Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : I’m very heavily tattooed considering my age (F20), with a full sleeve, blacked out neck, chest tattoo etc. as well as stretched ears and piercings. Split tongue isn’t visible unless shown. I like to wear pretty revealing clothing as I just feel more comfortable doing so.

Right now I’m in a country on the Gold Coast and forced to socialize with everyone I live here with (from the same home country).
There’s a guy who has a general distaste for me. I’ve had a hard time figuring out exactly why, but know it’s not in my head since I’ve asked a couple others and they’ve observed it too. He’s around 60, so there’s a considerable age gap.

A couple of days ago we got into an argument. I stated: “I’m of course not criticizing person X for how he sees tattoos, it’s a very personal thing, just glad he couldn’t see all of mine since our beliefs differ”, to which he replied “No no, I’m criticizing YOU.”
Oh okay.

The bickering back and forth, to sum it up, went something like this:

According to him I’m “walking around all the time provoking people, not considerate of how others can feel about my tattoos, should cover myself absolutely everywhere I ever go (when I brought up our very liberal European home country he stuck to his guns), should actually think about and respect people, not taking others into consideration at all, should always respect there can be ONE person that doesn’t like it, clearly craved the attention because otherwise I would just cover them up, YOU ARE PROVOKING PEOPLE”.
My points were: “You’ve seen that invited over I’m always considerate enough to try to cover myself (skirts down to my ankles &amp; shirts that show no cleavage), I haven’t gotten any bad reactions here and several local people are tattooed as well as people from our home country constantly being here, I’m not going to cover myself everywhere I go just because it might mess with one single persons beliefs never have never will, I can’t consider every single persons opinion, you know I have severe anxiety I just have accepted this will draw people in and I generally avoid eye contact so I don’t really notice the looks”.

I was as civil as possible considering I live with this guy even though I was fuming inside. Even though this was my life choice I don’t feel I should have to take into consideration that another adult can’t deal with other people being different than them in my day to day life, I felt it was extremely rude to suggest I do so. Another person cut the conversation off because they saw it was going south fast.

However, I’ve noticed I have an ability to miss out on some social cues, so I’m worried I might be the asshole in refusing to always consider other people’s beliefs in public. So AITA?

TL;DR: Guy tells heavily tattooed me I should always cover my body for the sake of all other people’s beliefs, I outright refuse the idea.