I am 58 years old and this has never happened to me until today.

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92. I find that it is fairly typical of the young

perhaps they just feel threatened, but many is the time I have been biking around strange parts and had some little five year old kid - cute little kid, yelling at me and shaking his fist. Being so small I cannot hear what they say, but the hostile attitude is clear.

In many ways, it is just animal behaviour, like the little dog yapping at all the people and other dogs going by his yard. Gotta defend the territory - even when you are clearly too small to defend anything.

It is not just homophobia either. As a male who had worn his hair long, I often get shouts of "hippie" as I go by or "get a haircut".

But even rednecks face it. I bought a straw hat (so I could goto fireman's dances) but I found that I could seemingly not wear it without having somebody mockingly yell "yee haw" as I walked past.

And I suspect that some of the crap I take is based on the fact that I look skinny and weak and thus look like a safe target.