To think people are so mean about ginger hair!

And for the record, now I’ve been brave enough to have a reason to do it, I LOVE my hair and I’m gutted I cared what people thought for so long. That’s why it makes me so mad on behalf of all red heads.

I was bullied so badly as a child (I’m mid twenties) that I died my hair black from age 14-22. At 22, guess who came along, my beautiful red headed baby. Well that was that, a LOT of money and hair dresser trips later I’m back to red head.

If anyone DARES to even mention it in a negative way now, I’m tempted to call them a racist. If you get what I mean.

It’s completely unacceptable to be racist, or homophobic, or religion phobic (sorry it’s late, not got the right words anymore) so why is it acceptable to tease about this? You wouldn’t tease about race. I’m so fiercely protective over it. I make sure she’s confident, to be fair she’s pretty confident, and knows she’s got magical hair like Anna from frozen and brave.

Gets my goat so badly this does. They’re innocent children. I was an innocent child.

Bullying needs to stop full stop.

This is how much mine has changed. First pic is age 10 or so

I died my hair ginger at 15 and never had any comments made, but yet my friend who had naturallu gorgeous hair got bullied for it. Fucking stupid.

Ds has beautiful ginger hair. Started off dark and now its a blondey ginger. I will be devastated if he gets bullied for it.

I personally think red hair is lovely.

Having had the piss taken out of me all my life for being ginger, I now have bleached highlights because I've never ever come to love it. I hate having ginger hair and I'm sick of being the butt of jokes about it.

What makes me laugh is it's the same insults now as it was 25 years ago when I was at school. I'm like can they not come up with anything new?! But I have glasses, curly hair and a redhead so... easy target

@solidgoldbaby

@FreeSpiritJen you’re quite right. Can you imagine the uproar if you said someone was too brown? 😮

Well exactly! If anyone said that, it would be classed a hate crime.

But people who are very pale/have ginger hair seem fair game. Unfair and wrong.

I do also wonder if it boils down the historic dislike of Irish people. (And maybe even Scottish?) Very sad and nasty.

The hatred towards ginger haired folk (from some) is bloody evil tbh, and so bizarre because they are so striking and attractive IMO.

Weirdly, the attitude towards ginger haired folk seems to be one extreme or another. It's either people who think they are stunning, and striking, and the pale skin and/or freckles are cute, and the green eyes (they often have) are attractive.

OR, it's people who are vile and nasty and derogatory about ginger folk. Who bully and berate and mock.

Doesn't seem to be much in between.

And the 'are your pubes ginger too' comments are pathetic. How stupid are the people who ask this??? What other fucking colour would they be? Stupid cunts.

I also know a few people who had people looking at their cute ginger haired baby, and tilting their head, saying 'awwww, oh no... poor thing. Gonna have a tough life as a copper top!' And I have also known several ginger haired women who were super grateful that their child was not ginger like them, but blonde or brunette like their husband. (Because of the tough time they had had as ginger haired people themselves......)

As I said earlier, I think ginger hair is becoming more 'cool' now and there are lots of famous 'red-heads' who people love and who are classed as cute or hot or attractive etc, but there is (sadly) still some prejudice and hatred towards ginger people.

As the OP said, any prejudice because of hair colour OR skin colour - ANY skin colour - needs to stop.

I don't think it ever will though sadly.........

All you gingers need a Ginger Discount Card

My DS, aged 6 has beautiful ginger hair and he is very proud of it. He has always received lots of compliments about his hair.
Oddly the only person who has ever said anything negative was oddly my MIL who dyes her hair red often.
DS pointed out another child and said "he has ginger hair like me!" She relied "no darling, you're not ginger, you have lovely hair". As if the two are mutually exclusive. I wasn't happy at all.
There are definitely more ginger kids around these days and I am pretty sure there is much less bullying of them, probably for this reason!

My ds has bright copper/Auburn hair that's now curly and blue eyes. We get stopped on average about 4-5 times a day by people commenting on it. Most say how lovely it is but we've had some comments about what a 'shame' it is and how he'll be bullied etc.
Cunts.

My six year old was teased by a year three about her hair. She told me proudly (because I was called in by the teacher at the end of the day) that's she told him her hair was like her mummy's and Anna out of Frozen who is a princess, but his hair was brown and looked like dog poo and no one likes dog poo. Oh and he smelled of it too. I was mortified but proud at the same time (shes year one and stood up to a year three in front of his friends).

My ex was a total bellend (and still is) about Ginger people. It must kill him that I'm now married to a ginger - a very ginger - guy and having a baby with him.

Husband says it's got worse since he was a kid and he was bullied pretty badly. He says the internet is the major change for him.

I'm ginger. My kids are ginger. I was teased at school, now I love it. It's a justification for my temperament and matches my personality perfectly. Anyone who says anything negative about it is either jealous or thick.

It just goes on to show how a characteristic is seen across different countries. I can only recall three redheads I've personally seen in my entire life, living in a 70% white city in a multi diverse country. Blonde hair and red are considered stunning, the one to aim for and worth spending hundreds in the saloon.
I have mousey hair mentioned above - I think it's ok, don't love it but don't hate it. A couple weeks ago, a neighbour stopped to compliment it. Said she could only dream of having such a colour and that she had never seen it before. Mousey brown!

I have ginger hair, when I was younger, 14-18 maybe, I got a lot of 'ginger pubes' comments. Now I get nothing but compliments. My ds is ginger and everyone loves his hair.

As a ginger I don't like when people call me red head or strawberry blonde. I'm very proud to have ginger hair

Yes Catherine Tate is ginger Pick it was in her 'nan' persona, she's obviously less sensitive than me, or hadn't just had a red haired baby!

@DontGoIntoTheLongGrass - her hair is beautiful. Mine was like that when I was a kid but I had huge curls too.

My daughter has had nothing but complements for her ginger hair, she really is stunning though. However, she hasn't reached high school yet 🙈

I stopped using a kids shampoo when ds was little because it had some crap blurb on the back along the lines of some ridiculous planet where the sky was green, trees were blue and people had orange hair. Bah. You lost one redhead here!

DD says she has orange hair

Yeah boys definitely get it worse I think
As when most girls get older it turns into compliments

Er Catherine Tate is a redhead, herself!

Sex on a stick Jamie Fraser (Outlander) has gorgeous auburn hair.