I get that one alot also!(see previous post) I deliver pizza part time and about a month ago I delivered to a man who was surprised to hear my car radio BLASTING out Metallica (and I do mean blasting. “You don’t look like a head banger, why are you listening to that stuff?” he said.
Okielady, I do have a pierced nose so I was a bit puzzled and it isn’t as if work lets me wear chains and leather!
okay 2 posts up. My husband would be distressed if I claimed to be a lesbian hehehehehe
What exactly does a headbanger “look” like? Or a lesbian as for that matter? Comments about ethnicity, while not always welcome or even appropriate, I can understand. The people commenting base their assumptions on visual stereotypes of what many people from that region look like. But assuming that all headbangers look alike, or all lesbians look alike, it’s so absurd that I have to laugh.
Reminds me of the person who asked me if Oklahoma still had Indians. Yes, we do. In response to the other questions, no, they don’t live in teepees, and no, I don’t know of any of them who use bows and arrows as weapons against the cowboys. chuckle
Meant to include this in my previous post…
As far as my description
It was just a description of the girl on the cover of the CD, not my idea of what we headbangers should look like. 
I’m Irish and English on my dad’s side, Dutch and Czechoslovakian on my mom’s. People are always pegging me as Irish but never any of the other three, even though I look way more like my mom than my dad, and she has always been told that she looks exactly like her Dutch relatives. I think there’s a picture somewhere of a cousin from Holland who could be my mother’s twin.
I also get the age thing. “You don’t look 30!” Whee!
Oh I understood that. I was just pointing out that I DO have a facial piercing and I was wearing my ring when he asked that… maybe he wasnt looking that high …
I don’t look Native American, which is what I am the most of. I look Russian, which is second. My older brother got the Indian looks. One guy insisted I wasn’t cause I didn’t look it.
I also don’t look my age, but that doesn’t bother me.
completely insensitive comment department
My three sisters all have dark hair, brown-almost-black, dark brown eyes, and olive skin that tans well.
When a child I started with screaming-red hair, which faded to light blonde (it has since darkened in adulthood to light brown). I have green eyes. I have a skin tone best described as “vampiric”, in that it burns with the least amount of sun contact. The only person I’ve ever known with paler skin had white hair and pink eyes, OK?
So, we kids didn’t all have quite the same color, although our faces are quite similar.
People would go up to my mom, in front of us kids, look at my sisters, look at me, and then say (no joke) - “And who is HER father?” while pointing at me.
completely stupid comment department
I fly airplanes. You wouldn’t think a woman doing this is news - I mean, there was that Earhart lady awhile back, right, we’ve all heard of her? But at least a couple times of year I land the plane, part in front of the little building where you pay your money, get out (nobody else in the plane), walk inside and some freakin’ tourist says
“Where’s the pilot?”
“Uh… I’m the pilot.”
“You don’t look like a pilot!”
(I actually ask “And what do you think a pilot looks like?”. So far the consensus seems to be 6 feet tall, male, blond hair, blue or gray eyes, and 20 years old. Gee, I guess this short female thing with the thick glasses pushing 40 just doesn’t qualify, huh?)
- or -
“I don’t believe that!” (uh… yeah, you just saw me land an airplane…)
People are stooooooooooo-pid!!!
I came in for some of this last month, I am mexican, but have fair skin, whith brown hair and eyes. I sunburn easily, I have freckles on my arms, and i wear glasses.
You don’t look mexican, you sound so anglo.
Where’s your accent?
I’m half Chinese, a quarter Puerto Rican and a quarter Spanish. I look like … anyone.
People have mistaken me for:
Greek
Jewish
German
Italian
French
“Libyan terrorist” (short haircut day)
No one catches the Chinese, which is more pronounced in my sister. This has occasionally put me in situations where people feel safe enough to air their stereotypes about Asians and Hispanics; nothing hateful, but disappointing nonetheless. Growing up in the 1970’s, I’d thought we’d have moved past that sort of stuff by now.
A soldier. Yes, they take women now.