If you have red hair, were you ever bullied for it?

[MineralMan]

It seems like there are instances from time to time of bullying directed at ginger kids. I don't remember any of it. I was a tow-head, and had friends all through school who had red hair, including a couple of girlfriends in high school. I don't remember anyone being bullied for their hair color. But, that was in the early 60s, so things might have changed.

So, if you're a ginger-haired person and you were bullied because of it, tell your story here. Thanks.

[snooper2]

1. It was all pretty good until South Park brought up again that gingers don't have souls

[LiberalArkie]

6. I have a friend who has 2 red hair kids and him and his wife are red heads and they say they

don't have souls and I wondered where that came from.

[Warpy]

2. My granny was an Irish ginger

but unfortunately, I got the black hair and ginger complexion combination. And yeah, I was bullied but because I was always the new kid in school and had brains.

[Merryland]

3. "red head cabbage head"

I think there was another can't remember it. It wasn't exactly bullying but it was a critique as it were...

[LiberalArkie]

4. Does it count if I was the only person in my group that did not have red hair.

And yes I was bullied by them. But I always got even with them by having an easy tan with no freckles. So I guess that made up for the ribbing I took for not having red hair.

[livetohike]

5. All the time and I still remember the taunts.

"I'd rather be dead than red!"

"Hey Pippi Longstocking!"

"You look like Raggedy Ann!"

"Redhead Gingerbread hit her head on the top of the bed."

It was hard being singled out like that when I was a kid. Now, it's nice to get a complement. 😊

[Political_Junkie]

9. Yes, this.

[Downwinder]

7. Like Charley

I always had a crush on The Little Red-Haired Girl.

[redwitch]

8. Teased but not really in a mean way.

[Bucky]

10. I was a coppertop in elementary & middle school. Never bullied for that.

well, I was bullied plenty in junior high--just never for hair color

[Vinca]

11. I was a wannabe redhead in the mid-1960's.

My father wouldn't allow me to color my hair, so I decided to try a "rinse" that would wash out. Being young and dumb and desperately wanting auburn hair, I used every packet of rinse in the package in one fell swoop. It was a gorgeous color. Just what I wanted. Then the hammer dropped. LOL. The old man grounded me until I washed all the color away. I think it was a good week before I managed to return to my natural mousey brown and was sprung from house arrest. I got the last laugh, though. Right before I had my high school senior picture taken I hit the stuff again. One packet did the trick just long enough for the portrait to be taken. I told my father it was the light and I think he believed it.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Oh, yes

Although "bullied" isn't really accurate. I was pitied for it, especially as a kid in South Africa. Friends assured me very seriously that if I shaved my head, my hair would probably grow back a different color.

I finally came to like my red hair, just in time for it to start vanishing.

[MineralMan]

13. Thanks for all the answers. I guess it was hit and miss.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. Often. It colored my adult attitudes.

Namely a near complete immunity to this kind of bullying and a general way of looking at tribalism... If two people are thinking the same thing, only one of them is thinking at all.

My other attitude is a lot like Will Hunting - "I choose wrench; because fuck 'em, that's why."

Maybe that's one of the reasins I love Bernie: "You heard me right... Socialist"

[madinmaryland]

15. My wife was bullied through high school, but it was not because of her beautiful red hair...

it was because of her cleft palette and all of the surgeries she had as a child. Kids can be so cruel.

[AngryAmish]

16. When one lacks a soul one takes offense at any perceived insult.

[linuxman]

17. Lots.

[KentuckyWoman]

18. My sister Rose had red hair and the kids were horrendous.

"Rosie Head". She was short and grew boobs earlier than anyone else too. She never ever went to a school reunion. Shook the dust from her feet and moved on. Those kids were just plain evil to her.

In the 60's.

[mercuryblues]

19. I never was

But my hair is not Ginger, but reddish. My son was a little bit. One day he turned and said "do you want to see a ginger snap?" Over and done. It lasted less than a week.

[MurrayDelph]

20. I like to listen to Tim Minchin's take

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=Tim%20minchin%20prejudice&sm=3