Correct. It’s also culturally-defensible (and defended) self-harm in a way that cutting and anorexia are not. It’s just mental illness; has nothing to do with the claimed “owning my body” or “keeping away evil men.”

Though it is pretty hilarious when it does in fact repel those top 1% men they think they deserve. Love that. It makes me laugh a lot at how very enraged the horribly-disfigured tattooed women become when they realize that has happened.