anyone insult your dreads?

My dad teases me alot.
I think its because im school and alot of them are narrow minded pea brained loosers with skin heads.
xo

 

hmm.
the one that hit me the hardest is when these random bogans drove passed me and said "cut off your shitlocks"

 

awww. ignore it, we all know you're cooler than them

my dad called me swampy for a while, after some infamous english eco warrior apparently. didn't mind too much.
this guy: http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/X/x/what_can_i_do_about_it/the_young_ones/6.html
i think he's great.

and when i had wool dreads (rainbow!) i heard some one sing that shitty song by mcfly as i walked by, yknow 'doo doo doo ..that weirdo with five colours in her hair'

 

A lot of people (like my mom and my friends and some random little girl once) tell me to brush my hair, but that's all I've gotten. So far....

 

oops double post!

 

well last night, i got a real treat
i walked into a pub i have never been in, i had my big suitcase with me that i use to carry my frames and prints. a guy at the bar asked me where i had been selling the big issue. (dont get me wrong, i have zero problem with big issue vendors they're mostly fab people). when i replied that i dont sell the big issue, he asked what work i was looking for!!
i told him i work my fucking ass off all day picking up recycling and am a freelance photographer, so if it was ok by him i would stick with just the 2 jobs!! what a prick!
the landlord got a bit arsey with the guy and told him he expects newcomers to the pub to get a warm welcome and not abuse, so that was cool. and when i got the whiskey i ordered it was a double, so either the landlord was extra nice or mr moron-dickweed felt bad.
and my dreadies were all tied up in a posh do, i shant bother making the effort next time!

 

Your right big issue people are lovely! I hate when people assume if you have dreadlocks and your scruffy, there just as clean!
My mum keeps telling me i need tgo improve on my personal hygene when i wash my hair more than her!
Some people have major attitude problems.
xo

 

I know it's not dreads, but when I got my nose pierced, my friends mum said I looked like a slut and whore. She then didn't let me in her house.

 

wow! that's tuff stuff willow...i'd rather look like a slut whore than a big meanie hater...your friends mamma needs to have her heart chakra blasted open. i cringed when i read that...blah...shake it off.

i had a woman come up behind me on the morning train and grab my locks and said in an extremely loud voice, "what's a white girl like you doing with dreads locks?" she surprised me not to mention...she was loud on a very quiet morning train ride. once we started talk'n i realized she was truly just curious and not trying to be mean. now that my dreads are long i don't get anymore insults...only compliments to my face...i still hear folks giggling here and there...but never to my face.

 

hmm.. no not really. once had a guy shout from a car that it looked like i had an octopus on my head. that actually made me smile.

little kids always tell me i need to brush my hair and my kids hair.

 

yup...my father called me a pirate (not sure if that is an insult or not though)...friends were like "ew...doesnt that mean you have bugs in your hair?"
stuff like that.
and from chris...a constant "i want your old hair" "your dreads are so ugly" crap like that.

 

haha,
I read ALL of those,
and I find it funny with how closed-minded people ca be

I can't wait to get called funny names like that lol

I am not easily insulted so it'll be all fun for me

 

It is always a sad moment when people judge you by such a minor surface alteration. It is especially sad when they already know you before you get it done yet when you do get it done, you've somehow automatically become (or now represent) a nasty stereotype.

I have some family members who now tell me that I have a "black persons hair style" and that I better stay away from the weed (because the dreads instantly made me a Rastafarian apparently). I was quite shocked and saddened that people that I'm related to that have known me for my whole life now treat me a bit different because of my hair. One family member actually doesn't even talk to me anymore, I haven't changed as a person so I'm assuming its the dreads. They really dislike long hair etc and my dreads aren't exactly short.

 

My dreads just seem to be met with curiosity rather than anything else. I had a group of 8-9 year old girls surround me one day asking the usual questions then one piped up with 'but how will you ever get a boyfriend' just made me giggle as i get more attention from my preferred sort of man than i ever did before.

My dad calls me sideshow bob because i have auburn hair too and i tend to get people singing bob marley tunes to me randomly in the street.

 

LoL, got one from a kid today..."Yah Mon". Sometimes I wish dreadlocks weren't so correlated with Rasta (my personal opinion anyway as I'm not the slightest bit Rasta)

 

I work in retail so day in day out I'm meeting new people and have to answer the questions we all know over and over. at first I'd notice people staring at my hair when I was talking to them, I don't know if they still stare or if I stopped noticing.

Its not an insult (more of a running joke now) but when I stared working there two weeks into being on the floor someone snuck a bob marley cd into the store's music cd changer. It only happened after I told a co-worker that I didn't even really like reggae.

there waaas this really old really mean spiteful italian lady who demanded I cut off my hair cause I was shaming my italian heritage. she came back a week later to make sure I cut it off and demanded some more that I cut it off.

 

yeah..i'm a massage therapist and sometimes folks come in not knowing what to expect...you know first time getting a massage and then coping with getting a massage from a "freak".

naw...some of them think i'm a space shaman or something...it's kinda funny actually

 

I would have thought someone with some cool dreads would get more compliments, but that's probably just because I always comment on a set of nice dreads myself. I guess someone in a suit with 'em would look a tad unprofessional, but hey, hair's hair, should wear it how you like it. Hell, I'd like them for college

 

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I haven't gotten any insults yet..

but I did have a teacer practically hold me innt he bathroom for 15 minutes just to talk aabout my hair
haha

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