Gingerism - redhead discrimination

I hope you like my alias Nate my ginger, my hoe, my bitch. Its in honour of your oppression my brother... but seriously... fuck offffffff!!!!!!! Oh no the nasty 12 year olds are calling me names! Make an official complaint you wanker! Toughen up son! If anyone in the UK complained about the power their boss had over them... the reply would be 'alright, on your bike!'. Anyway, my actual brother (not a ginger brother) tells me that its a bad idea to join this bloggsite. He says its likely that Keiron and Madassa are the same person and I'll end up being stalked, ... Read Full Story

Redhead-world.com is it 'Gingerism' or exclusive, hence exclusionary? A new social networking site works toward building 'real' positive redhead identity. Under 200 members at the moment... the need for an 'all redhead site' potentially speaks volumes about redhead mainstream exclusion and the need to form a community, albeit it online! Concentrating on just the ' gingerism ' can be depressing... glad to promote redhead-world.net on gingerism.com, whether its a loose connection or not. Join interest groups, blogg , chat, place classifieds, post on boards, forums, add and swap photos, check out redhead events, participate in polls and post articles. Check it out @ http://www.redhead-world.net/ ... Read Full Story

Are you a ginger? The 2% of the world’s population that currently has red hair inherited a gene that once helped humans make vitamin D from sunlight. If you want to boost the odds of landing your very own Nicole Kidman, Lindsay Lohan, or Conan O’Brien, head to Scotland—13% of the population there has red hair, and three times that many carry the gene. Recently, many news organizations have reported that true redheads or “gingers,” are declining in number and may soon be gone altogether. Citing the “Oxford Hair Foundation”, they claimed that there would be no more redheads by as early as 2060. ... Read Full Story

The Root Ginger Exhibition , due to open Tuesday 17th February has received wide coverage by the British press this week. The BBC hosted a discussion of gingerism with psychologist Anjula Mutanda and Root Ginger model and poet Richard Tyrone Jones. Most poignant in the discussion is Anjula Mutanda's strongly emphasized opinion of the existence of gingerism. The fact is, if it hurts somebody's feelings and it's discriminating against them, making them feel bad about themselves, then it has to stop and not be seen as innocuous. Secondly, the Daily Mail have covered the event , with many photographic examples from the exhibition and ... Read Full Story

Writer Anne McElvoy pontificates on a week of news and spares a thought for gingerism, prompted by the opening of Jenny Wicks' Root Ginger exhibition . Red hair gets the praise it deserves in a new exhibition devoted to gingerism. I am unsure as to what qualifies, having faded to something you might politely call strawberry blonde, or what my son described as "dirty light brown", down the years. But you never really forget early years' membership of the ginger club with the pleasure of standing out in a crowd. Or the pain of being too strikingly visible to teachers looking for someone to ... Read Full Story