I'll bet she has a temper
What's with people and red hair? Pretty much every time I go somewhere with Lucy some busybody/noseyparker/loud talker type has to stop, look at her, and say, "WHOA LOOK at that RED HAIR! SHE MUST HAVE A TEMPER!"
It's very irritating. And I have to say that it is always someone older than me, from a generation that was sure of three things,
1. Saturday night is bath night.
2. A Hot Hamburger Sandwich with gravy and peas is gourmet cooking.
3. People with red hair have a bad temper.
Get over it, people. Red hair don't mean el dialbo. It is just hair. Just like, say, your big hook nose doesn't neccessarily mean you are a WITCH. Or your tight short perm doesn't have to make you part poodledog.
Honestly, how does THIS make someone think of a bad disposition?
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speaking from my own red-headed experience -people either love the red hair or hate it. very little neutrality.
i have heard in my lifetime:
-of course, bad temper!
-bad luck to have red hair, from the italians at cathedral
-when i was 16 a guy at a party talking about how he "hated" red-heads cause they were "freaky looking"
-oh, i didn't KNOW you had red-hair, i thought you were blond...
-wild, bad, angry, trampy,witch, weird, cabbage-head...i could go on...
I agree - lucy has such beautiful hair - how anyone could look at that little face and see a temper...
hah, saturday night is bath night!
See, this is just another example of people imposing their own (wrong) perceptions on others. Not right, I say! Not right at all.
You should teach Lucy to kick people when they say that. Since they won't change their opinion anyway, you might as well have fun with it.... ;)
LOVE Kalki's comment about the kicking! Yes, as a redhead myself I've gotten my share of those lovely generalizations. The only one I've heard that really is true is the one about "redhead's are bleeders" that I was told just before I gave birth to my first child - yeah, thanks, one more thing to worry about. And it was true in the context of childbirth for me.
Well, after the dye job, my hair is slightly reddish.
Should I now have the urge to start bar fights?
My best friend has red hair and she just dispises people who say to her "you must have a temper"....drives her crazy. But she's the most mild-mannered person I know. So that definetely doesn't hold true!
Two of BEST friends :) when I was a wee girl had red hair JUST like that...and I WANTED IT! I was just blonde. Plain old 'dishwater' blonde. What does that mean?!
Hh
I've always hated the "red-headed step child" saying. My brother (half) is my mother's step-child and he's got red hair and she didn't hate him.
People are just silly. Like the color of her hair could really determine her temperment. Craziness, I say!
I don't know how people can look at Lucy and say anything to you besides how completely gorgeous she is.
What? You mean she isn't Satan Incarnate, with the red hair and all? MY best friend has red hair. SHe hates the "like a red-headed step-child" expression, too.
Oh, and once? At a party? A guy asked her, "Do the curtains match the drapes?" The NERVE! But my red-haired bff actually DOES have quite the temper. Let's just say that boy's future reproductive abilities may have been impaired...
People are sometimes so ignorate you just stare at them in disbelief! Anyone that says that fits ignorate. I dont know if I spelled that right, so just go with it. :-P
She has beautiful hair, sweet angelic face, and curls to die for.
I like what Kalki said. Kick them!
But what gorgeous color! I would pay good money for hair like little Lucy's.
her hair is gorgeous
I love red hair - it is by no means a coinky-dink that I have dated SEVERAL red heads - um, let's see...at least 8 red headed fellas? see!
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