re: #271 ObserverArt

Now that you are curious, do a Google for Ginger Red Hair. The Wiki page is fairly comprehensive.

And if you want a quick study of how a term is used currently, you can use the urban dictionary and this is what they had for their #1 definition:

It can be very hurtful for some. I mentioned it because my brother has really had a rough time with it. I always accepted him because he is my brother. It was only a few years ago that I got him talking and found how hurtful it has been his entire life. I am 60, he is 68.

Sometimes people say things they have heard from others not thinking there is stereotyping involved.

The negative connotation is bizarre to anyone who grew up in an Irish neighborhood. Red-heads were a sizable minority, thought to be quite attractive and somehow more ‘authentic’.