Have you ever been called ugly?

Yes or no?

That’s all.

Only by me. (As far as I’m aware of.)

yeah, by some psycho, road-rage nut. Needless to say, I’m taking his opinion very seriously!

yes

Not by anyone that lived long after :smiley:

Oh yes.

Some people think that they can just go up to anyone and say anything they want. God will get them for that (eventually!) :wink:

More than once, a lot more.

All the time when I was a kid (by other kids). I even remember one April morning when I was in third grade, this punk Galen came up to me and said, “Hey, you’re pretty.” I was stunned and was almost beginning to believe him when he smiled evilly and said, “April fools!” Yup, it was April 1st.

No. Never. But I have been called fat on several occasions.

I’ve been called everything from ugly, butt ugly, fucking ugly, awe-inspiringly-ugly, stupid, worthless, mean, lame, pathetically desperate, just plain pathetic, scum, dreg, weak, loser, fat, failure, idiot, freak, four-eyes, “teeth” and “scar” (both clever references to my car accident aftermath) - and this is just in High School!

True, I am ugly. And true, some of the descriptors I listed are not really directly pointing to my ugliness, but they were said because of it.

I hope this thread is not an experiment to see if people like myself would publicly demean themselves. If so, I’m calling your bluff mega - I know what I am, and although I hate myself and wish I was dead, I still make it through my day as a very productive member of society.

Judging from your picture on the SD People Pages - you are a very pretty girl who has never been called any of the above things in a serious context.

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but I KNOW from your words, your posts and shared emotions, that you are ACTUALLY incredibly BEAUTIFUL…in all the ways that beauty COUNTS.

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I’m truly sorry if my words may have sounded a little bit harsh in the above post, mega. Maybe I really don’t accept what I am as well as I said I did, and I started to get upset thinking about how many times I’ve been insulted and tormented.

That is the phrase that is really annoying.

Several friends and I discussed this in college, and we all heard different variations:

…you would/could (???) lose weight.
…you would put on make up.
…you would do your hair differently.
…you would smile more.
…you could afford braces. (there’s that ‘could’ again!)
…you cut your hair (one guy and one girl).
…you would gain some weight (one person - she would eat anything and still looked thinner than Calista Flockhart - and HATED hearing that phrase).

We decided that people who use that phrase are just plain ignorant.

Sorry mega the roo, this turned into more than a yes/no question, but ugly takes many different forms - physical ugly, ugly remarks, ignorance (considered ugly in my book).

Wierd by some because of my hair, (which is dk. brown(normal enough) but all gelled up and spiked all over the place)
but cute by everyone else…
http://www.geocities.com/adam_the_pyro_2000/adam.html
there’s my pic page…
judge for yourself…

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Please insert the folloing at the beginning of each phrase:

You could be so pretty/good-looking if…

Raise your hand if you’ve heard THAT one!

flings hand up for screech owl’s question Yep, heard that one PLENTY.

As for the OP, I’m with DeathLlama…I call myself ugly plenty, but no one else ever has. sigh And now I’m depressed.

what I said above, to Anthracite, I repeat to you, Falcon…one of the most beautiful people I have never met.

YIKES! :eek: A FALCON!

:activates camoflage mode - squints eyes, stretches out tall, blends into tree:

“You can’t see me; I’m a branch!”

:wink:

I’ve never been described as ugly (as far as I can remember, anyhow). But then again, I’ve never been called good looking either. I’m probably one of those people no-one takes a second look at, just plain borng.

Wrong. I too, was tormented growing up. I was always the kid that people were dared to ask out, to compliment. They even changed the lyrics of “The Wheels on the Bus” to make fun of my features, individually.

Until a few years ago, I wouldn’t even use public washrooms because of the guaranteed presence of an oversized mirror.