there is an old, southpark episode about "Gingervitus". as always very offensive.

Ginger Kids
Cartman suffers from a mysterious and sudden on-set of the disease, Gingervitus. Sick and tired of being ripped-on because he now has red hair, light skin and freckles, he rallies all ginger kids everywhere to fight against discrimination.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/911/

It's so stupid! i LOVE ginger boys. Red hair, pale skin, freckles, get me HOT!!! mmmm PAUL BETTANY, DAMIAN LEWIS.

I also think ginger girls are gorgeous! If I was born white, I'd want to be born with fiery red hair or be raven-haired.

My nanny was from Scotland and had the most gorgeous thick red hair. I've never seen anyone since with hair as beautiful as her's. She was always surprised how people in Canada fawned over her hair, because she had always been teased back home.

'Gingerism appears to be ongoing, especially in Britain.'
Definately. It goes on a lot here, but it is mostly seen as 'acceptable' abuse. That's how these kind of adverts keep getting made.

In my experience, no-one really kicks up a fuss if a ginger child is being teased for their hair by the other kids, compared to say, if they were teasing a child of a different ethnic group for how they look. And I think it gets worse for teenagers - the term used a lot when I was at school was ging-er (pronounced like ringer) - i.e. from 'ginger minger' (minger = ugly).

There's also a sketch show quite popular here, the Catherine Tate show (I don't know whether you have it at all in the U.S.). But she does a sketch about ginger abuse. This link shows it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhLIjlTNSk

It would be funny...if gingerism was just 'lighthearted teasing', as many people seem to view it here in the UK. But once you are aware of how gingerism actually does ruin lives, it becomes kind of...well, slightly eerie.

I have naturally red hair and do get offended at commercials like this. I love my hair but definitely was teased in school for my red hair (this was before ginger was a popular term--mostly called carrot top). I have many friends that have told me that they think "gingers are ugly, I could never be attracted to a ginger, you gingers freak me out" and other things similar to this. I would say this gingerism is definitely catching on in the US and is mostly "followed" by people in the their 20's or younger.

The Tesco one was actually a Christmas card that they recalled after an offended mother complained on national TV. Also, as a Southern redheaded Brit, I've only come across the discrimination against Scots, rather than the Irish. It's always been a kind of friendly rivalry that has picked up pace, and has become more obvious - and of a worse kind - since racism, sexism and homophobia have been frowned upon. It's almost as if society is looking for something new to discriminate against.

I used to loathe my red hair. I was fortunate enough to never have been bullied over it, but there was no shortage of disparaging comments about other ginger people or ginger hair in general.

When I was about fifteen I had a conversation with a friend about why everyone seemed to dislike red hair after a small classroom incident (some of the younger students came into our classroom and asked permission to take a few strands of someone's hair for a science class and decided on mine because I'm a redhead, and some of my classmates decided this wasn't sufficient disruption and proceeded to scream in horror at the fact that people actually wanted to touch my hair). My friend informed me that people were weird about ginger hair because ginger people had oddly coloured pubic hair, instead of being "brown, like everyone else's". I was pretty confused because I was pretty sure that most people - ginger or otherwise - didn't have exactly the same colour pubic hair as everyone else, and because I wasn't sure why it mattered in the first place. 'Ginger pubes' was a pretty common insult against people with red hair at the time (I'm not sure if it still is, although that was only about five years ago).

I'm a language student and I live outside of the UK now, and actually get compliments on it from people other than my family and my hairdresser, which was quite a pleasant change.

Growing up in Western Canada I never even heard the term "ginger" until those South Park episodes aired; then all of a sudden everybody new what red heads were, and how they were different. Now the term is pretty common here. It's funny/scary to me how a group that didn't exist before (in my corner of the world) now does because of a South Park episode trying to make a point about racism.

I also agree with the point that this could be worse for male gingers than female; although maybe just different. Pretty women with red hair are often sought after in much the same creepy way that asians and black women sometimes are.

