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Sketchy Slunk Off in a Pwnd Pout

posted 7 years ago by WryGrin
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Sketchy could have made the most out of more air time by showing some game the way Gian and Kelly did. Sure, they didn't win either, but they got to show more of their work and gained esteem from the audience that will pay off in more professional success for as long as they remain in the industry. Sketchy will be remembered as the fussy prima donna who stormed off in a snit when he didn't get his way and realized he couldn't subjugate women with his sneering sexist whining. Sketchy wasn't protesting that the fix was in for a woman winner, he got his nose rubbed in the fact that the women there not only weren't intimidated by his hostility but were actually capable of doing better tats than he could.

His palm tattoo wasn't all that bad, as even though it looked dark and not easy to read: it will age and wear into more clarity. Everyone else there had to do palms that day. Sketchy seemed elated until he realized that no fewer than three women had done tats which were already more clear and appealing than his. Some people let a setback stop them, but others instead emerge more determined to learn from loss and improve.

He didn't manage his own emotions and his misogyny got the better of him. He quit because he didn't believe in his ability to produce quality tattoos and keep building his fan base. Perhaps he might have stuck around longer if it didn't bother him so much that he could be bested by a woman. He was unable to transcend the false dichotomy that it would be winning or nothing.

“What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.” - Martina Navratilova

“Waaah! Women did better tattoos! I'm taking my toys and going home!” - Coulda Been Sketchy Lawyer

[–] FactUnderChecK 7 years ago

You are so hypocritical. "Its not personslity master.. wah-wah-wah" .. until you want to bitch about sketchy of course. Then it can be personality master, politically correct master, militant feminist witch hunt master.. what ever you want.

realized he couldn't subjugate women with his sneering sexist whining.

maybe you show us which woman sketchy attempted to subjugate?
What comments he made about an inherent male superiority over women?

If not then i don't see why we should hold sketchy accountable for sexist comments you've invented from inside your own head.

[–] WryGrin 7 years ago

Calm yourself. Even if I were being hypocritical - which I'm not - that would be irrelevant to the discussion at hand, which is a tattoo quality competition. Perhaps you got the vapors before getting to the part where I mentioned that Sketchy's palm tattoo was not in fact all that bad, in a context of disappointment that more of Sketchy's work would not be seen even though he could have stayed and done more.

Maybe you missed the way Sketchy screeched about the "vagina card" and "emotions" when obviously not managing his own emotions at all well - which is actual hypocrisy, and sexist - or you just accepted that type of comment as normal because you don't understand what it is (certainly not a good idea at workplaces with HR departments). His getting called on it seems to bother you more than that he took that tack, which yet again confirms the type of systemic hostility which makes for unfair conditions for skilled women.

Anyway, it would seem that the obviously sexist commentary didn't faze the women and they went on to do much better art than Sketchy probably could have done, so we didn't miss out on much for his hasty, pissy, cowardly exit.

http://www.vice.com/read/this-season-of-ink-master-was-finally-all-about-the-women

[–] FactUnderChecK 7 years ago

Don't worry, im calm. I'm just letting you know you're full of sh!t :)

You wrote 3 extensive paragraphs about how misogynistic sketchy and apparently i also am. But all you actually did to back that nonsense up is put quotation marks around "vagina card" and "emotions".

The way you made your point so eloquently deserves a very.. very slow clap.

Bottom line here, you are doing a greater disservice to women and feminism than sketchy did. You didn't like sketchy.. fine. Using sexism arbitrarily as a tool to justify your personal feelings about sketchy is the kind of thing that detracts from the genuine issues woman face in the world. A distraction from valid discourse of the subject some might say.

[–] The-Demon 7 years ago

I think it all depends on how you look at it. It is an edited show so some stiff could hve happened we didn't see.

I think a lot of the guys were stupid to begin with. The women vs guy ratio wasn't even to begin with. They only had 5 women the whole season and 1 got eliminated first. By the time Sketchy quit someone was already out in that 4 girl alliance. They only had 3 girls left and one by one could have targeted them.

At the dame time if someone sees certain artists are being favored over others and constantly win a flash challenge or given a pass after pass and that person tries to target you then it gets frustrating.

BoneFace took it like a man. Erick claims he felt disrespected cuz he got out before him. But he has nothing to do with it. He was sick and had a bad tattoo he would have been sick regardless.

I didn't mind Sketchy saying the vagina card cuz it was true. At the jury of peers debate he told Nikki to shut up and rightfully so. She was constantly defending her alliance tattoo when clearly she was wrong because we all even said the girls tattoo was bad and I believe it's the one where Gia was elimated on.

And I know it's off topic but BoneFace technically did Nikki a favor. If he never made that comment we would have all thought she was 50.