Stupid Questions, Rude Comments to Red Heads

Yep, stupid questions and rude comments directed at red heads!! Had to have a page on that for sure!

Okay, if you’re a:
-- red head (ginger) yourself,
-- parents of a red head,
-- family member of red heads,
-- married to someone with red hair
-- friends of a ginger-haired person....
....you’ve probably heard stupid questions and/or rude comments, as well as touching your red hair without permission!

Other people's dumb questions and rudeness just defies understanding sometimes -- they invade personal privacy and ask questions of redheads that other people just don’t get asked or deal with. I mean strangers will ask personal intimate details you’d NEVER ask anyone else for Pete’s sake~! People also come up and touch their red hair without permission, which can freak us out. I'm amazed that people think this is appropriate. Plus, treating you like you’re from some other planet!

SO.....I’ve started a LIST OF ridiculous:
1) QUESTIONS, and
2) COMMENTS
...I’ve heard people say or picked up along the way...
3) TOUCHING YOUR HAIR Without permission...
and if YOU have heard more or experienced this, let me know and I’ll add them if appropriate (Just see my "Contact Me" page to submit it.)

-- STUPID "QUESTIONS":

• What’s wrong with your hair? Does it hurt?
• My Mom told me only witches have red hair and green eyes. Are you a witch?
• Do you also have the famous redhead temper?
• How’d you get that red hair?
• Are your eyelashes red too? (duh, are you looking at me right now?!)
• Did you get that red hair from the mailman?
• Were you switched at birth?
• Were you born during a heat wave?
• Are you red all over? (especially heard after puberty)
• Do the curtains match the carpet?
• I heard redheads are wild in the sack, can I test that theory?
• Are you a real redhead?

• "Are your eyelashes red?"..."Wait are you wearing mascara?"
  ---[from Molly, who states: I don't like wearing makeup, but I know where the question is coming from. I'm a bit of an odd redhead you see with naturally brown eye lashes. (I don't know either) and I merely reply "Nope, my eye lashes match my eyes!" which confuses people more since they never realize I have brown eyes.]

-- RUDE "COMMENTS":

• I’d rather be dead than have red hair!
• The redhead is dead!
• I think you hair color came out of a bottle.

TO MY READERS -- I know at one time or another we all end up saying something we regret or asking stupid questions. This is just a reminder -- PLEASE be careful what you say to other people – can’t take it back once it’s said!

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