I don’t know what it is lately, but I’ve come across several articles about how much people dislike redheads – and all of them include a reference to how horrified they’d be if they had a redhead child.
How could you not love his red hair?
As someone who hoped for a redhead – and was happy to get one – now I have all these worries that he’ll be picked on for it, something I never was. I loved my hair color my entire life and don’t recall being made to feel singled out over it in school. But that was long before South Park had an episode about how “gingers have no souls” and “kick a ginger day.”
I guess I can hope this fad will have passed by the time my son is old enough for these things to bother him. Better yet, I hope to teach him not to let what others think about him keep him down…a lesson it took me until my college years to really take to heart, and sometimes still wrestle with. We redheads rule! This shouldn’t bother me so much. There’s always haters out there for anything.