That colleague made comment about ginger babies

People like your colleague are just massive twats.

So immature.

I had a colleague who would compare able bodied people’s appearances to those with Down syndrome (negatively) some people are just absolute shallow arseholes and don’t know how to read a room.

Be careful anyone who is relying on that...

I thought I did but my body is shit and my vitamin D was 9 when I was tested. Had to have a high dose course and now take 4000IU daily!

I would have said something to the colleague. I have red hair. I was bullied at school because of it. My DD has red hair, and I do worry she will have a similar experience as me. Even though everyone always says how lovely her hair colour is - and it is beautiful.

I saw a marketing campaign at an airport for something in a coffee shop once, with the slogan “what’s wrong with being ginger?”. It was written on a huge sign in departures. I emailed them, explaining my experience and how I found the slogan offensive. It was removed. Unbelievable.

I don’t have time for twatty attitudes towards a hair colour.

Red hair is gorgeous. Ignore the rude cow.

Ginger solidarity!
we are rare and special mutants- as pp noted, we brew our own vitamin D! People will always be envious and bitter 😉

I think I'd respond and say something like well let's hope your child has someone else in the family's genes when it comes to grace and intelligence
Red hair is awesome! (I'm previously blonde/brown and now sporting quite grey hair under my dye lol 😂

Don't mind her. I say this genuinely - I absolutely love red hair, and particularly on a child. It's so striking.

It's vile that this is still socially acceptable When I had my brown haired DS( I'm ginger) the nurse said" Ahh what a lovely head of hair! You must be so relieved he's not ginger!"

I hope you have a gorgeous little fire haired baby, bring it to work and bang on about how beautiful they are !

I voted yabu because you really should not care what anybody saying something so idiotic thinks.

The british hatred of “gingers” is so odd to me! Here it would be considered notable and beautiful.

Some people are pathetic. It does make me worry about my little 2 year old boy with red curls! Kids don't care but their brains poisoned by the small minded 'adults' who raise them.

She sounds stupid but not someone whose opinion is worth bothering about. I'm a red head in my late 50s and have heard this kind of shit for as long as I can remember. It used to bother me when I was young but now I just pity anyone who is both so thick as to hold such opinions and unpleasant enough to voice them in public.

I’d just say to her that I think it’s a real shame her baby won’t be able to create its own vitamin D.

Perfect.
My DD has red hair and the comments are very tiresome. Most people are nice but there's always a twat.

At a wedding recently, a family friend was blabbing on about her new granddaughter and the absolute disgust on her face when she said "oh she's just gorgeous but it looks like she'll have red hair, it's such a shame!" was shocking. Me and my mum have red hair, and 2 of my children have red hair. I thought my mum was going to deck her 😁It's mad that grown adults think like that about anyone let alone babies!

Very rude of her. My son was strawberry blonde when he was born but unfortunately it changed to a sort of dusky blonde when he was around one. I was so disappointed! I'd love my kids to have ginger hair. It's such a beautiful colour. I have my fingers crossed for the next one 😅

It’s crazy that people still say this sort of thing. I’d be really offended if I had ginger hair.

I have 2 colleagues (one male, one female) that are ginger and they both make self-deprecating comments about it. I find it sad; it’s like they have to do it before anyone else does. When the woman was pregnant, she often commented how she was hoping her baby would not be ginger like her. (She is)

I am completely lost as to why ginger hair is seen as such an issue in Britain (or is it just England?).

I'm not from here and love red hair. I grew up deperately wanting to be Jinny Manders from the books and used to try every trick in the book to turn my hair into that colour.

OP- your colleague is an idiot.

I'd call it right out and be very vocal. And I am very quiet, non confrontational but am ginger. And I find it genuinely upsetting. I've had children picked on by teachers for it even. She should be ashamed.

She’s a twat. I hope your kid has beautiful red hair so she feels like a tit every time she looks at you.

*ginger !

I'd have been pissed off at that too. Red and finer hair is beautiful.

I constantly bang on about how gorgeous ginger hair is because I'm traumatised by my mother who constantly banged on about how having a ginger baby would be disgusting.. and 'the worst'
She actually 'joked' that she would dye my babies hair in the night if it turned out they were ginger.
Not really very funny is it. But she tells me to 'stop being so sensitive'
I hate people who just try and pass pure nastiness off as humour.
I genuinely adore ginger hair BTW and would have loved it if any of mine turned out to have it. It's the rarest colouring to have so is very special.
Just ignore these horrible people who seem to claw self esteem by putting down anyone who is different to them. They are sad people deep down. Imagine commenting on a tiny sweet babies appearance negatively.. you'd have to be really fucked up inside.

When I was young my hair was naturally sort of brown with auburn lights in it. Then in my late teens, 20s and 30s I used to always dye my hair with henna because I loved red hair.
I think naturally "ginger " hair is gorgeous. I've never understood the teasing and bullying about it.
Your colleague was being ridiculous and ignorant. And to be honest if she thinks a baby being with the "wrong" colour hair is terrible how would she have coped with her baby being born with an illness or disability?
All babies are beautiful.