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??

DS (15) has red hair and the only teasing he's had at school is asking if he hates Mondays and likes lasagne (both are true for him) in comparison to Garfield the cat. No-one has been as rude as your colleague so hopefully the younger generation are a bit more mature towards this.

She was rude and didn't think.
Is her husband a ginger? Why was she hoping not to have a red headed child?

Red hair is gorgeous.

My red haired friend hates her pale and freckled skin, that often goes with the red hair colour.
Maybe your colleague wanted her child to have hardier, less sunburn prone, skin and was not really meaning that red hair looks worse than brown..

DS1 has fab auburn hair…he was a gorgeous toddler and at 17 has grown into a handsome teenager. However, he was super self conscious about his colouring in the early / mid teens but now totally rocking it.

DH mid-brown, me brunette. DS2 only a slight strawberry tinge in the sun. Red haired grandparents on both sides.

As the mum of a beautiful ginger baby who is now a beautiful ginger 17-year-old (although it's very slowly turning more strawberry blond now), I hate comments like this. I had nothing but positive comments when DS was small. He did get a bit of grief from some of the other boys at primary, which was a shock to him because he loved his hair until that point. He quickly perfected a deadpan 'How original' and the comments fizzled out as he got older.

I was bullied all my childhood for my ginger hair, it was unbearable at times, so her comment would have really upset me. She’s no better than a racist in my opinion.

Red head here too and got kids with blonde bar the last one and he has red haire (ginger) we both rock our ginger locks and don’t give two shits

That's a horrible comment to make. I am blonde and my kids are blonde and dark brown haired. My niece has Auburn hair. It's beautiful and shines amazingly.

Your colleague is a dick. Love red hair, will never understand the disdain (and worse) some people seem to have for it. My husband is red and while on one hand I’m hoping our baby has red hair when they’re born, I also don’t want them getting shit from people about it.

I love red hair. There was a girl in my year with gorgeous strawberry blonde hair I was so jealous.

I have long auburn hair and have had multiple strangers come up to me and say how lovely the colour is.

If any redheads ever need to feel good, visit the USA - every time I have been there I have been inundated with compliments about my hair colour!

YANBU. It can seem like a silly, insignificant thing to get worked up about (ginger hate), but really it adds up over time for people. Frequently hearing jabs and unpleasant comments about ginger hair could have a big impact on someone's self esteem and self perception. It's simply unnecessary, AND, ridiculous, because red hair is absolutely beautiful.

Your colleague is very dim.
Just ignore.
My nearly 18 year old is a redhead. She went through a self-conscious phase (no doubt due to idiotic and rude comments by people like your colleague) but she loves it now.

Red hair is gorgeous. What an ignorant thing for her to say.

I wouldn't give it another thought. she sounds like a little child. I mean how immature is that. And she is wrong. Fellow ginger here. it's the best hair colour of them all!

You'd love to say back "Oh how strange! I'll be devastated if the baby turns out to have brown hair - obviously we're all hoping for red like mine! Each to their own, right?"

Your co-worker is a bitch. Now you and all your colleagues know this too.

(As it happens, I'm being followed around the internet by an ad for Toast with a model with flaming red hair.)

(Also - I also wanted to be Jinny Manders and hated my boring brown hair growing up! There were four girls in my class in school with red hair and I was so jealous!)

Red hair is so beautiful, your colleague is pathetic hopefully she’s mortified.

She sounds ridiculous. I would pay no attention to her at all.

My eldest has the most wonderful bright orange hair and I just pray he doesn’t end up at school with kids who have parents like this awful woman.

As a fellow ginger, this really pisses me off! My SIL was very vocal about hating red hair and didn't know what she would have done if one of her babies had been born with red hair?!?! I mean WTAF?!?

Your colleague is awful and I hope she cringes until she turns inside out.

@UneTasse - I also wanted so desperately to be Jinny Manders, and could never understand why my parents wouldn't up sticks and buy a property with stables and acres of land, never mind that I could barely stay on my friend's short fat armchair of a pony!!

How embarrassing for her. Silly woman. Bet she feels like right tool now.
It's definitely rude but she's no doubt ashamed and won't be saying stuff like that again.
When your baby is born you can show off some pictures and say loudly 'oh, I'd better not show Linda, as we know how much she hates ginger babies! She'll probably need therapy if she even catches a glimpse'

What a stupid thing to say.
Beyond the rudeness of it, it's time to end that ridiculous ginger stigma that leads to bullying at school. How can it be ok?

I’m gingery & all my parents / siblings / nieces etc are. Sadly my Dc’s are blonde but hey-ho.

”Ginger-ism” is the last acceptable face of colour prejudice and it’s abhorrent and double-standards whilst everyone’s waving ‘BLM’ flags

I’d’ve looked her STRAIGHT in the eye and said: “I wasn’t aware colour prejudice is allowed in this workplace?” 🤨

Call it out - it’s discrimination on a person’s colour. It’s not ok to any race / colour / ethnicity. It’s not ok at all.

Stupid little bitch who’s sense of ‘humour’ got stuck in the 1970’s. 🙄

Yanbu she was horrid and rude and ginger-ist

Indeed