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.

@PrivatePike in Scotland it's often anti-Catholic in origin. Even if that's irrelevant to that particular instance.

I love ginger hair and was gutted that my family's ginger gene never came down to me and my ds. I've a whole family of ginger cousins. It's beautiful.

Feck them OP. I know it's annoying but they've got boring shit coloured hair when people are paying hundreds to dye their hair red and ginger!

I always did envy my sister's ginger curls. She's always hated them!

Isn't red hair via Irish descent a sign of Viking origin. The Vikings raided Ireland too. I also have red headed Jewish relatives for what that info is worth.

My friends little sister has the most beautiful reddish-gingeriah hair. I'm so jealous!

I have red hair, and so does my DS. All anyone has said to us so far is that he has gorgeous hair!

My ginger comes from my dads side and they are Irish. I have a darkish ginger, more of the "classic Irish" shade that you see in adverts. Sadly it is not beautiful long curly tresses but flat and fine :( DS has a gorgeous sandy coloured ginger which gets lovely highlights in summer.

Oh I'm envious of red hair.
I love it. my 3 bffs have red hair and I would love it. I have horrible might mousy brown hair.
As a teenager I used to dye it auburn.

I hated my ginger hair when I was younger. Random men asking what colour my pubic hair is I started to love it as a teenager. It's long and thick and gets beautiful highlights from the sun. My DDs hair was very ginger when she was a toddler but it's going a darker brown/ginger now.

My DS (aged 5) has bright red hair; and we have only had negative comments twice; both from kids. Doesn't bother him though. Most people compliment him/me on it; so much so I have to make sure I tell my older DS that he is gorgeous too so he doesn't feel inferior (aged 7, brown hair and dark, rich brown eyes)

I just don't get this hate for ginger hair. Sorry you're getting this crap from people.

I think that is why nobody cares in Liverpool/wales

I have red hair. I am now 55 and it is just starting to fade somewhat, especially at the sides but my hairdresser tells me it just looks as if I've had highlights. My father had red hair when he was younger and when he died, aged 79, he still wasn't completely grey. I hope to follow in his footsteps!

I was the subject of various rude comments as a child so I can sympathise. It's amazing, given our politically correct society, that people feel they can be rude about red hair but you would never insult the colour of somebody's skin these days (well, you might but would risk getting into bother for it).

I can always tell when somebody has dyed their hair red. Various hairdressers over the years have said it is a difficult colour to emulate.

I often think when people make bitchy comments about ginger hair that it all boils down to pure jealousy. We don't necessarily want to stand out from the crowd but we do, whether we like it or not.

In my opinion, the only real downside is how quickly we burn in the sun (yet rarely get a suntan).

Dont get me started on the sunburn thing, ex FIL seems to think that I over react by insisting that DS is covered head to toe, that boy can burn when you turn the big light on, as can I!

At the start of one of our baby classes the teacher made comments about how her husband was really hoping their baby wasn't a ginger.

That was before I took my sons hood off but still!

I hoped DS would be ginger. He's got sandy hair but looks a bit ginger in some light so we call him a tinger (tinge of ginger). He has the colouring of a ginger though.

People are so rude. I would have loved to have red curly hair but it wasn't to be.
I always admire it on other people.

Oh yes, the pale skin comments are great too aren't they. I've not had it recently but in my younger days it was like people thought I was pale because I was too stupid to understand how to get a tan. I had lots of 'helpful' advice (mainly suggesting that I shouldn't use as much sun screen) including several women who rubbed oil in to my skin to 'bring out the tan' without even asking. I was also once told that 'in this day and age with sunbeds and fake tan' there is no need for anyone to be so pale- like it's headlice or something.

amused and badabing I promise I ask and am respectful, and never in a stranger on a bus type thing. It's completely offensive to stick my hands in some unsuspecting persons hair for many many reasons.

But if we're friends and close I'm going to ask.

Apparently it can be misconstrued as a sexual come on too. Wish I wasn't in my 20s when I found that out.

There was no one in living memory who had red hair when I came along.

Random white van passengers shouting "Oi! Ginge!" annoyed me no end.

I don't have as much white hair as the picture suggests, I was in a shop with lots of fluorescent lights when I took the picture.

Tiny boy's hair, and mine. (I was testing out a style for a do, I don't normally take pictures of the back of my head).

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Your ds hair is so gorgeous.

If you read novels from the fifties, all the sexiest women were redheads.

Both my DDs are gingery. It's not that surprising actually, despite it not being DH's or my hair colour, as we've got loads of redheads in our family. I love it, and DD1 tells people that her hair is browny red orange. DSis has stunning red hair and was bullied for it when she was younger.