Some students left bleeding, bruised on 'Kick a Ginger Day' at Melrose middle school

By adamg on Wed., 11/25/2015 - 10:33 am

Wicked Local Melrose reports.

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This whole ginger thing..

By anon
Wed, 11/25/2015 - 3:03pm

..has always seemed pretty weird to me. When I was growing up in never occurred to us to make fun of redheads nor did we call them "gingers.". Is it completely driven by South Park? Did they just make it up or did it start somewhere else?

UK term

By anon
Wed, 11/25/2015 - 4:03pm

I think the term "ginger" for red hair was primarily a term from the UK. I don't think there was any negativity attached to it at first. It was neutral, like "bloke". The first time I heard an English person use it back in the 70s I had to ask what it meant. I don't know if South Park was responsible, but somehow it filtered over here and became a thing.