There was an alarming story in the news last week about a family who were forced to move house after being the subject of intolerable abuse. All the family members have red hair, well there's no disguising the fact, they're proper gingers.
At first, you could laugh this off, but apparently, now that the fuckwits amongst the population are no longer allowed to hurl abuse at people because of their skin colour or sexuality, they're picking on people with red hair.
Is gingerism the new racism? I guess so. It's picking on people because of the way they are.
The reason I'm mentioning this is because of a slight faux pas of mine last week, a couple of days the news story of the ginger bullying victims broke. In a teaching session, I questioned whether it was wise or fair to measure the height of children as they start school since extraordinarily short or children would perhaps feel singled out. I added "Poor things, all they'd need is to be ginger too and their confidence could be destroyed for life!"
Of course, there was a lass with ginger hair amongst the students and I found myself ankle-deep in a hole that I had to climb out of. Since my comment was made in order to point out that people - children - pick on folk for any reason possible and that anything that makes you stand out from a crowd, especially when you're young, automatically makes you a target. Plus, I was was pretty ginger as a kid. I've been there. I felt the ginger pain. It was OK.
One of the other students, exclaimed, "Well, you can always dye your hair!"
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I agree with Rodrigo. Whatever the fuck he's saying.......
Thing is, you're ginger too, so it could've been taken as someone who knows what it's like to be picked on.
That said, ginger pubes.... what's not to pick on!?
Many people have suffered an early ginger period and lived to tell the tale.
I'm sure there must be somebody out there called Ginger Minge.
I may post on the subject later.
Ginger Minge - greatest stripper name ever.
Of course, some gingers are HOT!
Of course red heads are hot!
The problem with being a red head is that, although there are similar proportions in population who are total cocks (Chris Evans, Mick Hucknall), fairly decent, etc, because they're red-heads, they tick out like a sore thumb, so you remember them for being a total cock who is also a red head.
Garfer, didn't you do gingers as one of your first ever posts?
Yes, it's THIS one! and also this one.
My ex wife used to dye her hair ginger. I think she wanted to be hated. She didn't need to try that hard.
Actually, I worked for Ginge Minge - or at least that's what we called her behind her back - years ago in England. I think only the English are Ginge because you definitely don't see many around here.
That's easy for Rodrigo to say. But what about the "dye your hair" shit? What then? Bleach your skin, walk on tip-toe, stoop lower, go blind as you throw your specs away? Where does it end?
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