So, I was just spat at.

[Powereaver]

The only time people seem to insult me these days is driving past in cars lol .. so i guess they dont risk a punch to the face cowards.

Being a redhead never seems to get many bad insults here.. just the usual Carrot-top or they're slightly crazy shenanigans, that and redheads can be hot so who's complaining?

 

[thylasos]

You were spat at because the bloke was a ****. it has nothing to do with you. Take your solace in having far better relationships and probably life prospects.

 

[Goofguy]

Now, personally this is just an extreme of what I usually experience...

You usually experience such ridiculous harassment? I have never picked on or even seen a redhead be picked on.

I have absolutely no idea what to say except wow, there are a lot of assholes in this world with nothing better to do with their time.

 

[370999]

I really doubt it was because of your hair. From the sounds of it he was just a bored asshole trying to show off. If you were brunette he would have found another excuse, "nice shoes, ****", "fat ****", "skinny ****", "average weight ****", you get the idea.


Those kinds of things rarely have anything to do with the victim if both are complete strangers. I've been beeped at, yelled at, propositioned, fucking everything (like a lot of my friends) and it's just because the other person has nothing to do with their time and wants a bit of attention.

Pretty much this.

I'm sure all of this get used to it. The amount of times people have just yelled out "****" to me as they were passing by is baffling in it's size.

 

[DanielBrown]

When I was younger I often got shit for being a metalhead. When I walked alone and passed some gang of kids they'd shout at me, spit after me and being douches.
Then I became almost two meters tall with a rather athletic build, as well as constantly looking pretty bitter.

No one has bothered me since.

 

[Pharsalus]

Damn dude that is crazy, maybe south park really is having a negative impact on society. No one deserves to be spit at, even the soulless.

 

[Risingblade]

Wait people really hate red heads? All this time I though it was just a joke.

 

[Daveman]

Well on behalf of humanity I'm sorry. Some of us are alright, I promise.

A little bit of joshing is not a huge issue generally speaking. I know I get it for being short and a chronic masturbator (i.e. somebody who spends any amount of time on the internet, in their room according to my friends). Being ginger is just another one of those things. And then there are the pricks who have no sense of humour at all...

 

[bobajob]

As a natural redhead myself this seems to be something very much ingrained in the culture of Britain, as someone already mentioned. This is naturally abused in school.

So my time in high school was a barrel of larfs as a geeky, skinny, bespectacled redhead.....

I saw a lot of people I knew in school at my old job before I moved South, & most of 'em were still giant douches; As in they had the mental age of a 14-year-old in their mid-20's.

Then there's always that one dickhead that thinks it's OK to bash other redheads because they are, in fact, themselves a redhead. I mean, come on....

 

[EvilMaggot]

Redheads are cool. I used to have a huuuuuuge crush on this one I worked with. Dark red hair and freckles... ...

Yeah, seriously man. I don't get all the hate toward red heads. I dunno about the guys but red headed girls are almost always hot as fuck.

Something of a rarity in Germany... Don't think I've ever seen a natural red head over here.

God fucking damn this Aryan master race with it's stupid blond hair.

Haha the last part made me giggle! Yeah here in Denmark we got a good amount of Red Heads and .. YUM! whenever i see one

But ive never experienced that kind of behaviour at all in Denmark.. not even jokes or anything like that.

 

[Ashannon Blackthorn]

I really doubt it was because of your hair. From the sounds of it he was just a bored asshole trying to show off. If you were brunette he would have found another excuse, "nice shoes, ****", "fat ****", "skinny ****", "average weight ****", you get the idea.


Those kinds of things rarely have anything to do with the victim if both are complete strangers. I've been beeped at, yelled at, propositioned, fucking everything (like a lot of my friends) and it's just because the other person has nothing to do with their time and wants a bit of attention.

I reckon this. I've had that happen to me a few times. One time I got fortunate and found the guy about 10 minutes later at a gas station. Him and his buddy were outside having a smoke. Both of them were small slight guys. I'm 6'2 and about 300 pounds and look pretty much like a biker. Needless to say when i saw them I didn't mind having a word with them. when they saw me, one guy ran into the car and took off and left the other behind. (which I thought was priceless) I asked the other what the deal was and all he could say was just being stupid please don't hit me.

Sheesh... and no, I didn't hit him. the one that drove off was the one that made the original comment.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Yeah, seriously man. I don't get all the hate toward red heads. I dunno about the guys but red headed girls are almost always hot as fuck.

Hit the nail on the head there. I mean at first i was like "fair enough red headed GIRLS are hot but what about dudes". Then it struck me red headed guys are the reason red headed girls exist. If you want a future with red headed girls be nice to gingers. And a future without red headed freckled girls is a future i dont want to live in.

