That colleague made comment about ginger babies

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To be annoyed about a colleague making comments about ginger hair?

A colleague has recently come back from maternity leave and was talking about her dd.

She said she's so glad she's got brown hair, it would be the worst to have a ginger baby, I would of hated to have a ginger baby it would of been horrible.... she then glanced around the room and noticed my hair and made an awkward face.

I'm pregnant with my first and may well have a red haired baby, which I would personally love.

Is it the pregnancy hormones talking or am I right to be pissed off that she's targeting red hair.... and even red haired babies??

I'm petty (and also ginger) so I'd probably just have a loud conversation within earshot about how I really hope my baby has lovely, rare, firey red hair like me and not gross common poo brown.

But again, I am petty. Probably best to just ignore her and secretly hope little Brown Hair is a shit sleeper 👀

I don’t get why people pick on gingers. I’m not Caucasian and I think it’s fun that you guys have various hair and eye colours. Personally I think gingers are absolutely stunning and striking.

She’s being mean

Ginger solidarity. My kids ended up blonde, but I did hope I’d get red heads. Fingers crossed you do!

Of course YANBU! I feel like the tide is slowly turning with regards to people’s perception of red hair but there are still assholes about. My husband has red hair and I was over the moon when my daughter was born with similar colour but it’s now light brown!

What a ridiculous comment 🙄
Is she 10 years old?

Of course YANBU. I'm pregnant and we're both blond/gingery so likely to have a ginger baby! I would have said something if it were me. It's also insensitive of her if other colleagues are having issues with fertility or miscarriage, she should be grateful she has a baby.

I'd pass comment on how you'll be so glad if your DC inherit your celtic heritage/colouring!

Lush red hair runs through my maternal line (from Irish great nan) and I was very disappointed when my DC took after their DF with dark hair. However grown up DNephews have full on wild red beards and are rocking the Viking look so hopefully the gene might continue into the next generation!

You should have looked her in the eye and said "I'd rather ginger than rude".

She sounds ridiculous, my eldest son is a red head with brown eyes and he is beautiful, it’s such a lovely colour and each person has a different shade of red. However my mum and sister did say to me in hospital that if he came out red headed we could dye it - so were a bit apologetic when I had him, his grandmother (on dads side) and all her brothers were redheads. He’s now 23 and really gorgeous, people are ridiculous about red hair it is so vibrant and beautiful he’s got lovely freckles too. My other sons are dark haired so he’s the only one.

Absolutely love all shades of red hair. She sounds absolutely horrid.
People can have preferences, but how unbelievably rude and thick to vocalise it like that.

Silly woman. Red hair is gorgeous, and we have a higher pain threshold!

Ginger solidarity! We are in a minority - c.2% of the global population - and precious because we are rare. My DD has brown hair though 😊

I have the most beautiful red headed dd who’s nearly 4 and it’s this kind of crap from grown adults that honestly worries me for her. I am blonde and now dye my hair red to match her ( can’t get anything close to her beautiful natural colour no matter what I try!! though ) because I don’t want her to feel any type of way about her beautiful red hair.

I hope your colleagues next sh!t is a jaggy hedgehog.

She's just embarrassing herself with comments like that. Makes her sound stupid and old fashioned. Try not to worry about it. I have a colleague who slightly jokes about gingers but I think it's just a way for thinking of shit to day, or a habit from the playground. I think these days it's passé to laugh about red hair.

How rude of her!

I personally think red hair is beautiful!

I hope your work colleagues are of the same opinion.

I'm a lot older than you and picking on people with ginger (red) hair has always been a 'thing'. Why, I don't know, but it is just as bad as being racist, or any other predjudice, making others feel uncomfortable or upset (could also go as far as bullying) and the perpetrators should be called out in the same way.

When I was young my hair was naturally sort of brown with auburn lights in it. Then in my late teens, 20s and 30s I used to always dye my hair with henna because I loved red hair.
I think naturally "ginger " hair is gorgeous. I've never understood the teasing and bullying about it.
Your colleague was being ridiculous and ignorant. And to be honest if she thinks a baby being with the "wrong" colour hair is terrible how would she have coped with her baby being born with an illness or disability?
All babies are beautiful.

I constantly bang on about how gorgeous ginger hair is because I'm traumatised by my mother who constantly banged on about how having a ginger baby would be disgusting.. and 'the worst'
She actually 'joked' that she would dye my babies hair in the night if it turned out they were ginger.
Not really very funny is it. But she tells me to 'stop being so sensitive'
I hate people who just try and pass pure nastiness off as humour.
I genuinely adore ginger hair BTW and would have loved it if any of mine turned out to have it. It's the rarest colouring to have so is very special.
Just ignore these horrible people who seem to claw self esteem by putting down anyone who is different to them. They are sad people deep down. Imagine commenting on a tiny sweet babies appearance negatively.. you'd have to be really fucked up inside.

I'd have been pissed off at that too. Red and finer hair is beautiful.

*ginger !

She’s a twat. I hope your kid has beautiful red hair so she feels like a tit every time she looks at you.

I'd call it right out and be very vocal. And I am very quiet, non confrontational but am ginger. And I find it genuinely upsetting. I've had children picked on by teachers for it even. She should be ashamed.

I am completely lost as to why ginger hair is seen as such an issue in Britain (or is it just England?).

I'm not from here and love red hair. I grew up deperately wanting to be Jinny Manders from the books and used to try every trick in the book to turn my hair into that colour.

OP- your colleague is an idiot.

It’s crazy that people still say this sort of thing. I’d be really offended if I had ginger hair.

I have 2 colleagues (one male, one female) that are ginger and they both make self-deprecating comments about it. I find it sad; it’s like they have to do it before anyone else does. When the woman was pregnant, she often commented how she was hoping her baby would not be ginger like her. (She is)

Very rude of her. My son was strawberry blonde when he was born but unfortunately it changed to a sort of dusky blonde when he was around one. I was so disappointed! I'd love my kids to have ginger hair. It's such a beautiful colour. I have my fingers crossed for the next one 😅