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Keep in mind that I'm white, I'm a white guy with long hair which I usually type in a bun, yet this experience feels like something that would happen to a black guy and not a white guy like me
So I was shopping at Tesco's to buy my usual litre of bourbon, and I went to the self checkout and the woman who is always there flagged me up to the manager because she said she saw me put something in my bag when I literally fucking didn't, throughout my whole venture through the store I literally didn't even reach for my bag fucking once, and even if i did, most of my venture was outside of the eyeline of this woman, it was awkward af too because I had my headphones in and she had to get try to get my attention twice before I noticed, so from my perspective out of nowhere this woman is asking if I put anything in my bag and this jacked as fuck manager is also standing over me, I was honest as fuck and asked the manager to "search through my bag I didn't steal shit" he then let me off and I was obviously fucking pissed so I told him to tell the woman she's a piece of shit and walked out
My mum ended up getting involved because I called her and seethed about this whole situation because I can't fucking fight any battles by myself (socially terrified sperg), and she went in the next day and apparently the manager actually asked her if she actually saw me put anything in my bag and she fucking said no, so for whatever reason she just decided that I was suspicious and wanted to accuse me
If this was just a one off incident then fair enough but I also one time got followed around by this security guard at the same store, so I'm definitely being profiled which is highly unusual since I'm white, both the woman and the security guard were Indian/Pakistani too so I wonder if something about my face just rubs people of that culture the wrong way, but either way I truly feel like this is literally just me being stereotyped because I look "creepy" and weird because of my peculiar face
Idk what does this sound like to you guys? Have any other guys ever been negatively stereotyped like this? You only really ever hear about this type of shit happening to black people but it's happened to me and I'm literally fucking white, just way more unusual looking than the average white guy
So I was shopping at Tesco's to buy my usual litre of bourbon, and I went to the self checkout and the woman who is always there flagged me up to the manager because she said she saw me put something in my bag when I literally fucking didn't, throughout my whole venture through the store I literally didn't even reach for my bag fucking once, and even if i did, most of my venture was outside of the eyeline of this woman, it was awkward af too because I had my headphones in and she had to get try to get my attention twice before I noticed, so from my perspective out of nowhere this woman is asking if I put anything in my bag and this jacked as fuck manager is also standing over me, I was honest as fuck and asked the manager to "search through my bag I didn't steal shit" he then let me off and I was obviously fucking pissed so I told him to tell the woman she's a piece of shit and walked out
My mum ended up getting involved because I called her and seethed about this whole situation because I can't fucking fight any battles by myself (socially terrified sperg), and she went in the next day and apparently the manager actually asked her if she actually saw me put anything in my bag and she fucking said no, so for whatever reason she just decided that I was suspicious and wanted to accuse me
If this was just a one off incident then fair enough but I also one time got followed around by this security guard at the same store, so I'm definitely being profiled which is highly unusual since I'm white, both the woman and the security guard were Indian/Pakistani too so I wonder if something about my face just rubs people of that culture the wrong way, but either way I truly feel like this is literally just me being stereotyped because I look "creepy" and weird because of my peculiar face
Idk what does this sound like to you guys? Have any other guys ever been negatively stereotyped like this? You only really ever hear about this type of shit happening to black people but it's happened to me and I'm literally fucking white, just way more unusual looking than the average white guy
