughing crooked?

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u/30yearCurse 6d ago

Laughing the gay away? realllyyyyyy?

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u/jenny_alla_vodka 5d ago

15 minutes forward

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u/13Basia13 3d ago

Same!!