To think people are so mean about ginger hair!

[Mopmum35]

So why are people so mean and disrespectful of people with ginger hair?

It really upsets me.
What is wrong with ginger hair?
The amount of people that take the piss is shocking! I'm not ginger but it still gets on my wick. It's sad. Does anyone agree?

Anti-ginger sentiment is definitely a thing but I don’t remember it always being so. When I was a child “ginger nut” was probably the worst insult for red heads. FWIW, I regard the gingers as a bit exotic and am actually quite envious of their hair colour.

I've got close friends with ginger hair and they dont get any abuse about it, if anything they get people commenting on how lovely it is. Both men and women.

I know there are little jokes here and there but adults just dont seem to actually take the piss.

I'm strawberry blonde and I've only ever had compliments about my hair colour.

But red hair is unusual. People who stand out get picked on by dickheads. It's got very little to do with the hair colour itself and everything to do with the fact that they're dickheads.

Anti-ginger sentiment is definitely a thing but I don’t remember it always being so.

I'm a red-head, and it is probably better now than it used to be! The worst was the full grown men asking me what colour my pubes are, which was a very regular occurrence from the age of 12 or 13.

I'm a red head and yes, constant. If it's not my hair, it's my skin colour

My 13yo DD2 is fed up at being called ginger at school she’s not even ginger, blonde with a tinge of red in the sun. DD3 has the most stunning auburn hair and I dread her going to high school. Red hair truly is stunning but I do remember all the ginger pubes jokes at school too.

I think it's better now than it used to be tbh. I was bullied at school 15 years ago, "irn-bru heed" was the favourite comparison (unsurprisingly living in Scotland) and people asking if the carpet matched the curtains. I never even understood what that meant in my early teens!

I bumped into the main girl who bullied me a few years ago and imagine my surprise to see she'd bloody dyed her hair ginger

I only ever get compliments on my hair these days and my DS who has ginger hair has never had a bad word said to him about it as far as I'm aware.

My hair is auburn and I used to dislike it when I was younger because I’d get teased about it. Now I love it, it’s a unique colour. People will sadly always pick on those who are different.

I never got any problems at school for being a redhead. I seem to be in the minority.

There is one adult I know who always says they hates gingers (in my presence) but the most worrying thing about that is that one of their children has red hair I worry about the child more than the idiot!

The dickheads who can no longer publicly be racist or xenophobic are running out of people to abuse so gingers are one of the few groups that can get abused and insulted by them and get away with it.

I was bullied throughout school for it. Now I love how different it is.

You would be surprised how many parents come into my salon asking can I do their daughters hair because it's ginger. These children are normally 9-13 aswell.

Sad thing is these young girls don't know how beautiful their hair is and how many clients spend a lot getting their hair colour, that they hate because of their parents.

OP is spot on in my opinion.

I think ginger/red hair is really attractive. I find women with it really beautiful

My best friend naturally has the reddest most beautiful loosely curled hair. She was teased about it relentlessly at school and I never understood why. She has a son now and he has the most beautiful beautiful hair as she did and I hope this trend of bullying for it dies out.

My beautiful auburn haired friend told me she was constantly called ‘ginger pubes’ throughout her seven years of all-girl grammar school.

The dickheads who can no longer publicly be racist or xenophobic are running out of people to abuse so gingers are one of the few groups that can get abused and insulted by them and get away with it

And vegans.

Auburn hair is so beautiful!

Yep. I've got read hair I was bullied for years about it.

when I had my daughter I asked if she had red hair and they said no don't worry I wasn't worried I wanted it!

My H is a red head and I love it. It’s the only hair colour that comes with its own quirks:

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/redheads-genetic-traits-ginger-hair-study-dna-the-big-redhead-book-erin-la-rosa-a8090276.html

Go abroad! In other countries ginger hair is considered exotic and highly attractive.

I get a lot less abuse now than I used to and I’m hopeful that DS will fare better at school than I did.

DS is a surprise to redhead (none on either side of the family for many generations) and his hair is the colour of a freshly minted penny. It’s gorgeous! He gets no crap at school, but then he’s one of three redheads in his class and they’re all feisty types, so maybe the other kids don’t dare.

I got the 'collar and cuffs' comments from about the age of 13 as well- as a PP said, often from grown men. I hated my hair colour until I was about 21 when it dawned on me that a) it was actually quite cool to stand out and b) it was an excellent way of identifying arseholes before wasting too much effort getting to know them.

As an adult I thought the anti-ginger thing had perhaps disappeared until I went to a mother and baby group where a small group of mums were discussing whether they had been hoping for a boy or a girl. One of them commented that she would have been happy with either 'as long as it's not ginger'- the others wholeheartedly agreed. One of them did notice me and the mum of a red headed baby looking at eachother and shrugged it off with a 'no offence, but you know what we mean, right'.

Not this old chestnut again.

Woman on our school group was complaining about school photo colouring. Fair enough that the colour isn’t right, but to complain about red rather than ‘pretty blonde’ seemed unnecessary.