This includes race, orientation etc.
2007-05-13 02:40:39 · 10 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I was thrown eggs and said "yellow monkey"
Two grown men throw me a penny and said "poor Asian"
Old guy came to me and said "Asian guy shouldn't get into this swimming pool because you guys are dirty"
And many more. Most of those things were happened by White guys to me who is Asian and under 9 years old. My best friend is White guy and those things doesn't bother me anymore although I was obsessed and sad.
2007-05-13 03:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Include age combined with youthful energy. I am 58, but a highly skilled worker with multiple software skills. I can out perform any twenty something at computer skills. But no one will hire me because 'old people don't know about those things...'
Agism is the most extreme and socially destructive bigotry in our society, because it represents people mistreating other on the basis of something that we will all go through if we are healthy enough to endure into our older years.
Do you practice it? Most younger people do.
2007-05-13 09:46:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well... when we lived in Baltimore near Federal Hill, people tried to poison our dogs, painted swastikas on the side of our house, and according to one nice neighbor they were conspiring to try to plant drugs in our house to try to get us arrested. When I was a kid, two other kids tried to kill me by throwing me down the concrete stairs of the football stadium. .... Take your pick, I could go on and on about it. I am sure they were all *good* Christians.
I agree with the guy above. I worked as a software engineer for over 19 years. Now over 50, no one will hire me. Is that worse than someone trying to kill me, perhaps, because without a job the result will be the same.
2007-05-13 10:15:08 · answer #3 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Primarily some verbal ridicule for being gay. Most of this has come from strangers who were heckling crowds of gay people. Some of it came from my parents when I first came out (30 years ago).
Luckily, I have never faced employment or housing discrimination, primarily because of my field and the region of the country where I live.
2007-05-13 10:44:09 · answer #4 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
On an individual basis the worst people have treated me is by cramming their religion down my throat and threatening me with eternal damnation for being who I was born. I have been called ridiculous names and had stupid stereotyped gestures made at me.
I won't even go into the governmental abuse or past history.
2007-05-13 09:47:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I was stoned and chased by three
christians when I was 15 years old
because they suspected I was gay.
After that incident, I took up boxing.
I am not a fan of physical violence,
but I'll be damned if I will not defend
myself when needed.
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2007-05-14 16:22:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being called a peado just because I am gay. Having a guy hold a gun to my head and threaten to kill me, Racial abuse
2007-05-14 17:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi my boss used to call me a shirt lifter, he got fired
2007-05-13 10:08:51 · answer #8 · answered by pete m 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
when i was about 8 and my brother 7, grown men in a car chased us home yelling ****** at us.
2007-05-13 09:45:41 · answer #9 · answered by CHELLE BELLE 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was fired for being gay.
2007-05-13 11:18:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