Does Tattoos the artists gender matter?

Now that TLC is giving equal time to the “Miami Ink” and “LA Ink” crowds (essentially, a male shop vs. a female shop) I’m beginning to wonder if people have preferences for one gender artist over the other. For a long time, the number of female tattoo artists was vanishingly small compared to that of males. That was understandable, because tattoo parlors themselves tended to have mostly male