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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 28, 2017 23:01:08 GMT
From reading your post, this seems to be a phenomenon that is not prevalent in the US, it seems to be a UK thing. But, in the US, as recently as the 1980's and 90's, there were derogatory blonde jokes about women with blonde hair. A friend of mine thinks that this is basic 'lizard brain' behavior, the old 'us against them' tribal survival thing. Too bad we have not evolved enough to not be threatened by diversity. I kind of agree with you that it is definitely a much bigger issue in UK where being red head is often perceived as being "Irish" or "Catholic" and where some people tend to associate people of red coloured hair as being weird/abnormal. That said in US too I think recently the word has started getting a negative connotation. Of course you are better judge of that as you are in USA but I have perceived that even some US posters use the word as an insult on message boards. Though I totally agree that it is a much bigger issue in UK. In spite of widespread belief that red haired people are mostly of Irish origin , the country with most percentage of red haired people is Scotland. Well, dang, I guess I am going to have to find a better name for my little orange tabby kitten. Since orange is a negative word up here because of our so-called president, I thought 'Ginger' would be a cute option, but I sure don't want to potentially insult someone. I guess I am going to have to go with 'Amber' or 'Sunshine'.  |
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 28, 2017 23:05:31 GMT
I kind of agree with you that it is definitely a much bigger issue in UK where being red head is often perceived as being "Irish" or "Catholic" and where some people tend to associate people of red coloured hair as being weird/abnormal. That said in US too I think recently the word has started getting a negative connotation. Of course you are better judge of that as you are in USA but I have perceived that even some US posters use the word as an insult on message boards. Though I totally agree that it is a much bigger issue in UK. In spite of widespread belief that red haired people are mostly of Irish origin , the country with most percentage of red haired people is Scotland. Well, dang, I guess I am going to have to find a better name for my little orange tabby kitten. Since orange is a negative word up here because of our so-called president, I thought 'Ginger' would be a cute option, but I sure don't want to potentially insult someone. I guess I am going to have to go with 'Amber' or 'Sunshine'. Your hideous and repulsive president is a complete idiot but I hope people with orange hair don't feel low because of him. 'Sunshine' is awesome. On Food and Drinks board on old IMDB we had a very nice poster called ms_sunshine who still remains one of my fav posters ever. |
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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Sept 28, 2017 23:12:59 GMT
Well, dang, I guess I am going to have to find a better name for my little orange tabby kitten. Since orange is a negative word up here because of our so-called president, I thought 'Ginger' would be a cute option, but I sure don't want to potentially insult someone. I guess I am going to have to go with 'Amber' or 'Sunshine'. Your hideous and repulsive president is a complete idiot but I hope people with orange hair don't feel low because of him. 'Sunshine' is awesome. On Food and Drinks board on old IMDB we had a very nice poster called ms_sunshine who still remains one of my fav posters ever. Our entire country, except for his hideous, repulsive and idiotic base supporters, feel low because of him, regardless of our hair color.  |
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