 

[Grimh]

I bet he was jealous.
Overcome with frustration over his shortcomings and lacking the mental fortitude not to be influenced by an adult cartoon show, he just had to lash out at the nearest person blessed with the most awesome of all the natural hair colours.

So the only way he could have lashed out was obviously acting like an immature chicken-shit asshole, who's attempt at mockery only comes of as dreadfully pathetic.
I mean, really? Yelling out an insult and then quickly running away? That's like something you might see in fourth grade. What a fucking tool.

 

[Dangit2019]

I make ginger jokes to my red-headed friends constantly, but I could never imagine actual hatred for a people of different hair color. I always thought that redheads only got discriminated in the elementary playground, not in real life as if they're extremely different from everyone else.

 

[Richardplex]

Redheads are cool. I used to have a huuuuuuge crush on this one I worked with. Dark red hair and freckles... ...

Yeah, seriously man. I don't get all the hate toward red heads. I dunno about the guys but red headed girls are almost always hot as fuck.

Something of a rarity in Germany... Don't think I've ever seen a natural red head over here.

God fucking damn this Aryan master race with it's stupid blond hair.

I think it's purely red headed guys who get the hate. "F*** off, I'm ginger" went into that a bit.

 

[Chalacachaca]

I've been spat at, throw juice at, car splashed, all because... well the guy's in a car and I'm walking, so it's helluva fun thing to do when you're in a car.

And insults? well when I was like 9 years old, my brother pushed me into the pavement, then a car passed near us and the cardriver yelled at me "GET OFF THE GROUND YOU STUPID FUCK!". And my mother was present at the time, she just told us to settle down, both my old brother who was annoying me, and myself who was having a child trauma.
Later, when I was 13 I used to dress with KoRn t-shirts, System of a Down, and because of that I was targeted by other people of my age and older people mostly... well, any north american or brit here can say "Well duh, that same thing happened to me" but allow me to say that, I'm from a south american country, the backlash to any kind of rock n' roll is HIGH. Some people even cosider The Beatles to be satanic music... THE FUCKING BEATLES.

And it hasn't stopped, even though I'm 24 year old man, and dressing with just a pair of old jeans, a plain t-shirt and a flannel shirt on top of that, I still got called a "matricidur" by a cyclist.

Sometimes I get rare looks for looking like a foreigner or being "too white", and I'm not talking about the way I act, but my actual skin colour. Well at least those looks don't hurt or come with a nice spit.

 

[renegade7]

Well there's the whole "Gingers don't have souls" thing from South Park, but I've never known of anyone actually being hated for it. I kinda figured they were just joking and playing on Cartman's perpetual and completely irrational hatred of everything.

Guy was probably messed up in the head or something. I would just let it go.

 

[The Floating Nose]

For having red hair.

I was just walking home, with my hood down minding my own business and this idiot pulled up next to me, called me a "Ginger C***" and spat at me before speeding off. Now, personally this is just an extreme of what I usually experience, name calling, rude jestures, bullying, whatever; I'm used to that by now. But this, this just got to me. This just for having red hair, it baffles me.

Have you guys ever seen anything like this in your home town?

Something somewhat similar happened a few years ago in my hometown [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/24/hit-a-jew-day-at-st-louis_n_137450.html]

I'm going to have to say that I don't really understand the "bully redheads" movement either.

It probably comes from some fucking no-good-piece-of-shit fucking asshole...cum burping son of a ***** who takes too seriously what South Park says. Don't get me wrong, i love South Park... BUT IT'S FUCKIN' COMEDY !!!

Sorry if i got carried away, this story really got to me for some reason.

 

[Riddle78]

A bit. I grew up on a military base out in the middle of Buttfuck Nowhere,Ontario (Properly known as CFB Petawawa). I was a bit of a loner,and a major geeknerd. I also taken a wood shop class for two years in a row. One day,at the end of class,one guy though it would be a FUN idea to spit in my face for no apparent reason. Everyone saw. I knee'd him in the groin,punched him in the gut,and walked away to wipe the spit off. I got in shit for that incident. I may have overreacted,but if someone feels that they can get away with spitting on someone's face...

One year later,someone thought it would be a fun idea to lock me in a storage room. The door was made of pressboard,and the lock was on the outside. A padlock. I saw the door close,so I ran to the door to keep it open. It closed first,and I heard someone fiddling with the lock. This was the first period of the day,by the way. So,I give the door a mighty leaping boot. It bursts open,and the "eye" for the lock on the door hit the bastard on the upper lip,splitting it. Guess who got in shit for that one,too?

That was all at school. Outside of school,I stayed home. I was,and still am,a gamer. So,no fucked up bullshit outside of school. Just remember,though; if people feel the need to make the lives of others miserable,then their lives are utterly devoid of happiness and meaning otherwise.