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??

At a wedding recently, a family friend was blabbing on about her new granddaughter and the absolute disgust on her face when she said "oh she's just gorgeous but it looks like she'll have red hair, it's such a shame!" was shocking. Me and my mum have red hair, and 2 of my children have red hair. I thought my mum was going to deck her 😁It's mad that grown adults think like that about anyone let alone babies!

I’d just say to her that I think it’s a real shame her baby won’t be able to create its own vitamin D.

Perfect.
My DD has red hair and the comments are very tiresome. Most people are nice but there's always a twat.

She sounds stupid but not someone whose opinion is worth bothering about. I'm a red head in my late 50s and have heard this kind of shit for as long as I can remember. It used to bother me when I was young but now I just pity anyone who is both so thick as to hold such opinions and unpleasant enough to voice them in public.

Some people are pathetic. It does make me worry about my little 2 year old boy with red curls! Kids don't care but their brains poisoned by the small minded 'adults' who raise them.

The british hatred of “gingers” is so odd to me! Here it would be considered notable and beautiful.

I voted yabu because you really should not care what anybody saying something so idiotic thinks.

It's vile that this is still socially acceptable When I had my brown haired DS( I'm ginger) the nurse said" Ahh what a lovely head of hair! You must be so relieved he's not ginger!"

I hope you have a gorgeous little fire haired baby, bring it to work and bang on about how beautiful they are !

Don't mind her. I say this genuinely - I absolutely love red hair, and particularly on a child. It's so striking.

I think I'd respond and say something like well let's hope your child has someone else in the family's genes when it comes to grace and intelligence
Red hair is awesome! (I'm previously blonde/brown and now sporting quite grey hair under my dye lol 😂

Ginger solidarity!
we are rare and special mutants- as pp noted, we brew our own vitamin D! People will always be envious and bitter 😉

Red hair is gorgeous. Ignore the rude cow.

I would have said something to the colleague. I have red hair. I was bullied at school because of it. My DD has red hair, and I do worry she will have a similar experience as me. Even though everyone always says how lovely her hair colour is - and it is beautiful.

I saw a marketing campaign at an airport for something in a coffee shop once, with the slogan “what’s wrong with being ginger?”. It was written on a huge sign in departures. I emailed them, explaining my experience and how I found the slogan offensive. It was removed. Unbelievable.

I don’t have time for twatty attitudes towards a hair colour.

Be careful anyone who is relying on that...

I thought I did but my body is shit and my vitamin D was 9 when I was tested. Had to have a high dose course and now take 4000IU daily!

I had a colleague who would compare able bodied people’s appearances to those with Down syndrome (negatively) some people are just absolute shallow arseholes and don’t know how to read a room.

People like your colleague are just massive twats.

So immature.

What a prat she is. I've red hair as has my my daughter. Son is more of a strawberry blonde but we are all very curly. Teasing 'gingers' is still very much a thing unfortunately but I think more and more people admire the colour now. As for high pain threshold I can agree with that. My daughter is so stoical in the face of pain that she didn't even cry with a broken bone!

You say the colleague was rude but then you add that you were 'disappointed your kid is blonde'.....

I don't think you're very different from the colleague.

Tell her she's showing her age. The younger generation don't seem to be nasty about red hair and are more tolerant generally. Dd 17 has never had any issues. I've only heard comments from adults about it. Always adults who aren't very bright.

Ime ginger babies get way more attention!! Sadly, very sadly my teen dd dyes hers black. Not because it's ginger but she had a Goth phase!! Roots too much to handle she says!

It IS racist. The reason British people find it ‘acceptable’ to mock ginger hair is because it’s associated with being Irish.

It harks back to a horrible time when it was normal in Britain to discriminate against Irish people. It’s disgusting and I call it out when I can because I think people often doesn’t realise that their silly ‘anything but a ginger!’ comments are rooted in racism.

I can't speak for everywhere but we live in South London and dd17 has never had any issues. Young people seem to be more tolerant these days than a lot of adults were

I pay an absolute fortune to get my hair a decent approximation of ginger as a boring natural brunette whereas my daughter has the most beautiful red hair naturally. I would LOVE to be mistaken for a natural red head.

The derogatory comments stem from the historical anti-Irish or anti-Celtic mentality.

Just be satisfied that she's obviously a moron to make a comment like that.

Ginger hair is lovely. I spent hundreds in my 20s dying mine, alas now I'm old and skint I'm back to my natural mousey blonde.

This has reminded me though that I once worked with someone who insisted that the naturally ginger bloke at work smelt of piss and twiglets because all gingers do. He was exactly the sort of twat that you would imagine he is from that statement.

Haha, I generally have zero interest in babies, but ginger babies attract me like a moth to a flame, I think they're gorgeous. I always tell the mum, if I get the chance, how stunning their baby's hair is. I don't intend to have any children, but if I did they would be very likely to have red hair. Everyone in my family on both sides is either a blond(e) or a redhead.
(I can never believe that derogatory comments about red hair is anything but jealousy)