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Why are ginger people offended when you call them ginger?

Reply 60

Pirouette

10

I prefer auburn :yep:

Reply 61

necessarily benevolent

14

Why the hell are ginger people disliked though?

Reply 62

emerley

14

It's more about how people say it. But now I've grown up a bit from the days where people would yell "GING-ERRR" at me, I actually don't take offence. I bloody love my hair colour so people can say it offensively and I just laugh!

Reply 63

Schroedinger's Pandora

13

What? I love being ginge.. When I was at school I was made to feel like it was some kind of disability, but now I wouldn't have it any other way.. I love being ginger and I actually like it when people point it out.. Strange eh?

Reply 64

WithFlyingColours

1

What's the difference between taking the proverbial out of being ginger and taking it out of someone who's black/brown?

Reply 65

Tombola

17

Hm.
"Haha you're ginger"
"Careful, your brains going to fall out"

It's a pretty silly insult. I don't get it and never bothered with it, but then again that's probably because I'm in the ethnic minority myself.

Oh... I guess there have been a couple of tools that come up to you saying "haha you're chinese"

Reply 66

mister ex

10

because more often than not, the words preceding 'ginger' are those which would be offensive to them. an example of such a remark would be: 'oi'

Reply 67

rakata

14

you wouldn't walk up to someone black and be like HAHAHAHAHA YOU'RE BLACK HAHAHA would you?!

this thread makes me angry.

Reply 68

xxxchrisxxx

11

gingers stand out.

and are we not supposed to call them ginger? is that politically corrrect? any gingers to answer me?

Reply 69

40550

2

I'm not offended by people calling me ginger.

It depends on the context.

I have had ginger hair for twenty years, so I'm not sure to what extent I need people to point it out for me. Especially strangers shouting from cars

Reply 70

Dionysia

12

Depends whether it's a middle aged guy shouting it at me from a car window, or perhaps a girl spitting on me for being ginger.

When my friends call me 'ginger' as a term of affection, doesn't bother me at all.

But this explains it best.

Reply 71

Jayne100

I think ginger hair is really striking, in a good way!

Reply 72

abbi182

Is ginger actually a colour in its own right or is it like blonde and only applies to hair colour?

Reply 73

40550

2

I'd like to know the history of the word "ginger" itself.

Its a really ugly word - and I think thats made it a problem.

I swear in the old days they called it "red hair". A lot of old people still do

Reply 74

Danielle89

14

My best friend is ginger and if anyone insults her pre-fixed by the word ginger (e.g. ginger bitch) she replies with something like "you blonde *******" because she really sees it as only a hair colour. Plus her hair is long, thick and beautiful - she could do hair ads Im sure, I'd kill for hair of that thickness and quality :smile:

Reply 75

xxxchrisxxx

11

dddd

I'd like to know the history of the word "ginger" itself.

Its a really ugly word - and I think thats made it a problem.

I swear in the old days they called it "red hair". A lot of old people still do

red hair sounds very american, and thus unnatural, to me.

Reply 76

xxxchrisxxx

11

Danielle89

My best friend is ginger and if anyone insults her pre-fixed by the word ginger (e.g. ginger bitch) she replies with something like "you blonde *******" because she really sees it as only a hair colour. Plus her hair is long, thick and beautiful - she could do hair ads Im sure, I'd kill for hair of that thickness and quality :smile:

normal straight ginger hair looks fine to me, but curly frizzy ginger hair looks particularly freaky.