My parents were both redheads, so are my sister, brother, and I. We all got teased (some of it pretty mean-spirited) but not to this extent.

Sounds like my mother’s family. Exactly like her story, both parents and her older brother and sister are all red. Her parents had a joke that if any kid was born without red hair they’d know a scandal was up.

And she told me the same thing, that kids teased her relentlessly.

But why? I’ve never understood that one. I’ve never had the compulsion to insult someone because their hair is red.

Let me just say this, most of the arsehats who teased me in school are now bald or balding. I still have a (relatively) thick head of coppery red hair, a touch of white at the temples and in my sideburns. In the autumn when all the leaves turning gold and red and I’m dressed in a black turtleneck, jeans, and tweed jacket, I look pretty damned handsome.

No kidding. I have pictures.

p.s. I thought the Lohan thing had less to do with color than with inflammation.

Any redheads who feel unwelcome in Europe are quite welcome her in California.

Just pretend you’re a Mexican, no papers needed.

My experience was the opposite. Men wanted to bag the redhead, not make fun.

CrimsonFisted on June 2, 2007 at 9:11 PM

Not that I’m interested in men but red hair does seem to attract the opposite sex.

Politically correct isn’t correct politically, It’s really just an approved (and focused) form of prejudice.

Oh, and this is one of the stupidest f-ing things I’ve ever read:

Primatologists know humans, apes and monkeys can see red, but have quarreled over what initially locked the adaptation into place. Did it first help primates find meals, or was the ability to see a red-headed, red-skinned mate from a mile away the first benefit of full-color vision?

A new study shows that apes first evolved color vision to help them forage food, after which nature made red the sexiest color around and spiked apes’ evolutionary tree with red hair and skin. The findings are detailed in this week’s issue of the American Naturalist.

Now there’s a good ship,
H.M.S. Cock-Robin.
On her home trip,
Up and down she’s bobbin’
Oh the crew’s pretty tough.
The sea is so rough.
They’re all fed up and say
That they’ve had more than enough.

Forty-seven ginger-headed sailors
You can bet you’re going to hear them when they hail us
An old maid down in Devon
Said my idea of heaven
Is forty-seven ginger-headed sailors.

Entelechy..I am SHOCKED you didnt include ME! :)

My first trip to the UK many years ago was a historical sabbatical that took me thru Cornwall and then up thru Wales. I encountered many stares and much comment about my hair. I am only an auburn..not a carrottop..but over there, it makes no difference. If you are “redhead”, you are some a source of derision or comment. Strange indeed for a Southern Scots-Irish who knows LOTS of freckled-faced redheads of all hues. It was an awakening of sorts. Especially when I was “profiled” 4 times before I was allowed to board my flight home because the “Irish” were “rebelling” again.

But “firecrotch”? I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya. He is sooooo, uhhh, shocking. I hope he doesn’t come to my house and ring my doorbell to try and shock me in some way. I might have a heart attack! Idiot.

They just need to stand up to that bully one time, and She will quit her show early.

abinitioadinfinitum on June 2, 2007 at 8:33 PM

Exactly.

However I am thinking about forming the GCLU, take donations, put them in my freezer and retire.

They are making an issue out of nothing… being called a “carrot top” is a fact of life, they better get used to it, and deal with it.

F15Mech on June 2, 2007 at 8:07 PM

They just need to stand up to that bully one time, and She will quit her show early.

Lehosh on June 2, 2007 at 7:37 PM

I am a ginger (as is my mom, brothers, niece and nephew) and I am going to call the GCLU (Ginger Civil Liberties Union) and complain about the oppression/prejudice we “gingers face”.

Just kidding about the GCLU.

Being called a “carrot top” was a fact of life, when I was a kid.

The best way to counter that was to point out that “carrot tops” are, in fact green. Once I did that (and all my other classmates laughed at the other kid) I was good to go until next year.

Unless this family has some sort of “carrot top stalker”…In which case moving will not help

They are making an issue out of nothing… being called a “carrot top” is a fact of life, they better get used to it, and deal with it.

Frankly, all the useless and idiotic conflict won’t ever come to an end until everyone finally admits that they’re gay. Come on! Admit it, everyone! You’re gay!

frankj on June 2, 2007 at 7:53 PM

Not exactly, but everyone has AIDS.

/team america world police

I did know twin ginger babes when I was in grammar school and …well never mind, I will keep my fantasies to myself.

According to the tree, or phylogeny, color vision arose first, followed by the appearance of red hair, skin and advanced mating systems.

I almost married a redhead, twice! My loss, that’s for sure.

How do we know Karol’s gay?
“I’m looking forward to seeing hot lesbians.”

and

Are you calling me gay?! That would make twice today.
Karol on June 2, 2007 at 7:03 PM

It IS all about you Karol…/s
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