Discrimination
Here I figured that being a caucasian female, discrimination had not affected me much. Of course as a teenager I did get some of the age discrimination but nothing major. So today I had to go to the dr this morning (sperate update to come on that). Because it took less time than I figured I was really early for class. So I decided walk around t he quay, get some coffee (of course) and do some window shopping. Many of the sidewalks on the side streets are very narrow. Two women were walking towards me, each with a stroller and one with another child beside the stroller. So I step aside into an alley to let them pass and smile at the boy who walks by me. The woman then gives me this dirty look. Yes I look younger than I am, I was dressed nicely, I am not covered with piercing or tatoos and I was courteous and move aside so that they could pass. The only thing that I can say to explain it is discrimination. Plain and simple. In this case (I know it is a rarity) I did absolutely nothing wrong. I wasn 't even smoking at the time. Christ here I thought we as a society had moved beyond discriminatory stereotypes.