That colleague made comment about ginger babies

I was a ginger baby-I'd be properly pissed off.

I’m less firey red more mangy fox these days!

lucky enough to have nice green eyes though.

DS is dark but in the summer he gets a dark red tinge through his hair that you see when the sun shines through it.

Oddly I have a small blonde streak in my hair and a couple of jet black hairs in my fringe. Mum was blonde and dad had jet black hair. Weird huh?

I also agree that red headed babies get a lot more attention, my red head was my third child and he got so much more attention when I was pushing him round Asda in the trolley or out and about even as a toddler. We went on a family holiday to Portugal when he was about 4 or 5 months old, the local old ladies treated him like a rockstar, they were fascinated by this pale red headed, smiley little boy with the amazing hair and big blue eyes.

I do hope all the people on here who say that they would tackle people who made these offensive comments carry through on this and would actually call people out who voice these ridiculous ideas.

I’m so sorry @AddictedToBooks

Luckily my hair took amazingly and I went platinum blonde from starting out with a few highlights!

Totally agree with this. It needs stamping out like any form of racism.

YANBU. I am a redhead. The amount of comments I have had over the years is literally insane. People seem to think that their lighthearted "joke" is funny and unique when in reality we have had it ALL our lives. Silly comments from kids at school, "ginger" "carrot top" to downright bullying "something wrong with you cos of your hair". Carried into adulthood too, I have been shouted at on the bus, overheard comments at the school gates about how they don't want their kids to be ginger. The most recent one that still hurts is when I went out with a friend who dyes her hair a very bright colour, she always gets complimented on it, the first time someone said how nice her hair was she turned round to me and said "no one ever comments on YOUR hair do they, ha ha ha!" She is no longer my friend!

My children are not redheads. Part of me is glad of it because they won't have that to deal with their whole lives. My mum used to tell me that I should have looked at the bullying as being "character building". Sod that. School and life can be brutal enough.

In Ireland it used to be considered unlucky to be 'first footed' in the New Year by a redhead. A red-haired girl I knew had a hissing noise made at her in a far Eastern country once, either Vietnam or Thailand, I can't remember which! They are just ridiculous superstitions, like those around black cats.

I have very curly ginger hair, it’s got darker with age, I hope it doesn’t go brown, just because I like it. I have an unofficial curly ginger club at work (in my head!) and last week, one of my Year 8s was telling me about his hair products. He couldn’t care less that his hair is ginger, nor could the lad in my form, also ginger and curly. The two girls in Year 11 dye theirs darker regularly. When it fades, it looks amazing!

Your colleague’s an arse, I’m appalled at her lack of maturity making that stupid comment.

Danes. Had red hair. Irish slavers crossing to Wales and Cornwall, many had red hair. Scots scouring the borders (reivers were from both sides btw), a lot had red hair. That's one origin. Another is sheer stupidity.

My best friend is ginger, and she is the most beautiful person I’ve seen.
she’s striking and when we’re out the attention she gets is insane!

My daughter was born bald, went pure blonde, then a lovely red, back to blonde and now seems to be going to a bland light brown like me. I would love her to have a natural vibrant colour.

I also read either on here or somewhere else on line that a mum made her son break up with his girlfriend who was a redhead as she didn't want "ginger" grandkids....he married a blonde and had ginger kids...the ex girlfriend had two blonde kids....

So rude to make comments like that.

This says so much more about her than about you. She is ridiculous, rude and immature.

Meant to say, very best wishes with your pregnancy!
I'm blonde but have two red-headed daughters and they're gorgeous!

What an absolute bitch!

I never understood why ginger hair gets such a rough time in the UK. In my home country ginger hair is worshipped as it's such a beautiful colour.

I think a complaint to HR is the right thing to do at this stage.

It was a particularly vile comment and should not be tolerated, especially in the workplace.

If open prejudice like this is brushed off, it’ll continue.

I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm sure she was perfect. I can't imagine how hurtful and enraging these stupid comments are. No-one with an ounce of intelligence would think it let alone say it. Ignoring doesn't seem a strong enough response, it is so ignorant and ridiculous.

I really hoped for a ginger baby and was disappointed not to get one. Keeping fingers crossed OP that you get yours 😊

Congratulations on your pregnancy, I hope they do have lovely red hair. I feel like it must be jealousy too, don’t get the hate for something so vibrant and beautiful. I have dyed red hair to cover the grey, had a little laugh one day last summer when a guy shouted ‘ginger minge’ at me (resisted shouting back ‘nah it’s more like steel wool’). Verbal abuse is unacceptable and all that but at least I know it looks broadly natural.

I'd suspect she knew you were in the room and said it specifically as a dig at you, but maybe I'm just paranoid. 😅

Anyway, yes, it was obviously a rude thing to say, regardless of who was in the room. For all she knows, anyone listening might have a family member or other loved one with red hair. Would she have said similar about any other physical feature.

She's made herself sound shallow and stupid. Embarrassing for her!

Substitute the word ginger with afro and it is plain as day how unacceptable that comment is. I hate the concept of 'kiss a ginger day' as though for the other 364 days you would not go near one. At the end of the day she is making negative comments about genetic make up, not on at all!!

I'm a natural blonde and always preferred red hair.
I ended up marrying a redhead and our first baby had red hair and she was gorgeous - sadly she passed away so ignorant comments about red-haired babies annoy me so much.

She was rude. You don't need to stoop to her level but you can tell her to stop with the shitty comments. I'm asian and my gran was a redhead as are 2 of my cousins. My dad was disappointed that none of us inherited his mum's lovely hair colour. My dd1 was born blonde, has auburn hair now and in the summer has various shades of red/ginger running through it. It's lush. My son has black straight hair and dd2 had light brown curly hair, all beautiful but different.

I love my red/ginger (depending on the light) hair.

I get the loveliest comments on it from non-Brit's.

YANBU OP.