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Katie Hopkins and her drivel about ginger babies being harder to love

113 replies

Bumpotato · 10/07/2013 23:45

I am being unreasonable for letting that woman give me the rage, I know that.

I'm deliberately not linking to the Daily Fail as that I presume is the whole point of this troll.

But AIBU for fantasising about flushing that woman's head repeatedly down a stinky lav?

OP posts:
Doctorbrownbear · 11/07/2013 14:27

Why why why is the media giving her a voice, why is she allowed to voice her vile views and discrimination. If she is actually voicing this stuff, imagine what she keeps to herself. She is a real life internet troll. Please This Morning, The Daily Mail and The Wright Stuff STOP LETTING THIS WOMAN TALK.

PigOnStilts · 11/07/2013 15:09

The "I love red hair" brigade are probably very pleased, nonetheless, that they don't have kids wi red hair. Outside scotland, they seem to get a v hard time :(

Zyn · 11/07/2013 15:11

I think she had to go some way to top the things she said about taylors and chardonnays! I knew that whatever came out of her mouth next would make our jaws drop.

Zyn · 11/07/2013 15:13

I wonder if her mother said 'it's harder to love a child with such a big nose'. I'd have a nose job if I were her. I reckon she's saving up for a nose job.

SoleSource · 11/07/2013 15:21

Pig - what a load of shyte

Onesleeptillwembley · 11/07/2013 15:21

Actually there's no way her collar and cuffs match - she may have a bit of ginger in there.......

PigOnStilts · 11/07/2013 15:31

No, not shite at all...I adore my kids, they've got red hair, I know when they are at school etc they'll get hassled for it at some point. My brother had a terrible time.

Nobody wants their kids to be picked on. So much as you might love it (I do too) I know they'll get teasd, inevitably....boys get it so much worse than girls.

Zyn · 11/07/2013 15:33

So who exactly is paying her to say all this stuff. Or does she just chase after the tv stations saying 'listen to this, listen to this right, em, oh yeh, ginger babies - harder to love". And then say if you pay me, i'll sit on your sofa and elaborate.

wow.

encyclogirl · 11/07/2013 15:41

I am a redhead and I'll admit I was very relieved when my dd was born blonde and even more relieved that ds was born dark brown.

I took no end of crap for my hair colour growing up, and looking back I was bloody gorgeous, looked a bit like Merida in Brave.

When I moved to London from Ireland in my early twenties it got ridiculous. The constant 'banter' about my hair colour really got me down and the thought of my own dc ever having to endure that was just too much to bear.

Now in my 40's and back home in Ireland, I don't notice any 'Gingerism', but when I was at the receiving end of it, I felt like shit.

On the up side, I have never had to colour my hair, not a single grey thread amongst the gold yet, and it was the reason my lovely dh struck up a conversation with me all those years ago in a bar in West London.

I love my red hair now, and feel extremely lucky to have been born with it, but it was a journey to get to this point.

bettycocker · 11/07/2013 16:05

Who is this Katie Hopkins? Hasn't she already cropped up on MN recently?

Two of my best friends have ginger hair and one of them is married to a man who also happens to have ginger hair. Grin

KurriKurri · 11/07/2013 16:15

Good old Katie - just when you thought it wasn't possible to loathe her any more than you already do, she ups her game.

HatieKopkins · 11/07/2013 16:17

She's no BamanthaSick, that's for sure.

CrapBag · 11/07/2013 16:37

Fucking moronic parasite of a woman. Yes lets give more people ammunition to discriminate against something like hair colour (doesn't seem to happen to brunettes and blondes though, why is red any different). How is this any difference to racism? She wouldn't be allowed to say this based on someone's skin colour so she shouldn't be able to say it about anyone based on their hair colour.

CrapBag · 11/07/2013 16:40

encyclogirl that's the reason that I did worry about having redhaired children actually. DH said he put up with loads of crap about his hair. I do worry about the same for DD, who is stunning and I do get a lot of comments, but kids are always different and will pick on something. I just hope that it isn't as common these days as it was years ago but then fucking dicks like Katie Hopkins come along and its like it was 20/30 years ago all over again.

Scrounger · 11/07/2013 17:14

My DH is ginger, people tried to take the piss out of him at school, he developed a very sharp tongue. Our children have a mix of both our colours, darkish with fantastic ginger highlights.

I think it is unfair and very bad taste to bring her children into it.

Having said that, if I was her child entering my rebellious teenage years there will be sooo many things that I would be able to do. Starting with seeing a ginger boy called Tyler. Just think of the fun you could have.

raisah · 11/07/2013 18:14

One of her kids will settle down with a redhead & give birth to her ginger grandchildren.

ChocsAwayInMyGob · 11/07/2013 19:06

I was a ginger baby, and my DH really fancies "Gingers" and feels he is very lucky to have "got one". He loves me something daft.

NapaCab · 11/07/2013 20:06

She has a point though. Some people are harder to love than others.

I think ignorant blonde horse-faced loudmouths are harder to love, for example. If you've been starved of love all your life for being an ignorant blonde horse-faced loudmouth, chronic attention-seeking would be the result.

PoppyAmex · 11/07/2013 20:15

"Agree there should be a MN campaign against the Meeja Hoors . Any time Jiz Loans, Katie and the like say something stupid and designed to upset, for clicks, we should quietly ignore or post a code word eg "meh" or something more random like "hatstand" on any thread that crops up and someone can politely tell the innocent OP why in a PM."

OP I'm totally behind you on this one. Every comment feeds her ego, but more importantly it gives her leverage to peddle another vile diatribe to the DM. No attention=no articles=money

PoppyAmex · 11/07/2013 20:15

=no money

Alisvolatpropiis · 11/07/2013 20:21

I find her hilarious. She's just so outrageously unpleasant it's laughable.

For what it's worth I think the attitude towards red heads (which most of the rest of the world finds utterly bizarre) is changing.

I think red heads are very attractive. It's so unusual. I only inherited the complexion from my red headed mum Sad I have high hopes of it skipping a generation and having red headed children though Smile

congresstart · 11/07/2013 20:47

Shes a desperado for attention....shes a first class assclown.

Italiangreyhound · 11/07/2013 23:46

Why don't we all write to the equalities commission and ask them why red hair is not included in anti-discrimination legislation. Genes in our bodies produce our eye, hair and skin colour, we have no control over it.

I know globally people with albinism is very persecuted and I am really so sorry to hear that people with ginger hair are bullied/persecuted/treated differently because of their hair in this country.

If Katie Hopkins made those comments about babies of a different ethnicity she would not be receiving the publicity for it in this way (IMHO).

Alisvolatpropiis · 12/07/2013 00:10

Italian

I believe albinism is classed as disability. Being a red head is not. There are no associated health issues with the latter.

I think the anti red head attitude is very much a British attitude. Who knows where it stemmed from?! It was once suggested to me it might be to do with the Celts and Romans as sterotypically the Celts were red headed. It's such an odd thing.

But in the current age in which we all embrace being individual the attitude towards red heads is changing.

Italiangreyhound · 12/07/2013 01:14

Thanks Alisvolatpropiis that is interesting. It looks like is is considered a disability in the UK because of sight problems associated with it. In the USA and other places there seems to be ambiguity about whether or not it is a disability.

Aside from that there are lots of things that are not a disability but which people can be bullied for.

Re red headed people I am very glad the attitude is changing.

However, if the equality commission really do not record hate crimes against red headed people I think it is wrong. It would also make it harder to know whether views are changing if statistics for bullying on these grounds are not recorded.