You have to watch this video...done by a hilarious "ginger": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLLYO8Hd_sE

I don't get it. I've always had a thing for guys with red hair. Everybody deserves a little lovin'!!!

me and my brother are both red. He is a really firey red but never had skin that was that pale and I'm more of a strawberry blonde with v. pale sking but only a small band of freckles. Both of us have deep blue eyes. I always resented how narrowly people define ginger colouring. Within "ginger" we come in all types ya know! I've always been proud that I have a unique look.

We grew up in the UK and I had a about a 50/50 spread of good to bad comments but for my brother people are always mean. Apparently girls have said some mean things about him, and I do worry that some girls won't give him a second look purely because he is ginger. He should move to canada with me where people LOVE the red hair.

I used to hate my red hair. When I was little, I would get made fun of for it sometimes. Kids would say I had orange hair and call me carrot top. I would always say I had auburn hair, not red. But then at some point in high school, I decided I actually liked it. My red hair makes me stand out. I'm unique. :)

Also, "as late as the 1800s?" Irish-bashing continued into the 1900s: "Irish need not apply" signs, political cartoons depicting Irish people as subhuman...

I've frequently heard the term "red-headed stepchild" to refer to someone kicked around or unloved (sort of in the vein of "chopped liver" or something like that)--as in, "What am I, the red-headed stepchild?!"

I've also heard conflicting explanations of the "red-headed" part--either included just because it's an unlikeable trait, OR, as a part of the stepchild theme, as in, everyone knows that you don't belong with the family because you stand out with your red hair.

The fact that South Park keeps influencing large swaths of American youths to act out their satire unironically...it makes me weep. South Park is genius. A large, LARGE chunk of their viewership is not.

And yes, I've heard that South Park episode quoted by MANY people in America and Canada as their first real exposure to gingerism. But a lot of them thought it was funny and also agreed "gingers are gross." No...ARGH! YOU LOSE TELEVISION WATCHING PRIVILEGES.

Hmm, this is so weird to me. I've only thought of red hair in positive ways, as in it's attractive. I'm from the U.S. and read a lot of comics so the redheads that immediately came to mind were MJ, Jean Grey, Vic Sage (The Question), Poison Ivy, all awesome fictional characters.

"Tocher has shown that on an average more persons become insane in
parts of Scotland where there is an excess of light-eyed persons in the population, and in a much less degree where there is an excess of dark-haired persons. Lunacy,he states, is distinctly correlated positively to light eyes and in a much less degree to dark hair, and is, distinctly correlated negatively to red hair, and in a less degree to dark eyes. There is thus a greater tendency to insanity among light-eyed and dark-haired persons, and a lesser tendency to insanity among red-haired and dark-eyed persons, compared in both cases with the general population."
1911 Medical Journal

Damn... I have light eyes.

What is missing: Red hair has also since at least Medieval times been associated with being Jewish. (I actually thought that was the origin of the red-headed stepchild).

Here a wiki entry: Red Jews

"described in Arabic sources as having red hair, a trait associated with the Devil in medieval Germany" (well, not just Medieval Germany- my grandma is hardly "Medieval" and also associates red hair with the devil... she is semi-serious)

I just googled it and Stormfront has some "lovely" articles on Jews and red hair.

The Jewish Encyclopedia (early 1900s) has this:
"The high proportion of red hair among the Jews has been considered as characteristic among some anthropologists. It appears to be not of recent origin, and was not uncommon among the ancient Hebrews. (Esau had red hair)".

Judas is also always painted as having red hair:
Judas, red hair and the Jews

This is just baffling to me.

Men and boys appear to be more frequent targets than women and girls, who at least are sometimes seen as uniquely beautiful.

I'm so glad that you mentioned this in the post. This is the one area I can think of (I'm sure there are others, though) where men are punished more for an "undesirable" physical attribute than women.

In Australia red heads are often called "rangas", a shortening of orangutang. Men and women seem to be equal targets (from what I've seen). I haven't seen any times where the person in question was greatly offended, it seems to be used more as a friendly insult rather than a serious one.

I think the worst I've seen is the stuff people say about Lindsay Lohan.

