Ever been ridiculed for your hippie tendencies?

I have....so Friday I walked into the class that I absolutely loath, Geometry. And I hate to say it cause I'm not one to go around stereotyping people, but that class is full of what some might call "ghetto black chicks" and those girls just flat out don't like me cause, well I'm not sure why, maybe because I'm different. Anyway, I walk in class and they start making fun of me saying, "oh, she look like one of those tree lovin' people"..."them crazy people who stand in front of bulldozers and shit....OMG NO this tree is my best friend". It doesn't bother me one bit...because I actually do love trees and maybe one day I will be in front of that bulldozer, but it's just so funny that they go around wearing shirts that say "Think Green" and "Peace" and they're half assing it cause they really don't care. Why wear statements that you don't care about?
So what about you? Any ridicule experience?

 

Well I live on a floor where everyone is either a gym-head, who all walk around without shirts on, flexing, showing off their 'tats' that say "rebel" or "Ace" or something tough, or people who spend more time in the bathroom in the morning than my mom before a wedding, gelling their hair, popping their collars, and ironing their pants.

Every day/night they blast their rap, which I wouldn't mind at all, I think people are totally entitled to their opinion, but they blast it so everyone on the floor can hear it. My roommate is like this too. I don't mean to come off as disrespectful at all because I'm all for personal opinion. He blasts BET till midnight and any time I play classic rock they ridicule me for 'living in the 60s'

They make fun of me for not having any shirts with collars, or 15 pairs of shoes, wearing mocosans in the winter and sandals in the summer, wearing tie dye, liking jazz.

I've been looking for the right thread to vent the following so thank you:

My roommate is completely anti-weed. He thinks it ruins lives, kills, stuff like that. He's also not afraid to say what's on his mind, and over eggagerate everything. So I come back from smoking, got my bowl in my pocket, a gift from a friend. I start unlocking my door and he comes up and starts getting in my face saying "You smoke? I know you did. You smell like it, take off them clothes" and proceeds to take my hoodie off me and starts lifting my shirt off me, everyone in the hallway watching and laughing, then I manage to get in the room and he throws my hoodie down the hall, drags me back outside and starts tearing my shirt off again. I get in the room and lock the door. After he goes back to his friend's room, I go outside to get my hoodie and find my bowl shattered to pieces in my pocket. It was like an 8 inch glass bowl and when I brought it up to him he said "well you gotta stop anyway". I understand his concern and its heartfelt, but I just met him a month and a half ago and he's forcing his life style on me. I like smoking, it relaxes me. And I don't rip his speakers out when he's blasting rap saying "you gonna stop blasting this now. Listen to the Grateful Dead now."

But yeah people need to let other people live. If you don't want to be friends with someone because of their views or style, so be it. But there's no reason to ridicule someone for it

 

ridicule is the weapon of the hypocrite
and the idiot

you say theyre ghetto kids well i lived in that worlkd what do they see every day but theyrebneighbourhoods becomming toxic waste dumps they see people throw reash on the ground unches from atrash can they see people abandioning cars in empty lots and piles of tradsh dumped everywhere they see

they feel utterly powerless to do anything about it so they give up and riduclule those that actualy might try to change
a tree? how dare you care about a tree when they have none when every tree they do have has a pile of needles under it because its used for a hiding spot to shoot up
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i can tell you from experience..if you gop alonbe imnto theyre neighbourhood and spend several days pocking up trash and planting seeds they will no longer riducule you but instead respect you..and join you too
they feel like noone cares noone gives a shit about the trashheep they live in why should they care about a tree in a far off wood they will never get to see in theyre lifetime

but you bring the peace the greenness into theyre world..and they will care



biuyt 10 years ago i started lots of love.. we took over well bad word they gave us theyre entire neighbourhood a drug infested trash filled crime ridden hell hole of crumbling buildings empty lots fiulled with trash prostittes junkies craxkheads roaming the streets and 10 year olds carrying guns and throwing stones at any1 they thought didnt belong..
at 1st it wa just me and a freind then a few more joined in we picked up the trash dug up the lots and turned the while block into gardens that quickly became the safest place in the city...because they cared..the kids all changed and blossimerd the drugs went away out of sught trush was never tossed around randomly and random strangers stopped by to vare for the place..


what im saying isd..show you care.. bit just for a far away tree in a place they'll never be..but in theyre backyards work in some small way to maker theyre lives better and the ridicule will quicly becomne respect

 

My family tells me to shut up when I talk about how only rich white men are running my university. I tell them I have a right to voice my opinions. I also hate when you are in a class with a certain kind of people who are closed minded and make fun of you.

 

You can start saying back
But ah no just don't care or don't say anything that mean...
Cause you know agains't fire with fire...

 

they used to call me a bum when i wanted to hit the road

 

Was walking down the street the other day, and some guys asked me in a mocking tone if I was going to the circus (since I had my juggling toys and all of that). Couldn't help myself, I had to reply "No, I am the circus".

 

every day for the last 30 yrs! get use to it, it will never stop!

 

not here

 

yes...almost every time I'm in babylon someone makes some snarky comment and I can see right through them and that freaks them out sometimes.

 

I currently attend Michigan Tech University, which is in Houghton, Michigan. This is in the northern tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Everyone here is conservative beyond belief. The fact that I wear a head band blows everyones mind. Its interesting being up here and listening to people giving me shit about being a hippie, bu they all know its respecatble and cant do anything about it. I guess its nice to be different than the rest and to prove a point in doing so.

 

It's not too bad at school at the moment. Sometimes I get ridiculed by my science teachers but I don't mind too much. My friends, especially for the past half year or something, have become very sweet, and very open to my opinions and actions. So if something like that does happen they get pretty protective of me.
Even when it does happen it's not too bad, I get over it pretty quickly coz I don't care much what those people think

peace and love
Jane

 

i get crap all the time, but it sparks conversation if you learn to not take it to heart. just smile and say "thanks for noticing".

 

My friends make fun of tie dye and constantly tell me to shave. They're just kidding though. i've never actually been made fun of for being unique.

 

yeah, i get what those girls are giving you at school too.
as soon as you walk into the class room there is some remark about you and trees
... and i love it!

at first.. it would make me cry! (this is over a year ago) because i didn't understand why people were being so harsh towards me because of my love for well, everything!
and then i figured it out.. those people run on fear.. and whenever there is something 'unknown' or 'different' infront of them, they have to attack it.

so now, i usually will join in and laugh at it.

and it reassures me at the same time!

their minds are just closed.

 

yes

 

I've been called a "dirty hippie" and when I asked why I was dirty, they responded by saying that hippies were responsible for the AIDS pandemic.

I was kind of in a bad mood, so it cheered me up to hear something so obscene. =p

 

yea that's the conclusion i usually come to with them, not only are they
afraid to be different but they're afraid of those who aren't afraid to be different and are different. It bothers me the way they act sometimes, but not that they call me a tree hugger, because i will hug the shit out of a tree. I guess I have to accept who they are and not try to change them, but offer my knowledge and join in on the laughter.

 

i totally get you on the 15 pairs of shoes....
and your welcome, that was really great venting you did there.
great example of what I'm talking about.

 

yes i do but no where more than on this site ironically...