To be fucking sick of ginger hair comments?

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My 2 DSs are both under school age and ever since their hair came in I get to hear comments on it from strangers. Sometimes its complimentary, other times it's tuff like "ooh he's going to hate his hair when he's older bless him" or "he's going to get picked on with that hair".

It doesn't ruin my day or anything, I just think "get some social skills you twat" while going 'mmm, really'. I am ginger for Christ's sake, so even if it goes over the boys' heads I can fucking understand it. When I was pregnant with DS1 SIL (who I like) said "oh DH, wouldn't it be funny if you two had a ginger kid? Oh no offense, BlurryFace."

I just feel sick of shrugging off ginger this, ginger that comments. I've been doing it for 20+ years, my own mother has said she thought it a shame I was ginger when I was born. I got all the ginger pubes (what other colour would my pubes be, dumb fuck?) comments at school, but everyone hated me anyway, it was just bonus ammo.

Next time I think I'm going to ask if the person who thinks my kids will hate their hair hate their own nose/jaw/body shape.

Yeah being bullied for being a ginger is just banter LOL ROFL LMAO!

They should suck it up, copper coloured twits!

Like people who are bullied are eejits who deserve it, coz they are 'not letting the bullies take control.' (As someone said a few pages back!!!)

Fuck's sake springflowers.

My daughter was bullied at school for being a bit chubby, and had her life made hell for about a year, and the head of the school said they would offer counselling to HER to enable her to deal with it better.

Nothing mentioned about sorting the cunts out who are making her life hell, and the cuntish mothers who enabled it, by LOL-ing on facebook at how 'precious' my daughter was and how she needs to 'man up' as life will deal her waaaaaay worse shit than this! Along with comments about how 'pathetic' I was for going to the school about the bullying.

Bet the poster 'springflowers' is that fucking head teacher!!

Or one of the mothers.

The comments you made about gingers and their 'pasty face' blah blah is just fucking racist springflowers. As someone said 'Would you say the same about someone with dark skin? '

Again, Spring, what relevance is your opinion about ginger hair to the topic of this thread?

I drove past a mother and 2 young daughters all with stunning long wavy red hair last week. I nearly wounds down the window to shout out how beautiful their hair was....but thankfully I realised just in time how bloody weird I would look.

I always lusted after Amy Nuttall's hair when I was younger! I did dye my hair in a bid to emulate her but it turned out horribly and then took ages to grow out. I can't use dyes now at all. My one regret about my hair is my blonde lashes and rosacea (linked to pale skin that often goes with red hair!)
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Isn't it gorgeous! I was teased mercilessly when I was a kid/ teen but it was water off a duck's back. I like my hair so didn't give a toss what others said. When they knew they couldn't get to me, they stopped, funnily enough.... Isn't that the way with most close-minded bullies?!

I think it is OK to have personal opinions on what is attractive without being racist.DH for example prefers blonds to brunettes- is that bigoted?
,I prefer men with a a square jaw to a chinlessthink lightly tanned skin look better than pale, I love brown eyes.

My DH and DD are ginger, I am the odd one out and dye my hair to have a tinge of it. I really love ginger hair and my DD just generally gets nice comments. I know people can be ride though as I got lots of "your poor child will be ginger" comments when pregnant. In my head I thought "yeah but yours looks like you, and that can't be changed!!". Dicks.

I just dont get the ginger angst...it's the most beautiful hair.

My first serious BF was bright ginger and he did take some stick for it at school

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Spring, what relevance is your opinion about ginger hair to the topic of this thread?
what is the relevance of all those who are saying they like red hair?

This thread is about abuse people get for having ginger hair, so you come on the thread to tell everyone how awful it is. You can think whatever you like about it.

What I'm asking is why did you post it on this thread?

I'm a redhead and remember saying 'please don't let him be red' during labour when off my face on drugs to the midwife when she announced she could feel lots of hair on DS's head. I had enough hassle from ignorant wankers growing up that I could do without my children getting it.

Neither of them are red but MIL kept on for about 6 weeks to DH was he sure he didn't have ginger eyebrows then my neighbour started on about 'he looks like he has a touch of the Irish about him. It meant it was less of a surprise when a huge UKIP sign appeared in their garden the last two elections.

I have in my 40's made my peace with my red hair and dye it that colour now. It's the same as when I was a teen as saw my friend's Mum for the first time in nearly 30 years and the first thing she said was that my hair was still the same lovely colour.

The relevance of those saying they like red hair is that they don't understand the abuse because they think it's nice. Unless you are saying that you do think the abuse is okay because you think it's not nice?

I love red hair and do sometimes comment on it, because I love it. Like gosh, your hair is a fab colour! I usually comment that I'm from a family of red heads myself so they don't think I'm just pointing it out but at the same time I don't hesitate to compliment it as I know people have also sometimes hard a hard time because of their hair. I think it's rare and special. My DD is really lovely with her red hair which curls around her face like a Hollywood 1950's beauty!

To say that IRL I would never make unsolicited comments about red hair even though I don't like it.In this thread I do not feel the comment is unsolicited.The Op came on a discussion thread banging on about how gorgeous her children's hair colour is and nobody is allowed to disagree?.

spring you keep avoiding my question. Is it ok to have "banter" with a black person for their skin colour? How is this different to red hair?

I think it looks lovely - my only observation is that 'redhead' sounds to much nicer than 'ginger' which just sounds derogatory!

My Dh was bright ginger when we married, and drop dead gorgeous..sadly now his hair has gone mousy brown/grey (still gorgeous though)..both my children had ginger hair which has darkened somewhat too. I LOVE ginger hair, and I don't give a toss what anyone else thinks. If you have a problem with it (as opposed to being reasonable and just not being a fan), enough that you would verbally hurt someone because of it, then you really have a problem and need help.

Calling someone copper top or ginger nut is BANTER , kicking seven bells out of them is NOT!

Spring I wasn't saying my own hair is stunning... I was referring to this lady's hair:
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My own was much redder as a child. And, it is still red, albeit not as red... My ginger pubic hair bears witness to it...though I'm not posting a pic of that.. Ha ha. Another thing Spring...I'm not sure why you think redheads are unfortunate looking? I mean, this woman looks like a goddess!
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There are stunningly beautiful blondes, brunettes and redheads, and there are average blondes, brunettes and redheads. Good looks aren't the associated only with certain hair colours. I find your stance odd...

In fact, prompted by another comment, when having my babies the first question I asked was did they have red hair - but I asked because I wanted them to have it, I wanted them to be like their dad because I loved him and saw that as a wonderful thing.

spring you're missing the point. Is it ok to call someone with black skin a name relating to their skin colour- ie the equivalent of "copperhead."

Spring...the pudgy faced girl on the Thomsons add is just like my DD, you really are mean. I wonder what you lool like, must be fab being so beautiful, looking down on us ugly people with ginger children. What a dick.

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Your comment is completely unsolicited, and unnecessary. The thread wasn't 'Do you like ginger hair?' It was 'AIBU to be fucking sick of ginger comments?'

So you thought it was appropriate to make some insulting ginger comments and have made yourself look like a bit of a dick tbh.

DH is ginger and he's the sexiest man I've ever met!

His hair is beautiful.