I was discussing this with my partner last night becuase I have not seen that much evidence of ginger bashing in real life. But then I live (and grew up) in NE Scotland where obviously there are going to be more red-headed people. My partner grew up in Wales and he told me that it is very common to deride gingers down there - that redheaded girls are seen as bimbos and boys are thought of as stupid (the same thing?).
Growing up I was aware that people made jokes about redheads but never really bought in to the whole idea of ginger as a disability (which is what many of these jokes allude to).
Personally I think red hair is as beautiful as brown hair as blonde hair as black hair and everything in between. It's the person underneath the hair that influences my opinion of them.

Don't forget the Angry Ginger kid on Youtube (search for "Gingers Do Have Souls"). He's got a good cause, but I think he may be going about it the wrong way, as in, hysterically yelling at the camera. It just encourages people to upload remixes.

The Australian comedian Tim Minchin has a great song about this very problem, speaking for all of us gingers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1HXmYkxwSE

I am female and was the target of teasing during childhood 20-25 years ago in multiple parts of the US because of my red hair; my redhead brother and sister both had difficulty because of it, too. The popularity of the comedian "Carrot Top" made it especially difficult because he capitalized on his ridiculousness.

One of the difficulties I still have with being a redhead is that men who are trying to chat me up ask me frequently whether "the carpet matches the drapes." Making sure the colour is "real" seems to be high on the list of priorities in those interested in redhead females.

And blondes are dumb, and brunettes are mousy and boring.

White people do get teased for their hair colour, and bullying = bad, but I'll go out on a limb and say that they probably have it better than POCs.

And people get teased and killed for having no colour in their hair. People with albinism in countries such as Tanzania and Burundi have been killed so their body parts can be used by witchdoctors.

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8270446.stm

I'm from the southern UK and I've definitely been the target of this before. I spent most of secondary school hearing "Gingeeeer!" every time I walked past a group of boys. I think the most common insults were 'ginger minger', 'ginger pubes' (because its... bad that the colour is natural? I dunno.) and just 'ginger'. That would have been about four or five years ago and people rarely insult me directly any more, but everyone still makes jokes about 'gingers' even when there's redheads in the room. I don't exactly find it offensive, but it can really bring down my mood with all the memories it brings back.

I think the worst part was I was totally unprepared for it, I was golden blonde until I was about 10, with a flame-headed little sister, so I didn't even think I WAS a redhead. It was quite a shock to move up to secondary school with golden brown hair that only had the tiniest hint of red and suddenly be 'ginger minger' for the rest of my school life. Oddly, one of the boys who teased me most had dark red hair himself, but was able to deny it and be supported by the rest of the group because he was popular.

Thinking of my sister, I would like to point out something about the beautiful aspect. It's true that men and boys are almost never considered to be 'uniquely beautiful' because of their hair, but it's not much better for more than a few girls. The 'uniquely beautiful' clause only applies to women with SERIOUSLY red hair, flaming, dark red or auburn, and it has to be long and glossy. The smallest hint of red in a girl's hair will get her labelled as 'ginger', but only the most gorgeous and unusual shades will rescue her from it. My sister was teased far less than I was, despite her flaming-red hair, because hers fell into the 'beautiful' range.

Not that she completely escaped the cries of 'ginger pubes!' mind you, she just had a lot of compliments to balance it out.

Wow. I spend money to have my dish-water blonde hair dyed various shades of red, from "carrot-top" red to deep auburn to crazy stop-light red. I've always thought red hair was more interesting than blonde or brown.

Wow. I honestly had no idea that this was a real phenomenon. I am in the southern US and I have never seen or heard any negative traits or statements about people with red hair. (I have red-haired friends and family members, so I should have run across at least some if it was widespread here.) I thought it was quite funny on south park because I thought it was super-ironic in that hair color was something that would never be treated like race. I am off to educate myself on this. I am completely floored that this is an actual category of discrimination in some areas.

