Since I keep dating myself

Growing up in what at the time was "The Submarine Capitol of the World", Groton Connecticut, (We had the U.S. Submarine Base (with deep sea rescue), and the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics), I saw a lot of Tattoos. Tattoos were something sailors had, simply because they had seen the world and many the wars (In 1965 World War II was only 20 years earlier, Korea was 10 years earlier and Vietnam was Now). the only other place you saw tattoos was on bikers, because bikers were bad. Tattoos set these men apart from the rest of the world, it showed they were special in one way or another. So growing up you had no plans on having any ink unless you were to go one of the afore mentioned directions. 

Now, everyone has ink, hell even kids are pierced and inked. Ink no longer makes you a bad ass, Ink no longer sets you apart, ink doesn't mean you are a rebel or special, it just means you paid somebody to inject ink in your skin. when I was young there were "no" tattoos on women, if it were there it wasn't shown in decent areas, now it seems women out ink the guys...

So does this mean that, the rebels of today...those that want to stand out ...don't ink?