As a ginger I can tell you this is because waspy whites are racist and always saw us as lesser anyway 😔
As another ginger lol not that I give a fuck but I don't think we're seen as in need of representation and I feel like there aren't as many famous ginger actors, I can only think of some Harry Potter actors :LIB: : :soviet-bashful:
I can only think of some Harry Potter actors
The main reason the Weasleys are gingers is so JK Rowling can tell us that the Irish are poor and breed like rabbits.
Funny and believable but maybe a stretch with how they don't have an irish accent and e.g Scotland has tons of gingers too. I do feel like it's some form of stereotyping and (in the spirit of this post, kinda /s) another of her bad ways of representing a minority (overwhelmingly white cishet characters)
Yeah there's something be to said about bias against red heads but the post our OP found definitely ain't it
This post would be hilarious except the poster takes it seriously and thinks it's white genocide
I was right: https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/jsnm8t/why_are_ginger_characters_being_replaced/
It's as bad as I thought.
I mean... I actually agree that Ginger people have their own hierarchy of oppression so they're full of shit to be honest, people on the left do recognise it.
What we don't recognise is using it as a vessel to attack black people though. Fuck that.
Also fuck South Park. They took what was a pretty mild issue and actually caused it to be a really fucking large one because people memed ginger "racism" into full existent after South Park joked about it.
This comment makes no sense. Of course it's not the hair color, it's the way people treat you if you have it?
My take is that gingers are almost exclusively Irish (or Scottish) in heritage which was the closest thing to having a minority before black people were invented.
You're probably right. Back then it would've been an exotic, almost provocative character casting to have the potato-munching, ruddy-faced, devil-flame coloured hair, drunken sops known as "irish" people be shown on any form of media outside of their cultural stereotypes of the time.
It's r/tumblrinaction. Thats like going to /pol and going insane because of the racism.
Idk what's worse, the multiple repeats of characters or the fact that one of these examples is a goddamn lego figurine
Disappointed that Triss Merigold isn't in this. Where all my stupid racist gamer nerds at?
i used to joke with my bf about this all the time lmao, hilarious to see someone taking it seriously
I assume that some of the current TIA posters would have been in middle school when the anti-ginger episodes of South Park came out.
I can't recall getting bullied by anyone for it other than the sun, the eternal enemy.
No it's been around for a while, my dad was bullied a lot for it during the 80s and I was somewhat during late 00s early 10s. I think they mentioned south park a few times lol. I've even been taunted for it on the street ta couple times recently
A bit, yeah from what I saw at school and from what redheads have told me. Common digs about hair colour and I imagine that South Park episode didn't help.
Difficult for me to say cos I'm not a redhead of course. It also might be a bit different over here cos of course associations with red hair/Gaelic countries blurs the line between being nasty to redheads and the low level background racism always present against the Scottish and Irish.
lots of stuff under culture> discrimination. Most of it is pretty mild or anecdotal, but I thought this one was pretty interesting:
In September 2011, Cryos International, one of the world's largest sperm banks, announced that it would no longer accept donations from red-haired men due to low demand from women seeking artificial insemination.
E: also -
In Medieval Italy and Spain, red hair was associated with the heretical nature of Jews and their rejection of Jesus, and thus Judas Iscariot was commonly depicted as red-haired in Italian and Spanish art.
The medieval prejudice against red-hair may have derived from the Ancient biblical tradition, in relation to biblical figures such as Esau and King David. The Ancient historian Josephus would mistranslate the Hebrew Torah to describe the more positive figure of King David as 'golden haired', in contrast to the negative figure of Esau, even though the original Hebrew Torah implies that both King David and Esau had 'fiery red hair'.
You get teased as a kid and called a leprechaun but tbh it's just standard bullying. They would find something else to be mean about if you weren't a ginger. It's not like you face systemic discrimination or anything lol
There's a very stark gender divide where it's a bad look for men but extremely fetishized in women. I'm a pathetic simp for redheaded women, for example.
At the same time my brother looks a lot like me but ginger and he's definitely the better looking brother.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JewishAndNerdy
Just bullying, but it's not a systemic problem. If you're ginger but well socialised you'll take the digs at you in your stride. I like being a ginger personally - makes me stand out.
The Mary Jane Watson one is so dumb. Zendaya’s playing an original character in the movie, not Mary Jane. I remember g*mers getting super upset that Mary Jane had been given the SJW treatment.