Lol. I always desperately wanted red hair, and my mum always really wanted a redhead child (she figured she was in for a chance seeing as her dad is Scottish). My best friend had orange hair and freckles. I'd heard red heads called blue and carrot top. As an adult we had a friend who we called the Ginger Ninja.
And just in the last year, since my brother started dating a redhead, and my sister declared she was looking for a 'ranga' and will go to Scotland to find one if need be, I discovered that people were picked on for being redheaded! My other sister even sent us all that first image and we laughed at it saying my brother's kids would be okay then.
Living in northern Australia, the worst thing about being redheaded or really pale is that you can't think about the sun without getting burnt - or at least that's always been my understanding.
I feel like I've been living under a rock....

I'm from the US, and I never really knew about this problem. I even watched Catherine Tate's "Ginger Refuge" sketch on You Tube and thought it was just a funny send-up of other kinds of oppression. I wonder why things are so different here.

I remember as a kid I read and watched Anne of Green Gables and was baffled as to why Anne hated her red hair so much. She was a classic ginger, though that word wasn't used then. I just assumed that it was part of the beauty scheme of the time, like how Diana was considered more beautiful than Anne because she was plumper. Apparently there's this whole red hair baggage that was extant in Canada at the time but seems to have died out.

Gingerism is also very prevalent in Ireland itself, possibly worse than in Britain.

I live in the Southern U.S., and this doesn't make much sense to me.

What's wrong with red hair? I think it's beautiful.

I found the Santa Claus ad particularly vile.

i dye my hair red fairly often. i've always had a 'thing' for redheads, which i assume is because my brother, when he had hair, was a redhead, as was my mom, before she started dyeing it blond. she and her redheaded sister both dye their hair blond now, which i think has something to do with going gray (they are both in their late 60's), but maybe they were just bored.

anyway, we all live in the northeast US. my aunt used to work at a racetrack when she was young, and people would rub her head for good luck. and when my brother was in 2nd grade, there were 2 redheads in his class and the teacher would let the other kids verbally torture them. i wasn't in school yet then and because of that and my other brothers' troubles in the highschool in our town, my mom ended up sending us to a local private school. but when i tell people about the reason i went to private grammar school, they don't believe that the public school teacher had a problem with redheads. it seems so bizarre.

I know I'm coming in really late, but I have to say I had a completely different reading of this... the violence was gratuitous but it also had a point, referencing Guantanamo Bay and Palestine (early in the video one of the characters wears a Palestinian scarf and throws rocks at army trucks, just as some Palestinian youths famously throw rocks at Israeli soldiers). To me it was clear the video was saying that the Palestinian Occupation and the detainment of (possibly innocent) Muslims in Guantanamo Bay happen as a result of racism, and that people with red hair were shown being being persecuted in order to show how wrong and ridiculous it is to persecute any group. So the message of the video was anti-racism, whether that be racism directed towards people with orange hair or any other group. I really appreciate the message of this video: I think it's meant to shock us and remind us not to accept the anti-Muslim sentiment that is creeping into every day life more and more in the West.

I do agree that it was insensitive to pick redheads as the group being persecuted, since this is a group that does experience some discrimination in real life.

Here's why Ginger-ism doesn't matter in America.

In America, the divide is between Whites, Blacks, and Latinos. Problem solved; gingers are white and are hence, 'good' Americans.

Basically this just shows how bad humans are toward our own. No matter what one looks like, you will be hated or teased.

I feel drawn to extreme political violence on behalf of my ginger colleagues

Check out Sh*t Gingers Say!

http://youtu.be/pNQ2tGJPg8A

Hahahahahahahhaha. Ahhh, I'm sorry, but I have red hair, and this is just funny. "A recent series of verbal and physical attacks  is nicely documented at Wikipedia." Yeah, like, 10 attacks against redheads in the UK does not a trend or widespread prejudice equal. In the Oppression Olympics, "gingerphobia" would not get past a municipal-level qualifying round. Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulz, Soc Images, lulz.

I think stereotypes around

Aw, geez - no-one mention The Red Mist!

I never realized that the discrimination against gingers was real, I thought it was a parody of "real" discrimination.

Thank you for this posting. I lived in Ireland for over 25 years, and was stunned when my son developed an attitude about ginger haired people. I never understood the origin of the ideas he was getting from schoolmates. We lived in Belfast, which is still controlled by the UK, and I guess the British attitudes have crept back to our island.

Today I learned that MIA makes vapid, over-the-top videos and music.

