I took my child to a baby and toddler event at the library this morning. There was a mum with her baby whose hair was starting to come through. She was telling her friends loudly how happy she was that her child wasn’t ginger because her husband had some redheads in his family and they were so worried about it.
All said in earshot of my red haired daughter. Luckily she was oblivious but she won’t always be.
This was in a very diverse part of SE London and the mum sounded educated and like she should know better.
I’m not from the UK and was aware of the bullying redheads faced here in the past but maybe naively thought those days were over. Is this what my daughter is going to have to live through here?
And if that woman is reading this, or her friends who laughed along - shame on you.