Kenneth
Sunday 19th July 2009 8:59am
5,447 posts
When did this whole "anti-ginger" thing start, even if it is just in jest? At school we never nastily taunted the kids with red hair merely because of their hair colour. On the contrary, girls with red hair were seen as quite sexy - possibly because of the character Ginger on Gilligan's Island or perhaps because they were generally very pretty. The only name-calling I recall at school was a red-haired boy being harmlessly nicknamed 'Carrot' and a very freckled red-haired girl being nicknamed 'Chook'.
I first became aware of ginger discrimination a few years ago via an episode of South Park, where Cartman was prejudiced gainst "gingers". A few weeks later, an English guy in the office was being taunted by a New Zealander because he had red hair.
Why on earth is red hair something to be mocked? Is it just because red-heads are a minority?
Quote: Timbo @ July 19 2009, 12:09 AM BST
New Zealanders, the only people on the face of the globe to sneer at Australians as being effete sophisticates...
I've been sneered at in many countries, not just by New Zealanders, for being exquisitely effete and suavely sophisticated. Although perhaps I just come across as an unpleasantly smug wanker.