Can we not have some middle ground here

Clearly discrimination against "gingers" is real in the UK and has led to serious bullying in recent years. One of my best friends refuses to call herself red-haired or ginger because she has internalized the idea that gingers are gross, another kid I knew had to transfer due to violent bullying.

Also clearly, it's not "racism" or anything approaching the oppression of POC. It has its roots in anti-Catholicism and anti-Irish attitudes, yes, but the renewed hatred of redheads came after a period of most people just not really caring that much. 

And yes, I'm from the UK.

Maybe we could say that white supremacy depends on a racialized other?  When I was in school in Midwest in the eighties and nineties, kids from Polish and Italian backgrounds (not immigrants) were racialized and mocked and stereotyped and so on.  The very, very few brown students were not subject to "casual" teasing (ie, no one would casually and openly remark that someone was slutty because she was black, but people would say that about Italian-American girls) but were subject to intermittent,  violent, disgusting racism and physical attacks.  It was like there were two tiers - the casual assumptions and remarks about the Italian-American and Polish-American kids was highly visible, unpleasant but less serious, while the racism against the brown kids was covert and intense.  (I assume that although I was not privy to the conversations, there were probably horribly racist conversation about those kids, just based on what people would pop out with from time to time.)

In that situation, bias against the Italian and Polish kids was part of and propped up the more violent and intense racism against POC.   Later on, when my town became less white, the 'casual' racism was targeted against Latin@s. 

I have to wonder whether this whole "ginger" business becoming more overt isn't in fact part of a general increase in racism in the UK.  Like, everyone gets more racialized now, even though there's still a gradient of whiteness.

It seems like white folks tend to assume that if they are on the wrong end of physical or ethnic stereotyping that this proves that racism is equal-opportunity (so to speak) or as if "now no one wants to attack POC so they turn on white people!"  It seems much more that white supremacy is an active system that is always concerned with 1. sustaining itself by finding new ways to express racism; and 2. creating and refining a hierarchy so that privilege and violence can be dished out.  If gingers are getting picked on, their experience isn't the same as that of a Muslim girl getting harassed, but the experiences are both part of white supremacy, because they are both concerned with creating and enforcing a racial hierarchy where there is "real" whiteness at the top/center, and "real" whiteness is defined against all other ways of being.

Given that an asshole I have the dishonor of being related to popped off with "redheads have no souls!" about a year ago, I'd say gingerism has definitely infected the US.

I've always thought red hair was beautiful - I'd never heard of people being mocked for it until South Park either, but I do know that there was a stereotype of red-headed boys as being naturally more bratty or mischievous.  But also usually more creative and having leadership skill - although usually for naughtiness. I knew that red hair was considered ugly long ago because of Anne of Green Gables, but I don't think that's true now at all. 

I actually had a conversation about this with a professor who had two red-headed children, and she said that her daughter was fawned over for her beautiful hair but her son was mocked for his. :(  She thought that teachers expected him to be bad and were much harsher on him than others, mainly because of that stereotype, while they let her daughter get away with more because they thought she was so especially pretty with that hair.

sorry guys, I don't know much about this topic because i live in Italy and here redheads are very rare, we don't even have a word for gingerism, as far as I know. Children with red hair get picked on, that's trye...but why this happens in a country where many people actually are this way too?I never would have guessed...my natural hair is blond but I have been dying it pale red for years since I do love this color...also adults think it's attractive and unique, I guess. I thought it was the same, if not much, there!

I know I'm really late to the party, but I really want to bring this up. In the video you see a mural with red-headed men in camouflage and above them it says "Our Day Will Come". The IRA's slogan is "Tiocfaidh ár lá" - Irish for "our day will come". Maybe it's because I'm from Northern Ireland and have recently been reading and thinking a lot about the Troubles and negative attitudes to Irish people in Britain, but I sort of thought the red heads in this video represented Irish Catholics (as red hair is such a stereotypical trait attributed to Irish people) fighting against British Oppression. I know the story line and violence in the video could represent a great many other things...but as soon as I saw that mural that's what I thought. I'd love to be able to talk to somebody about this who knows about the Troubles and sectarianism in Northern Ireland, but I know it's a subject hard for outsiders to understand.

