That colleague made comment about ginger babies

I really don’t think the weird thing in Britain about red hair is an anti Irish thing because the French are also insulting about gingers for some reason. I think it IS a form of racism though, because red headed people tend to have specific physical characteristics aside from just hair colour- pale skin, freckles etc.

Heided.😃

@Borgonzola I do the same, people must think I'm mental when I'm not actually with my son when I'm smiling like mad at a ginger child 🤣

My niece and nephew are reid heeded not uncommon in Ne Scotland.
Don't understand the hate for ginger hair.

I think your colleague was talking out of her arse.

my DD is red haired and there’s lots of it in my family. It looks great.

I have a very handsome ginger 16 year old lad, everyone comments on his lovely hair. I can always pick him out in a crowd too. Shes a twat and treat her as such from now on.
Also my friend has the same colour hair but all 3 of her kids are brown/mousy. I think its terrible people are still mean about ginger hair,.you can't say a word about people's skin colour, religion, sexual preferences, but this hair colour is still fair game.
I hope you get the ginger baby you want, 😊😊xx

What an absolute tit she is. My partner and I had a surprise ginger baby (neither of us are) and were thrilled. A few people have said 'she'll probably grow out of it' but I really hope she doesn't as it's a beautiful colour. She's nearly 2 now and no sign of it changing. I don't understand people like her.
It does mean that when I see another ginger child i give them extra as they remind me of my little one

Absolutely pathetic

She sounds awful

I live abroad and no-one ever mentions red hair, it's such a non issue

Yanbu! I don’t understand why it’s acceptable for people to be rude about ginger haired people.

I am ginger although greying now and has a lot of teasing as a child. As an adult I got loads of compliments, it was most odd!

Ds1 is bright ginger and has never experienced much teasing! His hair colour is incredibly beautiful and he has blue eyes so he’s really unusual.

Ginger hair is interesting and unusual, society needs to embrace it!

My daughter has a 7 week old baby. His dad is ginger. At the moment his hair is brown, but my daughter and I delight in seeing hints of red in it. Will he go more ginger? Probably, and how wonderful. I’m more interested in whether he’ll have freckles. I really hope so

Congratulations on your pregnancy

I have 2 ginger haired kids and while my daughter gets nice comments from time to time, my son has had some vile comments at high school. Boys seem to get it worse for some reason. I think you’re right to feel this way. It’s a lame, outdated, childish reaction and she sounds like a prick.

Unusual colour combination - must look quite striking

It's really out of order, I hate comments like that

My mum used to say she was so glad I wasn't born with ginger hair and that she's worried about it. Honestly the shit people come out with.

I actually think ginger hair is beautiful

I'm hoping my baby has ginger hair, I think times have changed. Red is seen as beautiful in the newer generations.

I live abroad and am literally slightly famous for being "that woman with the red-haired children" 🙈😅🧑‍🦰 EVERYONE comments on their hair, usually positively. I get a lot of "Oh, Prince Harry/Ed Sheeran!!" too which I find bizarre but they always mean it nicely.

I would prefer it if someone called them Weasleys But it's quite nice really.

She sounds like a joy @CheesexCrackers 😬 that would have pissed me off too and I wouldn’t have been able to stop myself saying something so well done you for not 😬

I grew up wishing for red hair 🙈🤣 I just love it! I always wanted to be the red headed girl in Atomic Kitten 🙃😂 DH has red hair and I secretly prayed the whole time I was pregnant that baby wouldn’t have red hair purely because I’d be so jealous being the only one in the house without 🥲😂

I love red / ginger hair.

Your colleague is a halfwit to say anything like this, op.

I'm a redhead, my mum is a redhead. She spent both my pregnancies worrying I'd have a redheaded son! Apparently "it's worse for boys" 🙄

My gorgeous DS is an unusual colour redhead. I always say he is the colour of Autumn - russet/gold/red.
He's 20 now and handsome!

I’m a redhead and was bullied stupid for it at school in the 70s. My son is also a green-eyed redhead, the most striking and beautiful thick, shiny copper colour - he’s now 20, 6ft 2 and rocking the full Viking look with longer hair and big beard etc. Luckily he’s never been bullied for it as I think (in Scotland at least, where’s its way more common tho still rare) times have changed a little. But I would have given your colleague a long, hard stare for her cheek.

I have 2 ginger haired children who I'm obviously very protective over so would not be happy at all if someone made a comment like this. I will say though that since they were born I have had so many comments from random strangers over how beautiful their hair is, my daughter is now 11 and even last week a gentleman stopped me in Tesco to compliment her hair. Your colleague just sounds like a nasty woman who hasn't grown up.

I'm a brunette but I love ginger hair. Have always fancied blokes with ginger hair too.

sorry posted too soon. I have to pay £110 every 10 weeks to have red hair!

It just so happens that I'm sitting at my kitchen table right now, with my hair covered in gloopy red hair dye just so I can have a bit of what your colleague despises so much! I have always loved all shades of red and ginger hair. It's the rarest hair colour on earth and I think it's stunning. Nicole Kidman, Professor Hannah Fry, Isla Fisher, Ed Sheeran, Damian Lewis and Jesse Tyler Ferguson - all very attractive, in no small part because of their glowing locks.

A tiny little shout-out to the guy who presents the safeguarding training video that I watch for work each year - I don't know what he's called, but his fiery hair and ice blue eyes make it much more enjoyable!