Now that we are all digital immigrants living in a corporate town called Facebook, this is what neighborly favors look like in the year 2013: A tattoo shop in Ontario wanted to recognize a woman for her bravery and strength in overcoming breast cancer. Posting a photo of her chestpiece on their Facebook wall seemed like an OK way to tell friends about this woman. That is what Facebook is for, after all. Telling friends about interesting things. But Facebook, as tit-shy as it is, removed the photo. So the tattoo shop retaliated in a way they felt was, like, almost as brave and strong as surviving breast cancer: by courageously posting it to Facebook again in defiance.
Anyway, now it's all over the place: it currently has over 140,000 likes and 115,000 shares on Facebook. It's on blogs. It's on bigger blogs. Everybody in town has seen and commented on this lady's chest tattoo, basically. Sorry, Facebook, but Breast Cancer awareness always wins.
Custom Tattoo Designs can mark this one as a social media win as well: the photo came from a book called Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo. That doesn't cheapen the breast cancer message at all, but since we're here let's recognize artist Tina Baforo of Seattle for her work on the tattoo itself.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on Custom Tattoo Design's Facebook wall, concerned mothers weighed in on this photoshopped photo of a baby with tattoos:
