Honest opinion of gingers

[EmmaBray]

Hello, my work colleague is a male ginge and seems to regard himself as being a suitable subject for the undateables! He's a lovely man and would do anything for anyone and he is really funny once he opens up. Problem is he's painfully shy at first especially around women, think looking at his feet whilst talking. He is a bit naive and has been taken for a fool before now as well as having people openly insult him with regards to his colouring. Anyway to cut a long story short he has given up on looking altogether since his last online dating fiasco. Any thoughts negative or positive to help?

[Barabajagal]

Red hair doesn't seem to have held Eddie Redmayne back. He's doing ok by all accounts.

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

Bollocks.

I'm with worra - I can't believe you're not embroidering the truth.

My partner's ginger. She's gorgeous. But I'd really doubt her good judgment if she came in one morning sure of that fact because randomers on the internet told her so!

[JolseBaby]

Oooh I love the redheads. My first boyfriend had ginger hair - the classic ginger with the milky pale skin and freckles. I am mildly obsessed with my friend's DD who has the most gorgeous rose-gold hair. It is stunning

I don't get the hysteria about ginger hair, but then I spent a long time living in Scotland, where red hair is more common.

[peggyundercrackers]

My DH has a preference for red heads, he went out with three of them before we went out together. Red hair runs in both our families, no one has any issues with it and no one really mentions it. I had a friend when I was younger who had red hair, everyone called him carrot even his own parents - they were a bit mad though. Our ds has red hair, he's lovely but we know he will get teased about it but will make sure it doesn't get to him.

[MadeMan]

Most people in Britain have probably got a bit of ginge in their genes, so if it's not on their head it'll be on their legs or bum or somewhere.

[ComposHatComesBack]

Tell him to move to Scotland. It is ginger paradise and there's so many gingers that the non-ginger kids get bullied here.

A former work colleague of mine - really nice guy but by his own admission average looking - had ginger hair in a ponytail and women from overseas used to go wild for him thinking he was some sort of extra in 'Braveheart'.

He took full advantage!

[Themodernuriahheep]

I love it and always wanted red hair. Gorgeous Celt or Kent...

[steff13]

I love redheads so much I gave birth to one. :)

Here in the US, bias against red-headed people is not really a thing; at least not where I live. When #2 son was born, it was a constant barrage of "look at that gorgeous red hair!"

I don't know how anyone could look at someone like Karen Gillan or Damien Lewis and think redheads are not attractive.

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

'... ginger hair in a ponytail ...'



Oh, sorry, I'm back, what did I miss?!

[AtrociousCircumstance]

You're perpetuating this shit, OP, with your thread title and doltish attitude.

'Honest opinion of gingers' as if they're a different species?!

You seem a little bit hard of thinking.

[Siesta]

I think the anti red head vibe in the UK is ridiculous. It's a total none issue in other countries.

[Justneedsomesleepnow]

Are you honestly limping all men with red/ginger hair together and expecting a reasonable snswer? Have you heard of stereotypes? Also I find your post offensive - there is an underlying insinuation that people with red/ginger hair are less attractive...
Utterly bonkers post..

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

S'true, usual.

Some of us have ginger sidebollocks, too.

[Buttercup443]

Ooh, I have a bit of a thing for gingers

Husband has copper in his beard and DS is strawberry blond but was born bright red haired.

I have auburn hair so hoping to ginger grandchildren.

I think they are beautiful and special. Love the colouring esp with green eyes and freckles. I swoon over Pinterest pics of females and men with a bit of hinge and brown eyes..sigh.

They'll never go grey, beautiful stand-out colour, just adore it. Secretly wish I was red-haired

[AustinAmbassadorYReg]

I can tell you now, there is absolutely no way that its his hair colour that will be holding him back. Some people can be shallow about that sort of thing, yes, but the vast majority of us aren't like that, thank god.

I am not a red-head but I do have some ginger hair coming through as I get older. I'm planning to dye it completely ginger soon and I can't bloody wait. Its going to look awesome

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

You know they do go grey, right, butter? They get white hairs same as the rest of us.

[Justneedsomesleepnow]

Please stop saying ' I have a thing for gingers'.
They are just people with a different colour of hair, not a different species.
Why pick on someone/single them out for hair colour?!

[ComposHatComesBack]

Alas the ponytail is no more Jeanne

I think Damien Lewis in Homeland may have inspired him to get it chopped off .

[AtrociousCircumstance]

Exactly. Some redheads are sexy and captivating. Some aren't.

Stupidity is universally unappealing.

[Buttercup443]

Ginger, dammit I hate autocorrect

[Buttercup443]

Austin me too. I have lots of red tints in my natural hair. When I'll got grey I'll let them have it with both barrels and I'm going dark red

[steff13]

My father and grandmother both had red hair, and they never went grey. My dad died in his 50s, but my grandmother lived to 95, and never had more than a few strands of grey. Perhaps it's just good genes.

[WorraLiberty]

I have to say I love this irony in this post from JolseBaby though

"I am mildly obsessed with my friend's DD who has the most gorgeous rose-gold hair. It is stunning"

"I don't get the hysteria about ginger hair"