I'm 6'6" and right around 210 pounds. If anyone is saying derogatory things about my appearance, they haven't been doing it face-to-face.
My folks were out to visit me and my wife recently, and the only question my mom had was about my most recent tattoo. She didn't recognize it from their last visit, and I guess my dad didn't show her the pix I posted on Facebook from my inking session. So we talked about the tat and my bike team and my artist (the tat is my bike team logo, and my artist is on the team and created the logo). And we chatted about my ears and how much further I might go with them, and while she's not super-keen on the idea, she understands the significance of it to me.
I think their reasoning is: He's got a good job, lives in a nice building, has an awesome wife, a great dog, doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs, races bicycles for a hobby, and is almost 40 so it's not like we can send him to his room if we don't like it so we may as well accept it.