anyone insult your dreads?

LOL do you realize your on a dread forum?? :huh:

I haven't gotten any insults yet. But then again, I haven't gotten any compliments yet either. Maybe because I'm 6' 2" and maybe they're scared of me or something? haha. But if anyone insults you, just remember, it's their problem, not yours.

 

i've never gotten any insults... i had one of my clients (i worked with mentally retarded adults) when i had just first backcombed tell me "hey lady, you need to brush your hair, it looks like the birds live in it" but that was just funny as hell! i also randomly get little snot nosed rasta wanabee kids walk up and go "hello, my brother," like i'm rasta just because i have locks. it just makes me laugh! oh, and i got me and my car searched in oklahoma, just because of the locks i'm pretty sure. he just couldn't figure out why i didn't have at least a little bud on me lol!!!

 

gotta love stereotypes.... :huh:

 

Only from my family.
They say they look like dog turds, or dog tails.

Everyone else likes them, though.

 

i somethimes turn a attemption to insult me on my dreads in a compliment somehow. i actually don't mind the comments that i can't even remember one concrete occassion in which i was insulted on my dreads. i've better things to do than to be fed up with stuff like that you know.

 

some of my neighbours ( I live in a tower block) who usually smile and stop to say hi, are avoiding me these days. Nothing about me has changed, just my hair.

 

I had a lady make some rather mean-spirited remarks just yesterday while riding the bus to work. She was sitting behind me with a friend of hers, and tapped me on the shoulder. She then asked if I was wearing a wig--I told her no, that it's my real hair. Then she told me I should do something with it, saying that it looked like "A breeding ground for disease" (her words of course.) I turned and explained to her that they're actually very clean, that hair won't dread properly if it's dirty. She then asked me 'Why in the world would I want my hair to look like that"--I told her I like how it looks, and that I'm doing it for me, not for anyone else. She kept this nasty-looking look on her face, so I just told her to be careful, her ignorance was showing

 

:lol:

 

a group of young girls was walkin by yesterday and 1 said hi santa clause lol thought it was cute

 

soaring man, are your dreads still as long as in the sig?

I wish santa had those!

 

cant say i have gotten any rude comments... course being in asheville north carolina if you dont have dreads your just a nazi lol its true

 

haha dont worry about it. aywhere i go i get abuse or bottles thrown at me for having dreads. also because of them and my love for the outdoors im usually reffered to as the caveman by everyone in college...a title i hold proudly

 

It is quite odd as I remember before I got my dreads, I always saw people with dreads as such cool, unique people and I envied them for having dreads. Since I've had them, I have learned that not everyone shares the same viewpoint lol.

 

Same here. Though I haven't seen anyone be insulted and I haven't been insulted yet for having dreads (still at the start of my journey). Though being in the California bay area, dreads aren't exactly an uncommon sight. So maybe thats why I haven't heard any insults.

I wonder what it must be like to have dreads and live in an extremely conservative area. I can't imagine living in, say, Idaho (just a random place I assume would fit the bill) and having dreads, you really would get stares and who knows what else. In the end though, you truely would be a light shining through mediocrity.

 

I've found that if I smile all the time people tend to be less unkind. Cheers

 

nah that was a year ago most are longer a few wore off from draggin on the ground so are 8 inches to 2 feet shorter

 

You, sir, are a man of legend. Dreads so long that they drag on the ground is a level few ever reach. I can only dream that one day I'll be able to walk among you elusive few.

I say legend becasue you have not put yourself on such a high pedestoal that you don't bother to help others. Your the exact opposite.

 

My step-dad said this about me behind my back last week:

"He's not MY son, but he needs to cut that wannabe ****** hair and get a job!"

So yeah.. Just thought that might be relevant to the thread.

 

I've already posted in this thread but I feel compelled to post again because of an incident that occurred at the laundromat at like two in the morning recently. I walked in with two huge bags of laundry and some guy was sitting there and he looked at me and said, "You look rough!" I was like, "I'm not rough. Why do I look rough?" He said, "Your hair.... I dunno." I didn't really know how to take it, but now it amuses me.

 

Thats rough