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02 June 2007

WTF better dead than red?!

post by: rob511 at: 22:51 | 14 comments

Thugs is and understatement. What a bunch or arseholes. Poor kids.

posted by LoriFLA 02 June | 23:03

Poor little Ron Weasley! They must have inadvertently moved to the Slytherin part of town.

posted by pieisexactlythree 02 June | 23:32

Sort of related?

posted by arse_hat 02 June | 23:35

My oldest son, 10, has red hair. This is disturbing.

posted by craniac 03 June | 00:23

I've always wondered what the deal was with England's apparent national dislike of red hair.

posted by kellydamnit 03 June | 02:58

My husband asked me about the phrase, "I'll beat you like a red-headed stepchild" - which, you must admit, is bizarre, and I told him I figured one imagines a stepfather, easily irritated and impatient with his kid(s), and the red hair always there as a reminder that's it's not even actually his kid. Wap! Wap!

At any rate, I looked it up and found some decent theories here, as well as a possible answer (at least in terms of historical roots pun!) to the British dislike of red hair:

I believe that it is linked to the Viking invasions experienced in Britain and Ireland in the 11th century. The Vikings came down from their area, pillaged and raped and left a few red-headed children. Being so obviously different from the rest of the children in the area, they were subject to discrimination by parents knowing their origin was from an invading source. I can imagine that these children would have suffered the wrath of the local population who could obviously identify them as products of the Vikings violent influence on their culture. They were an easy target to vent the frustration of this phenomenon of force.

posted by taz 03 June | 04:04

Over the last few years in the UK, abuse of people with ginger hair has been loudly encouraged by a BBC Radio 1 DJ, the lumpen, moronic gobshyte - Chris Moyles. The tabloid press have jumped on the back of it and rarely a day goes by without passing a newstand that carries headlines exhorting us to "hate the ginger minger"

*despairs*

posted by Arqa 03 June | 05:51

This is not a national problem - this family live in Newcastle, and red is a colour strongly associated with Sunderland FC.

Not that this excuses anyone's behaviour.

posted by altolinguistic 03 June | 06:24

I don't get it. Doesn't Prince Harry have red hair? Sarah Ferguson does also. If it's good enough for the royals...

posted by LoriFLA 03 June | 08:28

Can't we all get along?

posted by jason's_planet 03 June | 11:11

Wow. I'm always happy to see red-headed kids. I guess that means they do stand out, though, because I notice them. Red-headed kids and kids with dreads (of any color, though I mostly see blond or that reddish brown of mixed kids) seem to me to typify Childhood to me.

posted by small_ruminant 03 June | 11:56

I also love red hair. Which is why I now color my hair in shades of red. Red runs in my family, but I wasn't lucky enough to get any redder than reddish highlights (before I had kids and it all turned to mouse brown). I can remember, though, my cousins being teased over the color of their hair.

posted by redvixen 03 June | 14:56

The gingers are gonna getcha!

posted by youngergirl44 03 June | 18:14

The violence is footie-related? Whodathunkit?

posted by shane 04 June | 08:27

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