From my ears, to your hips.
Or something like that.
It was just over three years ago that I got my ears pierced. Both of them. I did it at Be-All in Chicago, after meeting a friend who had both hers done.
Since that time, I’ve had remarkably little reaction. In boy-world, I’m a pretty straight-laced, clean cut, conservative-appearing fellow, so this lack of response surprised me.
But in the last three weeks… Suddenly, everyone seems to be noticing/reacting. Out of the blue, a coworker said the earrings made me more like Courtney Cox than Dr. Cox. (I can be a bit gruff at work.)
Another acquaintance was shocked to learn I’m married. To a woman. I think she saw the earrings and assumed I was gay. (She did go on and on once about her gay uncle and how supportive of him she is.)
At a cocktail party last weekend, a woman asked if I had an “alter ego”. (To be fair, the host does, and she was aware of that.)
So, I think it’s time I trot out some responses and have them ready, because any day now, someone’s going to ask me “Why”. As in: “Why do you have both ears pierced?” And that person may not be someone I want to come out to.
So, when they ask, I’ll answer:
1. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
2. I’m probably dying young, so I had my mid-life crisis at age 33.
3. The piercing store had a special: Buy two, get one piercing free, and the other ear was the only place left.
4. The earrings help pick up the secret CIA transmissions. I can hear the voices in my head better.
5. Nunya. Nunya? Nunya damn business.
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And what about the hips? MSN Shopping has an “article”, (read: salespitch), on fashions for the larger woman. The gist is that designers are recognizing that not everyone is a size 2, and are acting appropriately, by making sexy clothes in bigger styles. (Read more here.) But, I looked at the fashions they recommended, and they’re still not all that great.
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I enjoy having my ears pierced. It seems to get the endorphin juices flowing or something.
I knew some people who used ear piercing as a rite of passage into woman hood. Their daughters were not allowed to have their ears pierced until they had had their first period. I had mine done on a trip to Cinncinati, Ohio for a Cross Port meeting. I stopped at the mall in Florence, KY and had it done. Besides attending the Cross Port meeting enfemme, I was staying enfemme for the long week end. I had a date with a friend for Friday and Saturday and thought it was an appropriate way to celebrate another step into becoming a woman.
It’s hard to believe, but I’ve had both my ears pierced for over twenty years ( the mid 80’s were an interesting time ! ) and both double pierced for nearly fifteen. I’ve never regreted doing it, and negative reactions have been minimal to nonexistant.
I work in the medical field, and while I don’t wear earrings to work, the holes have been noticed ( they’re never invisible, despite what some might say ) and the usual rection has been quite positive. If anything, it raises the “coolness” factor for an old codger – 50 – like me.
I would advise anyone who is even considering getting their ears pierced to do so. The reaction of most people will be incredibly underwhelming – your life will not crumble away into dust. If you’re really uneasy about it, get one ear pierced, let it heal while people get used to seeing it, then pierce the other and remove the first. Trust me, no one will notice, and even if they do, there’s always that midlife crisis excuse to fall back on.
I am a construction worker.I had both ears double pierced when I had some time off between jobs.I only wear my earrings on weekend when going out en-fem,or when dressing up at home on weekends or a week night week night or two.I have never had anyone say anything about my ears or my brows.Only an occasional comment about my growing hair
I am a teacher and i have both ears double pierced. no one on the staff has ever said a word.
the kids are cool with it and ask sometimes but i just tell them that i like them. by the way i teach in high school in the inner city.
I am a middle manager in a branch of a fairly large company in LA and I’ve had both ears pierced since I arrived on the job. I have no idea what people in the corporation think and no one has ever said anything about it. Now I know that living where I do is way different than living in, say, Des Moines. However I believe that if we present ourselves with pride and confidence, others will usually accept us as just another person with, perhaps, different tastes.
Maggie