Ginger bashing blahs
There’s always some reason humanity is a bummer. This time, it’s because I’m a redhead. I’ve talked before about the heckling I used to get from kids at school - as well as from perfect strangers - because of my red hair. That doesn't happen, now that I'm a middle aged woman. Thank goodness. But media still happens. A few years ago I started keeping a tally of how often the bad guy or gal in books and movies have red hair. Summary? Rates are way higher than the non-fiction ginger per capita numbers. Then I started noticing all the ginger bashing in comedy. Of course, there's South Park ’s Kick a Ginger Day . That's not news. Amy Schumer and her line about reasons we need Plan B, like for cases of “rape or incest or with a redhead.” Yamaneika Saunders on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show talking about how this was the first time a black woman had ever wanted to marry a “ firecrotch .” (That term was new to me, actually.) Yes it