Hey Pandas, What's The Most Discriminating Thing That Has Happened To You? (Closed)

Well...It was in 4th grade and me and one of my friends (who was a guy) got in an argument. He tried to hit me and the entire class said he couldn't hit me bc I was a girl and it was illegal. He said I technically wasn't a girl bc I was a tomboy with short hair...We are not friends anymore.

Before I start I am sorry for spelling errors I am dyslexic If you kindly point them out I can fix them. So I live close to the city and one day me and my family went to get high tea in the city. I love long flowy dress's but that day I switched it up and was wearing a black dress with the bottom that had flower and was a little above my knees. I saw a book store across the road and be being a nerd who loves books wanted to go. I asked if I could go now and they meet me their they said yes. I went out and was walking when a group of men who looked late 20s catcalled me. I was so scared I ran to the book store crying my eyes out. I was 16 years old.

dunno if this counts but when my parents found out i was Bi, my mom told me "You don't have the dating experience to know if you like girls." Every single time i've said i've liked a boy it was never questioned. -_-

In the USMC, after 14 months of advanced electronics training. Sent to the office next door instead of working on gear I was trained for. Told to type documents. I told the Gunny Sgt "well, I could FIX your typewriter, but I'm not trained in how these forms need to be filled out." Sent back to my shop - until they found another place to dump the only female in the entire Marine Corps in that job field. Their loss.

I don't want to really talk about the MOST discriminating thing that has ever happened to me, however I absolutely hate when people tease me for my height. I'm short and people joke and insult me because of that, picking me up without permission ("Wow! You're so light! Probably because you're short." or "Are all girls this light?"), etc. Literal strangers would just pick me up and make fun of me. It's embarrassing and belittling and uncomfortable, I absolutely despise it.

I was coming home from church with my mom one time and she was furious. The way my church was split up was by age groups until you were an adult, then the women met in one room and then men met in another. Well, in my moms meeting they had told the mothers that “we have noticed that the young women’s dresses have been really short lately. If you could talk to you daughters and tell them to wear longer dresses” they were clearly talking about me, since I was the one with the shortest dresses. Here’s the thing though: I don’t wear super short dresses, the shortest go down to just above my knees. They were upset that my knees were exposed (not really tho cause I was wearing pantyhose) because all the old dudes at church got horny over some knees. What kind of crap is that??

Waitress here working in Italy. A guest told me "You are not from here. I can see from the shape of your head that you are not from here."

I am Hungarian and we don't have any distinctive head shape.

At another time, a guest left the following review on Google. "Nice place. Good cakes. Foreign personnel, but doing their best."

Not me, but my best friend.

She was at Forever 21, when she saw an older guy staring at her. He was about 30 years old with a beard. When she looked back at him again, he winked at her. Keep in mind that she is still a minor. And she told me it was creepy as heck.

Okay, so maybe this isn't blatant discrimination - I recognize that I have a lot of privilege and am very lucky to have not been discriminated against a lot in my life - but I have definitely had hurtful, uncomfortable, and intrusive things said to me. Stuff like "There is no wage gap, you just won’t admit that women don’t try as hard," "Here, pull up my shirt and see my bruise" "Do you sit with your legs together or spread open?" "It’s not that there are less women in Congress because of gender. It is just that women are less qualified." "Heyyyy, girl *wink*"

In secondary one I had quite a social group of friends (I'm quite awkward socially.) And we were all in the canteen chatting and this random guy has the audacity to call me a s**t, I don't even know him and was too shocked to speak. Only a few people noticed and when they said something eventually all of my friends were going at this poor kid. So at least I got a happy ending 😊

I have a different name(boys name) you would say so growing up I've always bn asked if I'm sure I was a girl. Or my favorite one is were your parents expecting a boy? No I love my name! By the way it's Randi... Not short for anything just randi

also when i was in 6th grade i had this kid in my class that would bully me and call me a h*e, stripper, b*itch, s*ut, f*ggot and other names but i dont feel like typing them. then he started to hit and kick me and i wasn't able to do anything about it. i had enough when he even tried to rape me in the empty classroom thar used to be the music room

I'm an African American. When I was in Jr High, a bunch of 7th graders used to come up to me and say "go back home n-word" or "go back to Africa." This really hurt, but I didn't speak up. When I finally told my dad, I felt a lot better. We never caught the bullies but I am now in a culturally diverse school and have not been racially discriminated against since.

This actually happened recently I am a swimmer and we had our championship meet recently. Because of COVID restrictions they were going to have the girls go early in there own session on Friday and Sunday and the boys go early Saturday for there session. Sounds fair right? But two of the male coaches felt that the one day the boys would go early would be an “inconvenience to the men” so now the girls had to go early and arrive at the pool everyday at 6:15 because heaven forbid we females inconvenience the men right ladies?

I needed to buy a hardwire cable to fit my Dashcam to my car. So I went to a local car parts place. As I walk in there is only one customer in there, clearly a mechanic in work overalls. About 60 years old. (I’m 40).

I walk up to the till and he says “don’t you feel a little uncomfortable in here?”

I reply “no, should I be?”

He replied “well this is a mans world, woman don’t belong in here”. He genuinely seemed perplexed and clearly believed in what he said.

I have never. Ever. Been spoken to like that and I work in a mainly male environment

When I was younger I wanted to try soccer, my parents wouldn't let me because I was a girl, so I started acting more like a guy, then when I was 12 I told them I wanted to try figure skating, and they said I couldn't because I wasn't girly enough

I’m a very white hispanic/Latina (like vampire pale, its kinda scary) and when i tell people I’m Hispanic/Latina they say, “are you sure your Hispanic/Latina?” “Just because you’re parents are Hispanic/latino(a) doesn’t mean you are” (which is false even if i wasn’t born in a Hispanic/ Latin American country) “you’re so white. I thought Hispanics/latinas are supposed to be black/brown/tan?” “Oh your Hispanic? Say a sentence in Spanish.” Or “oh you speak fluent Spanish? Prove it.” This just makes me so mad

Ok, this is probably me being dramatic but this happened like every day before I was being educated from home
"Can any strong boys help me carry these chairs back?"
Um excuse me teacher just boys
really

One time I wanted to play 4-Square, so I went in line. This guy came up to me and was like, "Sorry you can't play with us." And I asked him why. He said that since I'm a girl, I would be bad at 4-Square and it would be too easy to get me out.

I worked at a daycare with disabled kids. I would take groups of three with me to the nearby park, so they could play on the play ground, under my 'watchful eyes' and with my assistance.
One day, a kid trips and I help him get up, just to have a random woman scream at me, why I, a man, am touching a 'random' kid. I try to explain to her, that I am the kid's caretaker and she keeps accusing me of being a pedophile because I was 'staring at the other kids' (well, duh, they need to be watched constantly) and I had no 'proof' (it is not like nursery school teachers have a badge). It ended in her calling the police. Of course, nothing came of it, but I still quit my job after another similar incident.