Gingerkids.org
Fantastic. I'm ill. Not sufficient that I have the flu Ive also been told I have gingervitis (to which there is no cure). 'Born with ginger hair' and thankfully a fantastic personality and sense of humor to go with it. A student suggested this site to me last week and Ive fallen in love with it. The ginger population are beautiful people - but according to the site, entirely soulless. Allow me to share my own personal burdens having been born with red hair:
1. I was often the target of local newspaper organizations intent on placing me as a small child on the knees of Santas for colour photo opportunities. I continue to have an aversion for sitting on Santas knees the world over many years later.
2. I have only worn red once in my lifetime. A mistake my grandmother made when I was two and was hastily corrected by my mother when she found me playing with and eating mud (because I had no friends). The two did not speak for a year over the incident.
3. Old women smelling of lavender on busses that I did not know would regularly point at me, coo, wave and smile as I tried to integrate myself with wider society at an early age.
5. My mother cut my curly hair once every two years until the age of ten in an attempt to prolong the agony of my reconciling myself to the fact that I was not like normal people.
4. I wear industrial strength SPF from March 1st every year through to November 1st in an attempt to prevent my entire face from being taken over by freckles.
5. When wearing any colour other than black, green, brown or blue people shout at me 'SHAME!!'
6. I have never dated or kissed another person with Red Hair. It is against the law in America and England (the Welsh don't seem to mind it, but then they have their own problems).
7. I grew up with a younger brother who managed to convince himself he was a 'strawberry blond' in the false hope that one day he would grow the strawberry out and be a real blond. He too now suffers from this full on rare disease as the blond hastily left him around the age of 12. What a crying shame.
8. I was married for no other reason other than my red hair. Rose doesn't even really like me, for her it is more a matter of good conscience that she was trying to prevent another Gingervitis sufferer from procreating with me thus increasing the chances of ginger babies.
9. I grew up listening to ginger singers. Jimmy Somerville, Andy Bell and Mick Hucknall (the latter I hate with a passion as he had the guts to grow his hair very long but could afford the security and protection of personal bodyguards to get away with it).
10. One of my best men is also a Ginger - dispelling the myth that we do not play nicely together (although he did once put me in hospital). Safety it seems in numbers.
And now a personal statement about red hair. I love it. I wouldn't change it. Dye it. Cover it. Not for anyone. I'm ginger and I'm proud of it. It's taken me 30 years of expensive counseling to be able to say it, but it's finally true. Gingers RULE!
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You’re right. I can’t stick you at all - but I ADORE your ginger hair so your card was marked when I met you (at which time my hair was dyed red a la Rita Hayworth, Karen Elson and dear old Ginger Spice). I support your right to be accepted with ghostly white skin, freckles and a ginger mop which is why I’m considering ditching the blonde and going red again…
By the way, your problems in childhood stem not from your red hair but your striking resemblance to Damien from ‘The Omen’ with ginger instead of black hair - I have pictures if anyone’s interested…
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Please Rose, I’d love to see those Damien pictures
dude, judas was red headed.
nuff said.
I was the one who told you about Jimmy Sommerville. you pretended to be Rick Astley for dnnow how long….
i dont even know whats worse until now.
neil, embrace your freckles… because a face without freckles is like a night without stars.
so there.
I have come to terms with my illness, though I know I will be in therapy until I’m fourty. Great site, btw
D
Ps. tell greg his red hair is the least of his problems
I have tried so many ways to get rid of my freckles during my teenage years. But hey, not anymore now..freckles make you cute (that’s what people around me say)and “customized”. So, be proud of every single one of them.
All people “anti-guar” can only be explained by the extreme likelihood that they were mentally handicapped and racist children, who walked in on their mothers having extra-marital intercourse with red-haired men. Recently, magazines such as tatler, vogue, and numerous newspapers have heralded this the age of ‘the ginger’ and have called it the new blonde. Such articles published a list of numerous celebrities who have dyed their hair red as part of the trend.
Damian Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Lindsay Lohan, Phillip Seymour-Hoffman are all what would be called a ‘ginger’
my husband was “strawberry blonde “before i met himm {it wsa a phone dateing relationship ] and he wouldnt have been my choice as a hot young city girl but as soon as i saw him with his hot red hair and a ipressive not up himself nature i was hooked we have now been married for about 10 years now and i still love every red hair on his body and he has a lot he is mesmerised by girls with freckales even if thats not me as long as he keeps counting them and dosnt touch im happy with that love to all red heads carrol
i think your telling a few lies because i have ginger hair and pale skin and had loads of freinds as a child and never have been bulliede or anything because of it and lots of people like it.
I stumbled across this website looking for cute guys with red hair to drool over. It’s too bad there aren’t any websites dedicated to this sort of “fetish”. None that I’ve found anyway. To the guy in the pic, if you weren’t making a funny face, I think you really cute(if u don’t mind me saying so). I’m American by the way and haven’t even heard of the term ginger. Your childhood problems baffle me!
http://www.gingerkids.org/
That site can’t be real, it has to be a joke. Why would they put ginger kids don’t have souls??
hey i have a neice with red hair its a real problem shes be rehab twice and shes only 5 . ..
this is what we call a joke for cathy kayeigh and shit balls??— possible a ginger pubes lol
funny site ranga dude love your work
whoa whoa whoa my boyfriend has red hair adn freckles……
and there is nothing wrong with that
your ignerant