So, I was just spat at.

[RadioactiveTurtle]

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?

Edit:
I'll be honest, the thing that pissed me off the most was that I couldn't stand up for myself, he drove off too quick.

 

[Flamezdudes]

I've only ever seen people make jokes, nothing too extreme and nothing really serious either.

But I don't really know anyone who has red hair anyway. But that guy who did that to you is a dickhead.

 

[Private Custard]

I was never spat at for having red hair, but I did get into a few scuffles and take a lot of shit from a lot of people.

But hey, fuck it! Seeing as it's not only socially acceptable to take the piss out of red-haired people, but almost expected, I decided that I was going to come back at them just as hard. Disabled people, blacks, lesbians, sluts, vicars, football fans, people that can't say the letter 'w'.....everyone. I just take the piss out of anyone at any time, whenever I feel like it.

They can't complain, can they?!

 

[Jonluw]

That's, like, really weird.

I guess it goes without saying that I haven't seen anyone receive genuine hatred for having red hair.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

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.

 

[Wolfram23]

That's just unreal. I have to wonder where you live?

It's hard to believe people can be such stupid dickshits.

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

So cheer up! I'm sure you're a nice person and I know you don't deserve that crap.

As for me, I once had a pop or something get thrown out of a car at me when I walked home from school in high school, but they missed. Some idiot was half out of the car window and yelling like "whoooooo!" Basically they were retarded.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I'm sorry that happened to you.

Seems like that person had some serious anger issues...

I wasn't aware that red heads had it so tough.

 

[Dags90]

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

Well now there are too many fat kids, so there had to be some sort of substitute for making fun of the token fat kid in today's Supersized playground.

OT: Never seen anything like this, just the usual South Park references and firecrotch jokes.

 

[RadioactiveTurtle]

That's just unreal. I have to wonder where you live?

It's hard to believe people can be such stupid dickshits.

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

So cheer up! I'm sure you're a nice person and I know you don't deserve that crap.

As for me, I once had a pop or something get thrown out of a car at me when I walked home from school in high school, but they missed. Some idiot was half out of the car window and yelling like "whoooooo!" Basically they were retarded.

I live in Stoke-On-Trent, England.
Possibly the worst place to live within England, and nothing like a place where I would like to live.

 

[Wolfram23]

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

I dunno about the guys but red headed girls are almost always hot as fuck.

Especially when they (she) are (is a) petite cheerleaders for the local CFL team. Huuunnghh

 

[Scarim Coral]

Geez, sure I had a couple of racial remarks in the past (one was just going into the town centre as some idiot in a car shout it out as he drove by and another by two chavs teen toward my flat in Uni) but not that extreme.

 

[TheTim]

I can feel where you're coming from as I too have red hair. That kind of shit never happens to me though, and if it did, i would permanently mess the guys face up and make him an ugly bastard, then when he was walking down the street i would hock a fat lugie straight in his face and get a lot of ladies to laugh at his ugliness

 

[Colour Scientist]

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.

 

[senordesol]

What? I don't even...

I thought Ginger hate was just a South Park joke. This is a thing? What the hell? I mean what the actual hell?

This boggles my mind. I find red hair freakin' sexy...Blue hair too, but at least that's a choice. I mean...why? What reason could there possibly be?

 

[LetalisK]

People are horrible, terrible creatures. The sooner you accept this, the sooner they will no longer surprise or disappoint you.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

A girl I knew got punched in the face by a random guy because she had red hair. Yup.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Jesus, people can pick on you for even the littlest differences, can?t they? I mean, whenever my friends and I make fun of our ginger friend, it?s always in harmless jest. Never thought there was actual ?ginger-ism?, aside from the odd exceptions that fucking hair colour is that important to some people. Humans are a fucked-up species.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Well, I've often been insulted due to being a guy with long hair, but nothing ever as extreme or ridiculous as that. God damn.