The way women are represented in the tattooing community can be summed up in a phrase from Skindeep, 'The message is often crystal clear, yet tacitly impllied: either go the cute route or the sexy route with your tatooos, but don't expect to be taken seriously either way.' This quote shows that the tattooing community won't take women seriously no matter what they do, this is also highlighted in the way that Skindeep construct their covers, the women are often seen in stereotypically vunerable poses. For example in September 2011 (pictured here: http://www.skindeep.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/2colwidth/attached/sd202.jpg) the woman is shown as being in the vunerable position even though she has her hands up to protect herself it still portrays to a man that they would need to come and save her, which is ridiculous. These attitudes are extremely plain to see in the tattooing community, the attitude towards woman is extremely demeaning and is quite frankly like something you'd expect to see in a documentary about life in the 1950's where women were given two routes to go down and it was a common belief that no one would dare to stray from the route. God forbid that they ever even considered showing a man on the cover in this way, SkinDeep enforces the idea that all men are strong and willing to get meaningful tattoos and all women are fit for are to be scribbled upon by 'cutsie' artists with things such as My Little Pony and Hello Kitty.