"beat the **** out of a redhead day"

[swingchickie]

saturday morning, i was at the supermarket getting food for the weekend. in the soup aisle, a forty-ish guy stopped me and asked, "excuse me, have you ever heard of 'ginger day'?" i didn't know if this was a pickup line or the beginning of a joke, but i played along and replied that i hadn't. he told me that his middle-school-aged son had told him the day before that that day had been "ginger day" at school, where the kids all sought out their redheaded classmates and shoved them. i thought it was a load of crap... until jack found this: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/22/california.redhead.attack.facebook/index.html

well, that's just great. another excuse for kids to be mean to each other. thank goodness this particular kid wasn't too badly hurt.

Comments

[swankyfunk.livejournal.com]

So stupid.

From what I've heard, the anti-redhead sentiment is more prevalent in the UK. I have a friend there, she's a grown woman and really quite beautiful, yet she still sometimes gets called names by kids and adults alike. Stupid!

[xtingu]

I fscking hate everybody. Good god.

Though...... I`d like to see someone try that on mrlich and roughhouser.

[mrlich.livejournal.com]

Yeah - except that, when I was a kid, every day was 'kick a ginger day'.

Towards the end of high school, that did shift. Thus the 'Orin Story (http://mrlich.livejournal.com/289455.html)'.

Kids are very, very cruel. It's why I wanted more than anything else as a kid to dye my hair obsidian black. I know now that it wouldn't have worked, and likely only increased my problems by showing 'them' that they had won, but I certainly wanted that then.

[blamedstarlie.livejournal.com]

i wish i had red hair. i think the people who celebrate that are just jealous.

[weezerthe1.livejournal.com]

wow

sweet baby jeebus!

[katehaney.livejournal.com]

That is AWFUL. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.

:( :( :(

[pezywvu.livejournal.com]

I'm a fellow redhead too. (which I'm very proud of, it would hands down be my favorite physical feature)

That is terrible. Kids are so mean, especially middle school/high school aged. I feel like it all starts at home.

As for that South Park episode, they make fun of EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. I actually thought that episode was funny, but hate that it was taken out of context.