That colleague made comment about ginger babies

She’s a dick, red hair is beautiful
especially in babies xx

I have a ginger kid and people tell me how beautiful his hair is wherever we go.

One of my colleagues was the same, but she's the most ginger person I've met. She didn't want a ginger boy (girl would be ok!)

Red hair is the only thing people can still mock. It’s blooming annoying. Red hair is great

@Itsneverme dd is desperate for blond highlights in her very dye resistant auburn hair. She's had strand tests and nothings actually worked or turned it to straw.

40 and been picked on all my life for being ginger! That and being horribly pale that comes with it! Went blonde at 16 and was blonde up until lockdown when I went back ginger and now finally embrace it 🙌

I also would have struggled with this after relentless childhood bullying. My first daughter was blonde and I breathed a sigh of relief. When my youngest daughter was born my husband said look she has your hair colour, and my heart sank. My redheaded daughter is beautiful and her hair is stunning and I always tell her how lucky she is to have such lovely hair. I look at all the lovely redheaded children with all the colours of the sun and think how beautiful their hair is. So daft that others can't/won't see it

its very wierd this hatred of ginger, i too am ginger and have a gorgeous ginger daughter. its a beautiful colour but even if it wasnt, why is is still so widely hated for no reason :S

Respond loudly with "Is bullying Gingers still a thing? How stupid!"

Is op coming back to the thread?

Yeah it's rude, people are weird, and for something as uninteresting as hair colour they can have an awful lot of opinions.
My husband and I and all our children are ginger. I had a colleague ask, while I was pregnant with my second, if I hoped it would be another girl because "obviously its easier for a girl to pull off that hair but on a boy its almost cruel".

I'm Irish and whilst what you're saying is historically correct, I do think a lot of people just really dislike the hair colour, complexion, freckles, eyelashes etc.

In the same way people on this thread (and every single thread like this), will say they were disappointed in their kids hair colour because it's not ginger.

People have their preferences and some are ridiculously strong.

I think it's a nice colour personally, but again that's my preference.

My mum was blonde and we (kids) all had red hair. At one point she even dyed her hair red to match.

I think it’s ok to have a preference , saying it out loud is 100% not and that’s borderline bullying behaviour . Personally I love ginger hair . My only dislike would have been if my kids had blue eyes , I think they are so common in the U.K.i really wanted them to have brown or green , I’m lucky I got my wish and they all have brown or amber eyes .

Leave it for now but when you see a photo of the baby, make a comment such as

'Lovely baby, I wonder if she'll have your nose!' followed by much cackling.

Substitute nose for chin or hair if need be.

Also the blonde girl who was meanest about it in school has had two bright little redheads herself. I really hope the kids aren't picked at but she might see the other side now.

I dislike the word ginger as it's used as a pejorative so often. I have been othered, singled out and fetishised for red hair my whole life. 'Ginger bitch' was even the snapped insult from a random man I said no to recently enough and I'm 40!
My little nephew is only six and very much in the blonde family with only a hint of strawberry and now he's getting this 'ginger' crap at school too. It's coming from the stupid parents. Like it's not the same as racism but imagine the clampdown if someone was insulting the skin tone/hair of a POC! It needs to stop.
I had a colleague who was disparaging about his 'ginger' brother and his 'ginger' kids and apparently forgot I was there as I'm a good looking woman. (See fetish). I had to keep some manners, don't know how I did it, but I did say it's the last bastion of prejudice and unacceptable in an office never mind anywhere else.
I'm older now and give less fucks. I'd have told your colleague that I hope her perfect little brunette daughter didn't inherit the bullying little bitch gene from her along side her hair colour.

Really? Wow. I had a Norwegian friend who was rather short and dark - every time she was introduced to someone new she was ‘yes I’m Norwegian, yes I’m short, no I’m not blonde…’

Growing up (Scotland) never really had bullying as a result of my hair. Just once a big lad from the rough secondary school nearby enquired if I’d ‘haud yer heid up a lassies fanny’ (I was only about 8 at the time so had no idea but one of the girls from the school gave him an earful). I had more when I stared wearing glasses and proper nasty stuff because my big sister is gay.

A few years back some drunken arsehole (out with his slightly less drunk friend) started making rude loud comments about my red hair - to me - when I was out with DH (he was a few steps behind because he’d stopped to look at something).

By the time he caught up I’d gone full Glaswegian banshee and mr smartarse was just standing there in shock with his mouth hanging open. I think it started ‘you fucking WHAT?????’ (and then - as my mother would say - full on for several minutes without repeating myself).

I was so bloody furious - not for me (because he was just an arsehole and I didn’t know him) but because anyone could be so horrible to a complete stranger and would he say that to a child or a random young woman and make them feel like crap?

@MonsteraMama first of all, it's not a joke unless you have the sense of humour of a literal child. I don't think comparing brown body parts to poo is funny, when children actually get bullied for that (me, my child etc). Also, biting back at the expense of the baby is pretty tactless.

You are obviously not being unreasonable, but you would be unreasonable to let this slide. Time to involve HR or a manger.

My sister in law , her brothers, my two nieces - all shades of red. Norwegian. Not unusual colouring there.

I have red hair as do two of my three DC.

Haven’t heard any ginger comments in years probably because of my strong don’t fuck with me vibe.

However I’m sure the DSs will get their fair share of it in school. I will be teaching them to fight fire with fire if it ever comes up.

I have a redhead with green eyes and a strawberry blonde with blue eyes. I’m not a redhead and am do jealous

Everytime I hear somebody 'joke' about ginger hair, I automatically believe they have a below average IQ.

-Said the dark haired ,30 something year old.