People who hate redheads are just jealous. Sorry you can't be fiery redheads too. We are rare and blondes and brunettes are as common as cockroaches and douchebags. Oh well. Boohoo for you :} 

Hi, I'm from the US. I have long red hair and I can relate to a lot of what everyone is saying. Everyone is always saying how beautiful my hair is but then again, everyone always "teases" me about my red hair because I'm a "ginger" and I "have no soul". No matter where we are in the world, we all get discriminated against. It really isn't fair to say red heads in different parts of the world get discriminated more than others, unless someone has had experience. Gingerism does matter where ever you are in the world. We just shouldn't discriminate against any hair color, any eye color, any race. They don't matter! We all came from the same place and we are all going to end up in the same place too. We are all "one big family"! Both "whites" and "blacks" get discriminated against, why is there ever any "pro-whites" or "pro-blacks"? We should just be pro-people.

How come you got comments on here dated more than 3 years back - when the article was barely published 1 (ONE) year ago...???

Wow. Just, wow. I am from the US. So many people are so racist and just plain cruel. So many think they are the "oppressed ones". There are famous, smart and great people of all races and genders. The difference between them and those that think they are oppressed is that the great ones work really hard and do not blame everyone else for their own laziness. They just persevere. Everyone has a brain and a soul and that is all that matters. Use them and stop the blame and hate. (There are some born rich people out there, but that does not mean they are great, by the way. They can be just as hateful, cruel and unhappy as anyone.)

Had oranges thrown and me on street, carrots put in my locker and was told by many faith filled kids that I and other gingers are the blood line that failed Jesus. My sister who is a redhead agree's, for boys with red hair it can be a curse. It takes a lot of strength to face daily verbal abuse. Keep smiling and remember abuse is abuse, even if its just verbal.

Well, of course Santa Claus loves ginger kids. And auburn-haired kids. And chestnut-haired kids. And brown-haired kids. And black-haired kids. And strawberry-blonde kids. And golden-blonde kids. And platinum-blonde kids. And stark-white-haired kids. And dark blonde kids. And red-haired kids. And silver-haired kids. And black-blue haired kids. And dark-grey-haired kids. And burgundy-haired kids. He likes all kids.

The British should be embarrassed by their actions. It really goes to show that they are actually very uneducated people especially when it comes to Biological back grounds and Science. I really am embarrassed for myself to tell people that I have a British heritage, but I most claim my Scottish and Irish heritage. The Brits are the most racist, low standard people on the planet and I couldn't care less what they think of me or any other redhead should not care either because this is a stupid farce because most redheads came from that part of the world. That's like making fun of an American for being American in America. Go figure. Why don't they get their teeth fixed if they want to feel of a higher standard.

Both Mia and South Park are trying to make ironic points about discrimination by showing redheads being discriminated against the way Blacks or palastinians are. The conclusion is supposed to be it is preposterous to think this would happen to redheads and you really know this is about Palastinians anyways. The producers are smart well educated adults who get the joke. The problem is many of the viewers are none of these. In middle school in calabasis students took south park seriously and started kicking gingers. South park is written for adults. middle schoolers don't get sarcasm. In trying to address discrimination against blacks and Palestinians Mia and South park are creating discrimination that did not exist before.

I think it is very much a British problem, I live outside the UK now and never get any negative remarks, back in the day I remember being called am effing ginger egc, some really aggressive stuff. I think it comes from anti Irish sentiment.

Wow ,this really blew me away
When I discovered my Ulster friends making Ginger jokes ,and I as a black American couldn't understand their dislike for the Hair Color, Myself Being Protestant.
My Friend from Ulster explained to me
That "The ("Tims"= Irish Catholics) ,He meant ,mostly
Ad' Red hair= Ginger being the nickname.
Tims are Scum, he said.
This I was Told in July /July is the MARCHING SEASON -When the Protestant Flute Bands parade July 12th,
Little kids help build a Bonfire out of old
Wooden pales several stories High,
And a Irish Triple Color= (flag of Ireland )
Is Placed a top it to be Burned.
Mind blowing stuff now a days in Northern Ireland.
Sectarian violence is still rampant there,
And don't let Rangers play Celtic,,the
Loyalist are protestant =Blue and pro British,
The Republicans are Catholic =Green pro Irish,,,and Yes there is Still Violence and Bitter Hatred around those Derby soccer matches.

