Ginger

My mother and her 2 sisters were ginger haired.. dead straight orange hair and often got teased. My husband has (had!) ginger hair too..thick curly ginger hair and was the butt of jokes. Our elder DD has thick curly red hair.. my DGDs immediately thought she looked like the heroine, Merrida, from the recent film Brave, but has not suffered from teasing or jokes. I like to think that more of the younger generation now look beyond appearance! Maybe to do with all that equalities and personal /social education that is /was on the school curriculum.

I think red hair is stunning! As a child I wished for flame coloured hair instead of my 'mousy' locks. I am always shocked to hear this kind of abuse, it may not be racism, but it is definitely discrimination. I remember Oprah Winfrey doing an experiment on her audience where all blue eyed people were treated badly and discriminated against by her staff. They were furious! It just demonstrated what some members of the human race have to put up with every day.

Natural Red Heads always seem to have such wonderful thick hair and I am extreamly jealous,both of my boys had their fathers ginger cast to their hair which in the summer went very blonde now they are both 30+ and they only have the colouring when they grow a beard,such a shame.I have never had any untoward comments when they where little but would very much take offence if anything had been said about their hair colour be it red/black/brown etc.