I am a ranga, my mother sister and I have dark auburn hair. Mine has gone brown now, it changed at about 22. My mother used that as an excuse for her temper. I am one of the most emotionally controlled people I have ever known, so tis all rubbish.

Research supposedly has proven that you are the sexiest.

I'm only a ginger-wannabe, a faux ging, a henna-head, but I'm very believable as a ginger because of my fishbelly white complexion. Though I'm not freckled. Yes, gingerism is definitely a thing. People make all sorts of assumptions about me based on my hair color.

Does ginger look orange or red in other parts of the world? I've only ever seen yellow-ish ginger.

I never understood people with orange hair being called "redheads", but a photographer friend gave me the rundown on how different colors used to be viewed, or not. Evidently orange used to be described as red.

I might as well have orange/red/ginger hair. I'm so melanin-challenged, I glow in the dark.

I guess I could be considered a ginger. My beard hair gets a little red and when I didn't shave my head, the hair on it had a red tinge. Plus I'm pale skinned. I had freckles when I was younger, but now only get them on my back I think when I'm in a pool. I remember the viral vids online years ago claiming that gingers had no soul lol

Being so damn pale contributed to having skin cancer on my right cheek when I was 35. My grandmother had it on her nose when she was in her late 80s. I also have to supplement with Vitamin D pills.

I always thought it looked kinda cute. Come on gingers, show some pride. You have the ability to stand out of a crowd while people like me just blend right in.

Also you have a head start on the rest of us if we ever have to live in vast underground caverns.

I can sympathise--even though I don't have ginger hair I burn bright red within a couple minutes.

Daughter is so pale that she has amazing coloring. But she was delighted to be diagnosed as photosensitive and proudly announced she was a vampire, a red haired one.....?
Gingerism? She struts her red tresses with flair,.......but only if it's cloudy.

I'm not naturally ginger, but I have all the characteristics. I can see it being like that.

I have no idea what you are talking about.

From a genetic perspective yes. It's recessive and those of us that have it, we can be more susceptible to skin damage from the sun and other things including vitamin deficiency. Apparently many have lower levels of pain tolerance also.

As a kid I was taunted in school with this charming ditty: Red hair and freckles are the devi'l compadres. ( In German, of course) I was also left handed.. Thank goodness, i grew up above 53 deg latitude, same as Fairbanks, Alaska, Murmansk, Russia, amnd Winnipeg, Canada. More a lack of sun and a need for Vitamin D.

I saw someone on TV talking about the fact there are fewer people with red hair. They said that people with red hair don't date and therefore don't mate. The reasoning was when they did date each other people thought they were siblings. Any thoughts from people with red hair.