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| Zharen |
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3378972&page=1
| quote: | Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Marcia Cross all have one thing in common. Besides being successful actresses, the three ladies are all redheads.
Some call them carrot-tops, copper-colored or believe stereotypes about feisty personalities. But in at least one country, being a redhead isn't so easy.
The British Isles feature more redheads than anywhere else on earth. But some people who have the genetic trait said they feel discriminated against.
"It's horrible," one woman said. "I mean, I love redheads. But people are quite anti-them."
In England, the flame-haired are called "ginger" or "ginge."
Photographer Charlotte Rushton said people often yell at her in the street and she often feels like part of a minority.
"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down," Rushton said.
The nation that gave the world Ginger Spice, the Duchess of York and Lily Cole may be ginger-phobic. And it is not a joke.
One British family of redheads, the Chapmans, told the British media it was driven from its home by abuse including anti-redhead grafitti, vandalism and physical assaults.
Even Prince Harry has said he was bullied at school because of his hair. Apparently, his army buddies called him the ginger bullet magnet and his girlfriend calls him the big ginger.
"Somebody with ginger hair will stand out from the crowd." said Louise Burfitt-Dons of the group Act Against Bullying.
Waitress Sarah Primmer just sued her boss for sexist and "ginger" abuse and won $35,000 compensation.
"When you get older, you don't expect people to say things about the color. It's not nice," she said.
Even TV comedian Catherine Tate highlights such absurdity with a fictional refuge for abused gingers on "The Catherine Tate Show."
"We have all sorts of gingers here: Gingers in denial, confused gingers even militant gingers," she joked on her show.
Rushton said when redheads see one another, there often is a sense of camaraderie.
"Redheads walk along the street and we nod or wink or smile at each other," she said.
Rushton has photographed red heads for an as-yet unpublished book, "Ginger Nuts: A Celebration of Carrot Tops."
"It's a glorious color," she said. "It's amazing. Nature produced this color." |
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| Sushipunk |
| Tiny parts of my beard (a few hairs here and there) actually grow red in colour. It's weird. |
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| Taranis |
A redhaired kid in my grade in highschool got the payed out of him for years for being red haired, though I think there was more to it than that.
I can't imagine it ever goes beyond dumb schoolyard slinging though, certainly not into the bounds of real discrimination. |
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| Zharen |
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Well, I'm not one to fully believe in the words of abc news, so I'd like to see what folks in England say about this, and if it's really a problem or not. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zharen
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Well, I'm not one to fully believe in the words of abc news, so I'd like to see what folks in England say about this, and if it's really a problem or not. |
When I was in England, the 'ginger' thing was actually kinda full on. Some of my female friends would talk to each other saying stuff like "Yeah, he's pretty cute, and he's got a good body and that, but I dunno, he's a ginger, so I don't think I could ever really be into him or anything."
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It spun me out a bit. |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zharen
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Well, I'm not one to fully believe in the words of abc news, so I'd like to see what folks in England say about this, and if it's really a problem or not. |
it's pretty true, however it's just one of many prejudicial comments people make, no more common than fatty, skinny, asian (you won't believe how many people, most late 30s onwards who count anyone from thailand to china to india as just being 'asian' in a derogatory way) hispanic, black, white, anything really. people in this country are judged on looks by most. wrong? Yeah, but it happens, always has, and probably always will. there's way too many people doing it who have no intention of stopping. |
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| basd |
| quote: | Originally posted by Taranis
I can't imagine it ever goes beyond dumb schoolyard slinging though, certainly not into the bounds of real discrimination. |
I can attest to this. First-hand experience. |
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| Lilith |
England is a pretty weird place when it comes to picking on people. At it's simplest so as you simple folks can understand, everyone picks on everyone else with cruel, politically incorrect and utterly reprehensible behaviour.
Up until-
They start paying people out back in kind, in which case the banter continues until the end of time.
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Until someone cries, pouts and doesn't want to play any more, then it's serious business and they'll be teased until the end of time.
Or
They take the honourable way out by emigrating or killing themselves.
School was essentially the training ground.
The white inbred kids picked on me, the half-caste girl, I pick on the blacks, asians and orientals (such archaic terminology, but it's England which is a backwater swamp at the best of times), who in turn pick on the fat kids, well everyone picks on the fat kids, who pick on the skinny kids who pick on the irish who pick on the scots who pick on the welsh because they fight over who sleeps with the sheep, who in turn pick on the handicapped kids, who pick on the ginge's because they're just bad tempered little bastards and anyone can get a rise out of a ginge. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
School was essentially the training ground.
The white inbred kids picked on me, the half-caste girl, I pick on the blacks, asians and orientals (such archaic terminology, but it's England which is a backwater swamp at the best of times), who in turn pick on the fat kids, well everyone picks on the fat kids, who pick on the skinny kids who pick on the irish who pick on the scots who pick on the welsh because they fight over who sleeps with the sheep, who in turn pick on the handicapped kids, who pick on the ginge's because they're just bad tempered little bastards and anyone can get a rise out of a ginge. |
:stongue: Good thing you like warm weather Lilith.
The seat right next to the devil, I swear lol. |
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| stren |
Marcia Cross ? Who the is she ?
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Tiny parts of my beard (a few hairs here and there) actually grow red in colour. It's weird. |
+1 |
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