i am generally the exception to these kinds of things because i am a ginger. ive gotten asked plenty of times. i was also made fun of for my hair color (and accompanying fair skin) RELENTLESSLY in high school, as well as even told by one girl i confessed feelings for that "sorry, im just not attracted to redheads."

there was a group of guys i hung out with that would constantly yell firecrotch across the halls, and i was fairly regularly asked if the carpet matched the drapes. anytime there was a swim party i would dread the moment of shirt removal because i knew i would get teased for being fucking blindingly pale.

at first i would get angry but then i started to get told that i was letting my red-headed temper/"irish" temper get the best of me. so after that, i had to just sit there and swallow it all with a smile because if i had ANY REACTION at all, it would be "OHHHH HERE COMES THE GINGER HULK!!!"

and when the south park episode came out about gingers having no souls?? jesus FUCKING christ, i mean i laughed at the episode just fine but the amount of times i was cutoff mid-sentence with "SHUT UP YOU HAVE NO SOUL" was insane.

so that's why i fucking hate when people say that white people are incapable of feeling like an outcast due to their skin/hair. it was a long time before i was able to see myself as not ugly and weird looking, and there's no recognition of it in the media. gingers are still always the weird ones, the angry ones, the fat friends, the nerds, the whatevers.

im not crying oppressed, because i dont see myself as oppressed. but let's just say that now i have a tougher skin than many because of it all, and because of the fact that no one cared. no one cares about ME being made fun of. it's probably contributed to me being an angry sarcastic asshole all the time. but it's all good, im happy for the most part.

/rant

ive never really typed all that out or told anyone about that, that felt good.