M.I.B. Born Free, Romain Garvas. What a horror show! As I am into filmmaking myself, I understand most of this was just choreography and CGI. But I too am a ginger and this made me sick! I could have been one of those kids!!!

My real scare is Trump, he may actually at one point bring this out of the realm of fiction and make this REALTY! I am leaving this fascist corporate New Amerika anyway, I certainly do NOT wish to be rounded up simply because I am GINGER! WTF!

It is utterly amazing to me that people say such ignorant things as, “This is baffling to me.” I have experienced every kind of Gingerism hatred in my life, from a horrible childhood and parents who tried to drown me. Then at 13 my parents began trying to convince me I was suicidal and I should kill myself. Bullied in school and by all relatives. Bullied in University. I’ve had to leave job after job. I’ve left the US twice to go to the UK where at least they acknowledge this is happening. What if another race of people had historically been killed down to 2%, they were lumped in with people with the seemingly “same” heritage and skin color. They could get hated and bullied by anyone and no one is sticking up for them. We aren’t a culture of people all connected to each other so it has taken me a long time of study and research to find out why people I know and strangers call me, “witch, alien, evil, wicked, problem child.” I’ve had more hate and violent crimes happen to me than I want to put on this site. And then try and go to the police about any of it and the stereotype that Hollywood paints by villainizing the redheads follows you there too. It’s a no win situation with the ignorant indoctrination in our world and the only people even acknowledging it are the British! We’re not your witch, vampire, werewolf, child’s play, dark phoenix, or any other nonsense! And yet it happens all the time. I am so over people saying this is not understandable to them that I could throw up on their face! Redheads are villainized by media, books, people of all cultures and in religions. People from all backgrounds from Mexico to Asia have come up to me and said, “I was told redheads are witches. Is that true?” What is in the kool-aid if indoctrinated ignorance that people are complacently accepting?! And then to top it off people go to these Dark Phoenix and Child’s Play movies. Then they harass a redhead, put them in a position of humiliation and abuse and heaven forbid the poor redhead show any emotion of anger or sadness and get upset and they use that to say, “See I knew you were wicked!” It’s such a grotesque thing going on in society and because people don’t imagine what a society could do to a race by villainizing them for 1000’s if years and killing them down to 2% they never look at from the perspective of the redhead. Google redhead child and memes will come up saying, “You don’t want one of these.” Egyptians said “ignorance is the root of all evil,” and they are most certainly right.

Recent DNA research shows the genetic trait for red hair is not of human/African/descended from apes gene. But rather solely from the Neanderthals. Might explain some of the passed down hatred and jealousy from those solely descended from apes. Proud of my Neanderthal genetic expression! The strong

Redhead discrimination! It needs to stop! Redheads lives matter!

I'm so tired of 'redheaded stepchild'. I heard this remark last week in Kansas City.The guy behind the counter had no clue what he said. OFFENSIVE!

People-please pay attention to what you say. Redhead lives DO matter. Stop the ignorant remarks. We are not being sensitive. It is time to STOP showing the red heads as fat bullies in movies, skanks, or as 'red headed stepchildren'. JUST STOP.

The video was obviously made by an ignorant , racist, vile piece of shit. ..............A proud redhead

I am tired of bring judged because I am a red hair there are people in this world that need to wake up and find some common sense and realise this is not acceptable, I am a pupil in secondary school and when I am older I want to be a teacher at secondary, when I told someone the first thing they said was how are you going to cope being a red hair as teacher of secondary, I should not have to worry about my future choice because some person who doesn't even probably have and actual reason for judging red hairs, well done to all red hairs that have survived the monsters of society to those who have not don't let those bastards get you down and live your life to the fullest, red hairs need to stay united and stick together and stop the hate!!!!