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Foreign Love of Redheads
Posted On 11/18/2011 19:21:51 by BarabusJive

I don't know if any of ye kight have experienced, maybe this is actually a location thing. I'm Irish, I've lived in Ireland (Co. Cork) my entire life. Since I started school all those years ago, I was always teased and mocked about my red hair, yeah, grand, I got over that. But the older I got, the tighter the hair I got, I thought it looked better. So at one point, it was a 0 all over. But it was over 6 years ago I started growing my hair. 

  I went to Poland for a couple of gigs,back in 2008, and me and the lads were waiting around at some point in a town that i cant even remember but i was sittin there, doing nothing and old man who passed,just stopped in the street and GLARED, I mean proper what-the-finding.ucle.christie's.knitting aghast at what was in front of him.

Now that would be the most extreme case of it, but anytime I've gone abroad I get complements galore about my hair, but yet back home in Ireland....

 

....still the butt of of peoples jokes who cant gt to grips with their short comings 



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From: squirrell
11/29/2011 07:03:11
English scum here, the piss taking is pretty much world wide as far as I can tell apart from Japs who are always taking photos of me instead of hurling abuse.

From: BarabusJive
11/24/2011 19:38:56

Unreal, I've pretty much thought the same thing about that...

 gingaryism??yeah, pretty f. u. c. k. i. n. g. childish, its a hair colour not an evolution

 

kinda funny to see how it's a fellow Irish man to see that point 

From: Red_Rock
11/18/2011 21:53:14
Hey man, how’s it goin? Great to hear from another Red Haired Guy from Ireland!

I don't think it’s only a Cork thing - I've experienced red hair prejudice crap in a number of places around Ireland. (not totally sure about the situation in other countries etc.)

My experience - got teased a bit when growing up but as I got older and because of my size i.e. over 6ft and pretty intimidating to other guys I guess and by not taking crap - the teasing sort of ceased but I still used to feel a subtle contempt towards me and/or I was ostracised in certain group situations etc. and still got random comments from strangers at a distance about my hair colour etc. skillfully stopping just short of full-blown 'racism'. I might add that it came from both guys and girls.


As I've said before in my previous post - I think Red Haired guys especially need to be promoted in a good light on T.v. / Movies / Fashion etc. more, stop calling each other 'Ginger'/redhead etc., stop playing up to the red haired clown role, have self-respect, don't take crap and I think that will filter down to the general public situation.


I think us Guys should stick together in Ireland(and around the world), not take crap and find some good hearted people to be around!


P.S. Tuatha Dé Danann = Proud and Awesome Red Haired people (if you didn’t already know)!


See ya around!


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