Ginger Love

As you all may know, people have been saying for years that gingers are on their way out. Anne Lindsay is an artist from Seattle, Washington knows otherwise and has been taking photographis of every red head she can find for her upcoming book “Redheads and More Redheads”. She will feature photos and personal stories of people with any shade of red (so long as it is natural of course) from strawberry blong to auburn.

There are a lot of myths and folklore associated with this vibrant hue.

Lindsay has heard some strange stories in the process such as how we were once considered witches and burned at the stake. So far she has cataloged more then 65 people for her book but she is looking for more. She wants to feature 200 gingers in her new book and is calling on all redheads from around the world of any age or nationality to visit her website at annelindsayphotography.com and take part! She is paticularly interested in ethnicities that rarely have red hair such as African Americans, Greeks and Indians.

On May 14th she plans to host a redhead gathering which will include a slide show, photo exhibit and discussion about redheads as well as a talk on how to pursue ideas for books. Help this gal out and let her know your story!

Now this is an idea! There is a lot of weight behind the creation of “Kiss a Ginger Day” as opposed to the “Kick a Ginger Day” that was all in the news last year. There are a whole bunch of facebook groups popping up setting times and locations for us to all gather together en mass and show off our fiery red hair. If you can find one in your area i suggest you attend!

The best part is that this will be the 2nd Kiss a Ginger day this year! This new one plans to celebrate it in April, however one was first celebrated in January. I dont see why we need limit ourselves to one day though! Derek Forgie, a talent coordinator for MTV Canada recently created the first Kiss A Ginger Day group on facebook and was amazed by the attention it got. He said he started it as a “karmic counter-event” to the news coverage of a ginger child getting beat up by his peers in school last year. People all over the world ended up reacting to that event. An example of what they called “Gingerism“, or discrimination against gingers.

I hope that enough people do end up showing so that the rest of the world realizes that its not OK to “kick a redhead” or anyone else for that matter. People gota live to get along no matter what they look on the outside. Because we are all the same on the inside!

Is it really a big deal to raising a redhead? Apparently there is a whole website dedicated to the proper steps that a parent needs to take in order to bring up a red head without with them turning into some sort of… i don’t know, ginger vampire? Raising Redheads is a parenting magazine that:

Raising-Redheads.com is a parenting magazine dedicated to redheads and their families.

Ill give it a nod for being a very informative website about redheads (although not as informative as us of course) such as tour genetics and how prevalent we are in the world. But what really grinds my gears is just that it seems to try and set us apart from everyone else. Its like saying you there are special steps that you need to take in raising an asian or black child. A little red hair doesnt require a different battle plan with a child. Maybe they will get teased when they are growing up, but thats not something that any other child has to deal with when growing up.

Not that i dont doubt the authors sincerity about loving redheads (she is one herself), all i am saying is that it is this type of website that just continues to perpetuate the belief that gingers not the same as everyone else. When will the world see that gingers deserve to be treated just like everyone else!

Shaun White is the “golden boy” of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver and is highly favored to bring home the gold for team USA. He has won gold at the X games every year since 2002 and is surely going to explode onto the world scene at the Olympics. He was born with a congenital heart defect and had to invasive surgery twice before his second birthday. He is often known as “The Flying Tomato” a name which he used to embrace but has since become tired of it. He prefers the title “The Animal” referring to the Muppets character which shares a similar appearance with Shaun.

In 2009 Shaun had a video game released by Nintendo entitled “Shaun White Snowboarding” which was personally played and demonstrated by him at that years E3 expo in California. He is currently dating but refuses to disclose the girls name although he does admit that it is “Not who people expect”.

Prince Harry of England has expressed his displeasure at his portrait with his brother because he looked “more ginger there then I am in real life”. Sandy Nairne the director of the National Portrait Gallary and Nicky Phillips the artist that was selected to paint the portraits of the two princes disagreed. The portrait was unveiled earlier this month and received praise from casual observers. Readers of British newspaper The Sun also noticed that it was “a great painting and it does justice to both men”.

