Post by Sarah on Nov 17, 2015 16:40:45 GMT
I keep reading these bizarre, resentful posts on message boards relating to natural redheads. "That's not her real colour - it looked different last week!" If your'e a man you won't know what this phenomenon about. I do and it infuriates me. They dye their hair red and have the brass neck to resent natural redheads for being born redheads.
About five or ten years ago there were a couple of prominent redheads in popular culture. We basically had Julianne Moore and Shirley Manson. And Manson's star was already fading. I grew up as a redhead when being a redhead was virtually High Treason. I'm only slightly exaggerating. Certainly here in the UK it was verboten. We were the punchline to every TV comedians' jokes. We were their whipping boys. If we objected to it, we were perpetually told it was "just banter" or "can't you take a joke?" Bit difficult when the joke's always on you.
Something happened in the last five years. Now everyone's a fucking redhead. Right. I think these frauds saw Amy Pond on 'Dr Who', or OD'd on 'Game of Thrones'. I now have to endure posts which describe Christina Hendricks as a "natural beauty." Excuse me? You have the right to dye your hair red. But if you're a bottle redhead whose appeal is largely based on your (dyed) red hair then you are in fact the polar opposite of a natural beauty.
Catherine Tate reports a woman following her around a Hollywood shopping mall and hectoring her "Who colours your hair?" When Tate replied that she's a natural redhead the woman would have none of it. These women can get borderline aggressive about it. How dare they. They didn't grow up being subject to crass interrogations about their body hair. They weren't being horrendously bullied at school. Real redheads earn their individuality the hard fucking way. These johnny-come-lately frauds need to pipe the fuck down.
'Kick a Ginger Day'. How quickly we forget girls eh?
About five or ten years ago there were a couple of prominent redheads in popular culture. We basically had Julianne Moore and Shirley Manson. And Manson's star was already fading. I grew up as a redhead when being a redhead was virtually High Treason. I'm only slightly exaggerating. Certainly here in the UK it was verboten. We were the punchline to every TV comedians' jokes. We were their whipping boys. If we objected to it, we were perpetually told it was "just banter" or "can't you take a joke?" Bit difficult when the joke's always on you.
Something happened in the last five years. Now everyone's a fucking redhead. Right. I think these frauds saw Amy Pond on 'Dr Who', or OD'd on 'Game of Thrones'. I now have to endure posts which describe Christina Hendricks as a "natural beauty." Excuse me? You have the right to dye your hair red. But if you're a bottle redhead whose appeal is largely based on your (dyed) red hair then you are in fact the polar opposite of a natural beauty.
Catherine Tate reports a woman following her around a Hollywood shopping mall and hectoring her "Who colours your hair?" When Tate replied that she's a natural redhead the woman would have none of it. These women can get borderline aggressive about it. How dare they. They didn't grow up being subject to crass interrogations about their body hair. They weren't being horrendously bullied at school. Real redheads earn their individuality the hard fucking way. These johnny-come-lately frauds need to pipe the fuck down.
'Kick a Ginger Day'. How quickly we forget girls eh?