That colleague made comment about ginger babies

Red hair is so beautiful, your colleague is pathetic hopefully she’s mortified.

You'd love to say back "Oh how strange! I'll be devastated if the baby turns out to have brown hair - obviously we're all hoping for red like mine! Each to their own, right?"

Your co-worker is a bitch. Now you and all your colleagues know this too.

(As it happens, I'm being followed around the internet by an ad for Toast with a model with flaming red hair.)

(Also - I also wanted to be Jinny Manders and hated my boring brown hair growing up! There were four girls in my class in school with red hair and I was so jealous!)

I wouldn't give it another thought. she sounds like a little child. I mean how immature is that. And she is wrong. Fellow ginger here. it's the best hair colour of them all!

Red hair is gorgeous. What an ignorant thing for her to say.

Your colleague is very dim.
Just ignore.
My nearly 18 year old is a redhead. She went through a self-conscious phase (no doubt due to idiotic and rude comments by people like your colleague) but she loves it now.

YANBU. It can seem like a silly, insignificant thing to get worked up about (ginger hate), but really it adds up over time for people. Frequently hearing jabs and unpleasant comments about ginger hair could have a big impact on someone's self esteem and self perception. It's simply unnecessary, AND, ridiculous, because red hair is absolutely beautiful.

I have long auburn hair and have had multiple strangers come up to me and say how lovely the colour is.

If any redheads ever need to feel good, visit the USA - every time I have been there I have been inundated with compliments about my hair colour!

I love red hair. There was a girl in my year with gorgeous strawberry blonde hair I was so jealous.

Your colleague is a dick. Love red hair, will never understand the disdain (and worse) some people seem to have for it. My husband is red and while on one hand I’m hoping our baby has red hair when they’re born, I also don’t want them getting shit from people about it.

That's a horrible comment to make. I am blonde and my kids are blonde and dark brown haired. My niece has Auburn hair. It's beautiful and shines amazingly.

Red head here too and got kids with blonde bar the last one and he has red haire (ginger) we both rock our ginger locks and don’t give two shits

I was bullied all my childhood for my ginger hair, it was unbearable at times, so her comment would have really upset me. She’s no better than a racist in my opinion.

As the mum of a beautiful ginger baby who is now a beautiful ginger 17-year-old (although it's very slowly turning more strawberry blond now), I hate comments like this. I had nothing but positive comments when DS was small. He did get a bit of grief from some of the other boys at primary, which was a shock to him because he loved his hair until that point. He quickly perfected a deadpan 'How original' and the comments fizzled out as he got older.

DS1 has fab auburn hair…he was a gorgeous toddler and at 17 has grown into a handsome teenager. However, he was super self conscious about his colouring in the early / mid teens but now totally rocking it.

DH mid-brown, me brunette. DS2 only a slight strawberry tinge in the sun. Red haired grandparents on both sides.

She was rude and didn't think.
Is her husband a ginger? Why was she hoping not to have a red headed child?

Red hair is gorgeous.

My red haired friend hates her pale and freckled skin, that often goes with the red hair colour.
Maybe your colleague wanted her child to have hardier, less sunburn prone, skin and was not really meaning that red hair looks worse than brown..

DS (15) has red hair and the only teasing he's had at school is asking if he hates Mondays and likes lasagne (both are true for him) in comparison to Garfield the cat. No-one has been as rude as your colleague so hopefully the younger generation are a bit more mature towards this.

I remeber someone cuddling my red haired baby (I'm red headed too) and saying "Oh, her hair is such a lovely colour. You wouldn't want it yourself, of course....."🤣

I hate this anti-ginger thing even though it doesn’t affect me personally. It only exists in England as far as I can tell - Scotland and Ireland have many people with red hair so embrace it.

Is it thinly veiled racism?

There’s a thread at the moment with people talking about their parents being really thick. I assume she will be one of the parents who is being talked about in a thread in 20 years time.

I had similar comments OP, DH is a red head as is MIL (auburn) and my sister has very red hair, carrot coloured so its in my genetics. People said it in a mostly jokey way but it bloody pissed me off. I have 3 kids none of who are ginger and a few people have said it afterwards, like thank God you didn't have a ginger, as if I would have cared.

My DH was bullied terribly as a child over his hair. Its a sore topic for DH and he gets really angry when comedians especially on panel shows joke about it. They wouldn't joke about other ethnic features or colours but gingers are fair game. I agree with him on this and its actually shocking how acceptable it is.

Of course the petty thing would be to look at a photo of her baby, coo and ahhh then say ‘she’s a poor wee mousy thing though isn’t she? Will you dye her hair?’

@Myonlysunshine123

Red hair is beautiful. My little girl has strawberry blond hair. It’s glorious

Red had to be on both sides of the family for a baby to inherit it.

I choose to dye my hair auburn (when I dye it) - I think red hair looks awesome, and your colleague should be ashamed of having such a bigoted opinion, @CheesexCrackers.