Funky hair on Gransnet

"can imagine all kinds of redheads looking warily around in public spaces."

And with good reason. I wonder how many school girls have faced harassment today, or the equally unpleasant sense of rejection if no lad bothered.

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I hope this works!
I wanted this style:

But I got this style:

But you can't tell who's a Muslim or lesbian just by looking at them (usually!). So not the same.

But I agree that it's unpleasant, Ginger is not 'red' or 'strawberry blonde', it is what it is and a lot of children and young people are bullied if they have it.

I love your hair Penstemmon - can you just 'wash and go'

It's also pandering to those who mock and insult people with ginger hair, and using 'a ginger' as a noun to describe the person is itself dubious.
Oh dear, I will tell DS not to call his sister 'Ginge' any more.
He usually calls her 'Ginger' with hard 'G's
how norty

Oh dear ...
Brothers!

Very true ( about ginger) but actually the 'ginGer' thing only came about 25 years ago or so, and it was used as an insult.I remember a few ginger haired children at school, and one girl got called 'freckles' but don't recall anyone saying a thing about the hair colour.However by the time our children were at school, I heard that there was some bullying / jeering about the colour.Hard to understand, as it's a lovely colour, from a pale strawberry blonde through to auburn.It's also a minority colour, there are only a tiny percentage of natural redheads in the world.
Jalima give the little perisher a clip round the ear

jalima I love your new look, your outfit in particular is stunning!

Be careful on those shoes though, you could trip up.

How do you think I broke my ankle rosesarered?

They have now gone to the charity shop

Jalima give the little perisher a clip round the ear^
I don't remember him ever saying anything like that when they were growing up; she being the elder may well have given him a clip round the ear!
They love each other really and I have never heard him say it to anyone else.

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1. My hair at ? 2ish.
2. My hair at 60ish totally frizzy.
3. My Great grandmothers hair. Pre 1910
I am a hairdressers nightmare.

My hair at 2ish was very like yours Nelliemoser, only very blonde.
My hair at 70ish sticks out all over the place unless tamed and is dark.

Somewhere along the way I must have had a hair transplant without noticing.

ps yours looks very good and easy to manage!

No Mair as a member of a Ginger family we are not offended! DH also ginger (well he was!) plus my mum, brother, DD1 and DGD1 and DGS2. Ginger and proud. gingerparrot.co.uk/ DGS2 was junior ginger of the month last year!

So what do you call someone who has brown hair and a ginger beard with grey bits?
Piebald?

Penstmmon

I am delighted to hear youre proud and happy about your red hair. However this does not mean name calling and prejudice against ginger hair is OK, and it does exist and its real. You do not speak for every ginger person! Youve got a magnificent mop of hair but plenty who have thin strawberry blonde hair are a lot less secure or happy to be called "a ginger"

Most black people , Muslims and Lesbians are proud and happy to be what they are too, but it would still not make a 'Kiss a black/Muslim/Lesbian day' an OK thing to hold.

Of course I don't speak for all people with ginger hair! And you do not have to explain to me about prejudice and name calling as my family have experienced that!

One of the reasons groups like Ginger Parrot are established is to take back control of the language that others try to use against you and undermines what bullies try to use 'against ' you.

DD is more copper - I used to call her Copper Knob

I suppose that could be construed as rude too.

But you can't tell who's a Muslim or lesbian just by looking at them (usually!). So not the same.

You often can, but I agree its not quite the same, but a close enough parallel to make my point, its racist and encouraging sexual harrassment

But I agree that it's unpleasant, Ginger is not 'red' or 'strawberry blonde', it is what it is and a lot of children and young people are bullied if they have it.

I think ginger/red are more or less interchangeable and includes strawberry blonde, the latter being a polite description of light ginger. Young people do get teased (bullied) a lot, in much the way people with glasses were once teased (bullied) , one symptom is the deliberate mispronunciation of the word with a hard 'g' and to rhyme with ringer.

Ginger and proud. gingerparrot.co.uk/ DGS2 was junior ginger of the month last year!
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Ginger hair is dying out sadly. In Britain and Ireland we have the greatest concentration. Its a recessive gene so important that ginger haired people marry other ginger haired.

I had a ginger haired grandfather but unfortunately he married a brown haired wife and none of his three children got his hair.

My son used to live next door to a ginger haired family, husband and wife and all three kids. I am afraid he used to call them The Gingers

My DD1 (now 40), DGD1 11 and DGS 4 have not had any bullying as a result of hair colour. DH calls them both ginger..which is what he was called as a boy. My mum was one of three girls.. all had dead straight red /ginger hair and were extremely freckled. They did suffer and mum was very happy that I was not a real red head as she did not want me to be teased.

Maybe the fact that ginger hair is rare, is why people / children are rude about it?
DH has sandy hair ( not quite the same, but close) and DS the same, but I am not, and our DD's are not either.I always hoped that one of the DD's would be the same pretty colour ( especially as they had long hair) but it stayed blonde, then turned brown.
Perhaps this 'kiss a ginger ' day was started to counteract any bullying, but in my view it draws attention and may be mortifying to youngsters.
Although you and your family are fine with it Penstemon so maybe we are overthinking it ?

DH and DS never had any problems either,nor shortage of girlfriends.

Thank you Jalima - your photos really made me laugh! Whenever I came home from the hairdressers as a teenager yet again unhappy with my new hair cut my darling mum - searching for something positive to say - would come out with "Well at least it's clean!".

I am going to wash it now - have been eyeing up the scissors but unfortunately can't add anything to the back which is too short! The sides need graduating in.

Perhaps I should suggest she goes to Specsavers.
Honestly - it does look like Grayson Perry' style in that picture

Luckily it has snowed here so I can wear a hat.