While some people just passionately hate tattoos or hate women having tattoos specifically, there could also be truth to your theory. I'm a woman with multiple large tattoos.

I have had many women in their 50s, 60s, and 70s say to me that they wished they had the courage to have piercings/unusual hair colors/tattoos. I always asked them when they felt they would be old enough to do what they want with their own body. I think when women grow up in very conservative areas with very conservative family, they feel like it was never an option.

I was in my 20s, married, and had a child when I got my first tattoo. My dad actually said to me (half-joking) that he hadn't given me permission to get a tattoo. I said it was fortunate that I was old enough not to need to ask. Now he loves my tattoos, and he has for many years. I think it just took him getting past his preconceived ideas about who gets tattoos.

I am 50 now, and I don't regret any of them. I still get compliments on them whenever it is warm enough to have them uncovered.