In 2007 Harry reveiled that he has always been teased about the color of his hair. His fellow soldiers have come to call him “The Ginger Bullet Magnet“, some of them joked that they would do their duty by wearing ginger wigs to try and confuse the enemy of the true identify of the prince.

Harry also noted that he was his brother had an exaggerated look as well with with the amount of hair on his head saying “William was already bald at age 12″. His comments came during his time in Barbados to launch the Sentebale Polo Cup.

Nicole Giladi a writer from Los Angles has publisher a book called “Little Redheads Across America and it has sold thousands of copies since its release in 2009. A so-called “coffee table book” is filled with more then400 pictures of redheads from all 50 states.

She said the inspiration for her book was her son who is a redhead and became curious as to why considering she and her husband did not have redhead. She became fascinated with their physical traits like freckles, and red hair. The united states has the largest population of redheads in any other country.

“I was fascinated to learn that redheads make up only 2 to 4 percent of the U.S. population. I was also astonished to learn that it’s a recessive gene, which means both my husband and I gave our son his copper colored locks” Giladi said

The book is available in an 88-page hardcover book and can be purchased from her website: www.littleredheadsacrossamerica.com. It took Giladi over two and a half years to complete the book collecting pictures and stories from gingers all over America. There are also fun and education facts in the book about the 50 states.

Check out these two videos by a kid on facebook willing to prove to the world that gingers are just as important as everyone else. Gingers do have souls dammit! Im glad we have strong willed kids like this as the next generation of gingers. With them around im not too worried about us ever disappearing. It has become a bit of an internet sensation with his videos gaining over a million hits, and i present his saga to you here on Ginger Love!

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In Australia a common nickname for redheads is “Ranga” which is an abbreviation of orang-utan. To try and draw attention to the plight of the animal the Adelaide Zoo ran an advertisement offering “Free Zoo Entry for all Rangas” during school holidays.

The campaign generated a large negative reaction to the request reports the Zoos director of conservation programs. “People are possibly more sensitive then we thought” Kevin Evans said.

The exhibit was to bring to peoples attention that since human redheads are becoming an endangered species (which is not true) we could empathize with the same plight of the orangutans being endangered.

The Zoo has since changed their policy and will not seek proof that patrons are not natural redheads.

In the End of Time, Part Two when David Tennant (the 10th Doctor) regenerated into Matt Smith (the 11th) he says to himself:

I’ve still got legs. Arms, hands, lots of fingers, eyes, hair…I’m not a girl. I’m still not ginger.

This episode seen by 11 million viewers caused angry parents to call in and complain to the BBC that the comment would encourage the bullying of their ginger haired children. While reading the statement doesn’t really sound as it was not meant as in insult it was actually a statement of disappointment. Despite this the BBC was forced to issue a statement:

We would like to reassure viewers that Doctor Who doesn’t have an anti ginger agenda whatsoever. This was a reprise of the line in the Christmas Invasion episode in 2005, when David Tennant discovers that he’s not ginger, and here he is, missing out again – disappointed he’s still not ginger.

They note that the Doctor has had a desire to have red hair nad have been a running joke since episode titled “The Christmas Invasion” in 2005.

Conan O'Brian the Ginger

It seems that NBC may be regretting their decision to move Jay Leno back to his 11:30 spot up against David Letterman in the same time slot. But this could be a problem for our favorite ginger Conan O’Brian. Since his move to Jay Leno’s old spot ratings have tanked and advertisers are dropping rates or pulling out entirely, and the only way to bring back the money is going to be to move Jay back to his old spot. But what is going to happen to Conan? There are a lot of different options being thrown around maybe they can share the time slot, maybe Conan can move back to his old spot.

But my biggest fear is that Conan is going to get the boot! He may be popular with the younger crowed, and I’m sure he has a loyal Gingers backing him (including your Ginger Love team), but this may not be enough to sway the network. We are a small group we just need to let our voices be heard!