To get stroppy with work colleagues being vile about ginger children.

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I feel uncomfortable now but they were being really horrible about ginger babies and I have a lovely one who is gorgeous and im missing her loads today.
They tried to make light of it but I said that its attitudes like that that mean that red headed children are still bullied at school.
There is an atmosphere now in the office so I thought i'd tell you and you can all come and wait for them outside with banners and eggs

Of course YANBU, but then I don't see why the fact that you had "ginger" children yourself should have any bearing on the matter, it's just offensive, full stop. Same as if they'd slagged off blacks or Muslims - whether you are a member of that group yourself, or have a close friend or relation who is, isn't relevant.

I will come and throw eggs for you, for me and for parents of beautiful ginger children everywhere.

Have a look at my ginger children on my profile.

I have a red-haired child (feel a bit of a fraud calling him 'ginger' because I always think of proper orange hair as being ginger).

Red hair was at the top of my baby wishlist.

I really don't get the anti-ginger/red thing, tbh. I really don't.

YANBU, my DH is ginger and short, he didn't get bullied at school, had far too sharp a tongue for people to take the piss twice.

Our kids all have lightish brown hair with beautiful ginger tints especially when the sun shines on them (aah going mushy). It would cost a fortune to colour it like that, its beautiful.

Well done for standing up to them.

They were bang out of order. I bloody love my red hair - I never took any stick at school about it but maybe thats cause I grew up in Scotland where it is more common.

But I got really nasty comments that people thought were funny each time I was pregnant - "oh hope you dont pass your gingerness on" etc.

Thankfully I have passed it on to one of my 3 dc - my dd's hair is stunning and because I love my hair then she's growing up to love hers too. We dont live in the UK anymore and I've realised its only in the UK that people make fun of it. But why? I have no idea .

Mommybunny of course its more offensive because its personal. What a daft thing to say!

Well my DD was born with black thick hair (Like her dad) at about a month old it started to turn red. My MiL came to see us and when she first saw DD with her new colour, she proclaimed very loudly 'oh, she is ginger'. She didn't mean it in a positive way, at the time it was the colour of a concer so not ginger atall. Before I had either of my children she said how she hoped they weren't going to be ginger with those awful blonde/white eyelashes. She has now changed her tune a bit and always comments on her hair being beautiful but adds that she is lucky as she has dark brown/green eyes and dark full and long lashes. My parents in contrast are not atall bothered.

If its not ok to be vile about skin colour, then its def not ok to be vile about hair colour.Both equally offensive.

I have 4 other blonde/brown haired children I love she is different and stands out from the crowd,she also has lovely ringlets and her hair is as soft as silk.
She is on my profile but I think she was bald then

mommy I do get your point but you are being unecessarily pedantic. The fact I have a red head just menat that it was even more rude than otherwise.

I'll bring my ginger haired ds1 with me and my increasingly greying ginger locks to throw eggs

I am so proud to have continued the ginger gene with ds1. I'm a kind of subtle ginger shade but ds1 is that wonderful bright carrot orange shade and I adore it, as does he!

He has always had really positive comments and still does. He's nearly 10 now and still hasn't suffered any teasing, thankfully. By that age I was frequently called an Orangutan because of my colour. Yes they are cute things, but it wasn't meant kindly

YANBU

Even as a kid I never understood the shitty attitude towards red/ginger hair. I love ginger hair! 2 of the sexiest guys I know are/were ginger (one is no longer alive).

Good on you for calling out those stupid ignorant twats.

You are so NBU. My DH and DSs are all ginger and gorgeous. They all had the typical remarks as children but it really never bothered them and they laugh at ginger jokes, however, I am the opposite and really get angry when I hear these horride remarks. I would put in an offical complaint about your colleagues.

yanbu - i don't get why some people hate ginger hair, its nice to have something a bit rare and different
especially curly red hair i love that!

YANBU that is awful. Ginger hair is lovely. Two of mine were gingery at one point and then went blonde, I was quite disappointed as red/ginger is so pretty and unusual. They should grow up!

Just to add ginger hair is seen as quite cool at my DC high school. So hopefully the bullying will fade away now people are less ignorant.

Yanbu!! My gorgeous girl has red hair a total surprise as we are all blonde. I adore it!! Tbh I don't get the meaness to red haired people - I was bought up in a different country and red hair is seen as beautiful there.

Your colleagues are being playground bullies :(

DH is ginger, and he gets it all the time, but one of my sons (yr7) told me yesterday he lost the election to be class rep to a boy who's one and only speech to get elected was "I'm Ginger and Proud!".

YANBU. I don't get the ginger hate - redheads are considered beautiful where I'm from!

Plus I'm ginger and so is DH, and our LO likely will be. I'm proud of that!

...it was a landslide victory, apparently

I was bought up with a lot of people around me having that attitude but I never got it?

My best friend of 22 years is ginger and beautiful - 2 lads I dated in high school were ginger (1 was very hot in particular).

I really don't understand. They love it in America! We need to adopt that attitude!

You enjoy your beautiful daughter and throw an extra egg at the bastards for me!

I'm angry on your behalf, disgusting bahaviour from obnoxious adults.I will never forget being sat in the ante-natal clinic when the most ugliest,obese,scruffy couple I had ever seen were loudly claiming how they would hate a red haired child.I was tempted to comment that having red hair will be the least of their offsprings problems.Take absolutely no notice of them.

YANBU.

I really don't get the 'pick on the gingers' thing. But I have a theory that now that it's not socially acceptable to be racist, racist people have to find other outlets so they pick on redheads instead.

Even if my theory doesn't stand up to sociological study, your colleagues are still idiots. Fact.

My 5 month old daughter is ginger and, having been bullied myself for having curly hair, I will be more than happy to throw some eggs with you. People can be absolutely vile.

(I hope the Commanderling has curly hair but I don't at the same time, because of what I endured...)

flicks long curly red hair off shoulders and pats redhead DD lovingly

YANBU! Cunts.