To be fucking sick of ginger hair comments?

[BlurryFace]

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.

[ohmywhatamisaying]

Some people love to discriminate, and since racism is no longer generally acceptable and had become a crime, these people need an alternative easy target which won't cause them to be ostracised or imprisoned. I'm pretty sure it wasn't this bad in the 70's and early 80's when such people could publicly bully people for having brown skin and get away with it.

[Luckymummy22]

I never wanted any boy I had to be ginger but I did want any girl I had to be auburn like me.
Well typical my girl is brown and my boy is ginger lol. And I absolutely LOVE his hair and it is so him. I'm still secretly a bit upset my girl has brown hair.

We get lots of comments about his hair. It's a gorgeous colour. Every comment has been nice so far.

There are loads of boys here with ginger hair and before my boy was here I didn't realise it was so common in England.

(Thought it was mainly the Scots & Irish - I'm Scottish btw)

[gingergenius]

Yep!