Ridiculous comments about red hair

Really? All men? I think men have various preferences.

Men like red hair
A lot.

I haven't let anyone convince me, I don't like them and I like them less now that I am old.

If you like them that's great for you but I don't, I'd like a complexion that is one colour. I think they are ageing, linked to age spots. We don't all like the same things do we and on top of that I'd like to be able to sit in the sun without burning as the other joy of my red haired, freckled life is I burn horribly and have had skin lessions removed and have to be vigilant about skin cancer.

Plenty of redheads around here in Cork. 13% of Irish and Scots , the highest proportion in the world. If Scandinavia were the origin of the gene there would be a higher proportion up there. Most people here have dark or brown hair. I've never heard people insulting or bullying redheads though. Too many around I suppose.

@NeverDropYourMooncup 😮

Your MOTHER?

There's nothing wrong with freckles. To let other people convince you otherwise puts you in alignment with people like my mother, who delightedly phoned me one day to tell me that she'd seen a TV show and did I know that I could get somebody to cover my face in acid to 'burn those filthy things off' and maybe with time, I'd be able to get them to do it to my hands and arms as well.

😲 What??!! That's outrageous! 🤬

"I really, really dislike the word 'ginger' for it as it was used in school and beyond as a pejorative term"

Agreed (red haired daughter). I only use the word "ginger" to refer to the root/spice.

Thinking about it I think the freckles have bothered me more than the ginger. I have lots of the bloody things, arms/hands and of course face. I don't even sunbathe, wear factor 50 all the time and still I have them and every spring they take on a whole new life of their own. I think they are OK when you're a child or young adult but when you get old I think they are far from flattering.

Having said all that lots of men seemed to like freckles when I was young and single.

I think I've only seen him in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and I'm pretty sure he was blonde in that. I saw him in that because I feel about Paul Newman the way you feel about RR. I wouldn't care what colour hair Paul Newman had.

still ginger

WTAF???

Yeah I met a red head young guy through tennis club - tall ish, strapping, fairly goodlooking and super confident and outgoing; he had what other members referred to as the "fan club" (a collection of girls who hung around him).

Interestingly, the three Irish people I've known the most have all been dark-haired. (Two NI Protestants, one Dublin Catholic)

Dark hair is by far the most common hair colour in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The red head cliche is odd - from vague estimation, they're low in numbers, and I'd actually say red heads are mostly Ulster Scots ... Who are obviously of a Scottish extraction. In turn I have to wonder if those Scots were of Scandinavian extraction originally.

Celts were supposed to have moved up from Spain & Portugal, weren't they? So it makes sense that we have dark hair but skin colour lightened up due to lack of sunlight etc.

As for Catholics and protestants.... What doesn't fit with Sinn Fein and Unionist dogma is that we're all inter married and mixed and converted across religions, over hundreds of years. It's obvious eg through all the names - loads of Catholics with English & Scottish names.There are millions of "Doherty's" of both religions here. My family is Donegal Irish mixed with Ulster Scots.
Ethnically (and looks wise which you seem to be referring to) there is no divide, but as I said Sinn Fein etc and others don't like to acknowledge that.

Dorky Calum and Top Model Calum don't seem like the same person. I think extreme looks are in and he's extremely white and ginger, also works out, and has the cheekbones too! Great role model for Red haired men for sure!

Ohhh i do understand its awful. Our DS is small. He gets comments constantly. it's awful.
Hes 6 now and the same people still talking about it - its as if because its is height its fine.
The sooner we stop mirroring to kids its ok to scrutinise our differences in appearance, the better

@Blinkityblonk I love Callum, he doesn't look particularly good looking when chatting in his videos but he certainly looks amazing when strutting his stuff and in magazines....those cheek bones!

If you want to follow a lovely ginger (hunky) model on Insta/fb, there's one called Calum Harper, he's modelled for some big names, started off in Japan where they loved him. Great inspiration for Red haired boys and their mums, he's also very endearing. I have red hair and like it lots, especially as I age and haven't gone grey or white yet.

We stopped buying Milka chocolate after their casting call for kids for advertising specified no red heads.

Ds2 is ginger and I try to encourage him to accept it because it can't be changed.

My late Dad, beautiful, strong, wavy, auburn hair. Magnificent, a strong and wonderful guy. Me proud to be auburn, son has just a hint of it but all the looks. It’s wonderful and our family heritage is Norman. It’s strong, I like it

It's so sad there's such a stigma around red hair, at least he's unique.

Try to teach him to be confident and embrace his hair as he grows .

Please don’t question Robert Redford’s redhead genes. That’s just rude. He’s one of the hottest men on the planet, ageing well with naturally red hair (ginger/ strawberry blonde/ pedant) and piercing blue eyes….. sorry, did you say I have a crush 😻

Looking at photos of Robert Redford he must have dyed his hair as it is anything from very light blonde through red to brown depending on the film.

Was he ginger? I'd have said strawberry blonde at a push. If the people saying they never had any problems were actually strawberry blonde maybe we aren't talking about the same thing.

This is mine. The midwife said good news it's a girl, bad news it's she has red hair when I was born