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Prejudices Against Ginger, Rust, Auburn Or Redhead - A Problem Unnoticed Or Not As Big A Deal?
As some of you will already know I have 'ginger' hair. As many of us (in the UK and the USA at least) also know, us 'gingers' suffer abuse at times from certain members of society.
Or maybe you didn't know that. Maybe you weren't aware of it. Maybe you are aware of it, but don't perceive it as a 'real' problem when compared to homophobia or racism. My thread for debate for you, GTPers, is to debate whether prejudice against people with the same melatonin imbalance as me and many others is something which needs greater attention, something which is dealt with adequately, or whether it isn't a real problem and people should just get on with it.
You may be wondering while I write ginger with inverted commas. Well, that's because I consider it a misnomer. Unless I'm colour blind, ginger the spice isn't particularly reflective of my hair colour. Nor is the hair colour ever 'red'. Red is that fake hair colour which is frequently used in hair dye by teenage girls trying to be cool.
Looks kinda brown to me.
During my lifetime, you'd be surprised to know that on innumerable occasions people, typically the usual sort of uneducated bigot, would actually slow down in their cars, wind down the window and just shout "GINGERRRR!", like they wanted a medal for stating the bleedin' obvious, then zoom off.
When I was in Germany, I got stares pretty much everywhere I went because I was the only orange haired chap there. I saw just one other in the 9 months I lived there.
Many of my homochromed friends say they suffer the same sort of thing. Just snides everywhere. Any sort of 'banter' (Another hateful invention of the 2010s) is immediately ended with "At least I'm not ginger!" And this is grown 'adults' we're talking about, not just children.
Do gingers have souls? Another 'classic', now ubiquitous thanks to South Park. Souls don't exist so nobody has one. Or, as I like to say, each freckle on my body represents a soul I've captured and devoured.
Do we have ginger pubes? Yes. We do. Stop asking.
Frankly, while I personally am less affected as the years go on and those around me mature and I find myself in better company, I think this is something which is swept under the rug and treated as less important than prejudice towards someone's skin colour. To me, the principle is the same; judging someone by their skin colour is equally wrong as judging someone by their [natural] hair colour.
What do you think?
As some of you will already know I have 'ginger' hair. As many of us (in the UK and the USA at least) also know, us 'gingers' suffer abuse at times from certain members of society.
Or maybe you didn't know that. Maybe you weren't aware of it. Maybe you are aware of it, but don't perceive it as a 'real' problem when compared to homophobia or racism. My thread for debate for you, GTPers, is to debate whether prejudice against people with the same melatonin imbalance as me and many others is something which needs greater attention, something which is dealt with adequately, or whether it isn't a real problem and people should just get on with it.
You may be wondering while I write ginger with inverted commas. Well, that's because I consider it a misnomer. Unless I'm colour blind, ginger the spice isn't particularly reflective of my hair colour. Nor is the hair colour ever 'red'. Red is that fake hair colour which is frequently used in hair dye by teenage girls trying to be cool.
Looks kinda brown to me.
During my lifetime, you'd be surprised to know that on innumerable occasions people, typically the usual sort of uneducated bigot, would actually slow down in their cars, wind down the window and just shout "GINGERRRR!", like they wanted a medal for stating the bleedin' obvious, then zoom off.
When I was in Germany, I got stares pretty much everywhere I went because I was the only orange haired chap there. I saw just one other in the 9 months I lived there.
Many of my homochromed friends say they suffer the same sort of thing. Just snides everywhere. Any sort of 'banter' (Another hateful invention of the 2010s) is immediately ended with "At least I'm not ginger!" And this is grown 'adults' we're talking about, not just children.
Do gingers have souls? Another 'classic', now ubiquitous thanks to South Park. Souls don't exist so nobody has one. Or, as I like to say, each freckle on my body represents a soul I've captured and devoured.
Do we have ginger pubes? Yes. We do. Stop asking.
Frankly, while I personally am less affected as the years go on and those around me mature and I find myself in better company, I think this is something which is swept under the rug and treated as less important than prejudice towards someone's skin colour. To me, the principle is the same; judging someone by their skin colour is equally wrong as judging someone by their [natural] hair colour.
What do you think?
