Several readers recommend the redheaded anthem by Tim Minchim:
Another writes:
According to my English ginger friends, the redhead vendetta is a holdover from all the Viking raids. Vikings showed up every few years, did terrible things, ran off … and then nine months later a crop of redheaded infants show up. Guilt by association! Is it true? No idea. But that's what they told me, and given they're follicle-carrying members of the oppressed party, I'll go with that explanation.
Another is offended by the thread:
As a redheaded, freckled male, I just want you to know how much of a hypocrite you are on bullying gays versus redheads (and yes, this regular reference to South Park is bullying).
You described Dharun Ravi's attempts to publically humiliate his roommate as "a bigoted online hazing" and a "sick prank", and that he was "he was cruel, he was out of line, he was homophobic". Here's your take on Romney's bullying of a kid with long hair, thought to be gay: "being privileged and conformist requires actual punishment of the marginalized and under-privileged; that you pick on younger, weaker boys, not older ones; and that you psychologically traumatize the victim by permanently marking his body. And this matters because today these attacks on gay kids drive many to suicide, others to despair; they wreck lives and self-esteem."
I doubt you've even considered that exactly the same thing can be said about bullying redheads. I can't find a single instance of condemnation of the bullying of redheads on your blog that isn't followed by a glib remark and a wink and a nudge towards that awful South Park episode. My early school years were a living hell, and I thought about suicide on a regular basis. I experienced assaults similar to the one Romney carried out, and I would go to bed at night praying that I would wake up with brown hair and unfreckled skin, like all the other kids in my class. My two favorite epithets were "firecrotch" and that I was a "disease". I can only imagine how bad it is for kids now with that episode out. You're clear-eyed and sober about what gay kids go through, but dismissive and jocular about redheads.
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