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Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

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What a fun read for a ginger, or even someone who loves a ginger. There is some depressing history in here, but the overall message at the end is so uplifting that it‘s worth it. I am a proud redhead. I wish I had this book when I was younger, when I wanted more than anything to be blonde or brunette so I could “be like everyone else.”
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GingerAntics I think the gingers of the world (2%-6% of the population) need a book like this. I‘m glad it exists. Is it perfect? No. Is anything? No. Is this worth the read? Absolutely. #JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead 5y

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I don‘t know what book the other Liten read, but these are the closing words (literally the last words of the book) and they point blank differentiate between the minor issue of hair color prejudice, and other more dangerous forms of prejudice...and not one mention of Black Lives Matter. No one in their right mind, including this author, thinks ginger-hate is anywhere near racism!!!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead

GingerAntics This is a beautiful call to action. I think the snarky review claiming Harvey equates ginger-hate with Black Lives Matter says far more about that litten and absolutely nothing about this book. 5y

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Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Ginger in every shade.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #shadesofred
P.S. Now I want to write a book of satire called “50 Shades of Red” 🤣😂🤣

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Are we talking red velvet or carrot cake? Done well, I‘ll take either!!! lol
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #gingercake #cake #redvelvet #carrotcake #everythingisbetterwithcake (and a ginger)

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Gingers are more compassionate. Hm. Interesting observation.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #compassion #love #kindness

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

This would be a fun and interesting situation to find one‘s-ginger-self in. Bucket list, baby!!!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #redheaddays

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Sadly, this wouldn‘t surprise me either.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #discrimination

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Redheads, redheads everywhere. What do you call a group of redheads, anyway?!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #collectivenoun

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Fact over myth. Good to know.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #myth

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

As one does.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #RedheadDays

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

And yet it happens all the time. For all the clearly wrong prejudices that have been brought back since 2016, I‘m still waiting for the day it‘s okay again to openly do and say horrible things to gingers. I‘ve heard a few terms in my day that I‘m really hoping to never hear again.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #prejudice #hate #anger #rage #trumpsamerica

GingerAntics In the Litsy reviews for this book, someone claimed that Harvey equated ginger hate to Black Lives Matter. If this is the section that person was talking about, no she did not. She didn‘t even come remotely close to that. I‘ve got one chapter left (Redhead Days) and I‘ve yet to find any mention of (let alone any equating to) Black Lives Matter. 5y

julesG I think the only time I truly detested having dyed my hair from its then still natural blonde to red was overhearing my father saying "If the roof's rusting, then the cellar's moist." ?? 5y

GingerAntics @julesG WOW!!! Your father said that about his daughter. That‘s just...WOW!!! Yeah, there was a whole chapter on that, how redheads are supposed to be more sexual than other people...at least red headed women. (edited) 5y

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julesG It was an offhand remark about redheads in general and he was talking to my mother, but still. 🤮 5y

GingerAntics @julesG by still... wow. Thanks dad. 5y

Izai.Amorim And after that they‘ll come for the left handed people. 5y

GingerAntics @Izai.Amorim oh god I‘m one of those, too!!! CRAP!!! 5y

Izai.Amorim Oh!!!! 😱😱 Red head and left handed! In the middle ages they would have burned you as a witch! The word for left in Italian is sinistra, deriving from il sinistro, the devil. The left hand is the evil hand... And in Africa they kill the albinos. Welcome to the human race: If it's different, we kill it! 5y

GingerAntics @Izai.Amorim exactly!!! I grew up Catholic which is still mildly Middle Ages. lol some of my earliest memories are of my grandmother ripping crayons and forks out of my left hand and shoving them in my right hand. I‘m forced ambidextrous now, but I far prefer my left over my right for writing and drawing. 5y

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Do we really? Books is a definite no (just look around Litsy). Fads are a maybe; we all see the same fads eventually. Celebrities are a definite no. I don‘t even know who most celebrities are or why they‘re “famous.” Movies are another maybe. Goods, another maybe.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #movies #celebrities #books #fads #goods

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Oh my god, how did I miss this. This was okay to her? This is the same woman who claims objectification of women is bad? Guess what, that works the other way round, sweetheart. I really can‘t stand this chick.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #taylorswitft (there‘s a hashtag I never thought I‘d use) #objectification

Texreader Ha! Yeah... 5y

TheBookHippie I loathe Taylor loathe and I don‘t say that often about people I don‘t know 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️she turns my stomach I can‘t even watch her. 🤢 5y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie that is my exact sentiment as well. Eh. 🤢 5y

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julesG I think it was a reference to Ed Sheeran, they might have had a thing going at one time. Sheeran has a song called "Don't" that might, or might not, be about this fling. 5y

GingerAntics @julesG she does get around...and then tells the world about it in a song. Now I‘ve got to look up this Ed Sheeran song. 5y

julesG That's her MO. I think that's why E.S. retaliated. 5y

GingerAntics @julesG love it. Must find this song now. 5y

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#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #family

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Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

This happens to my best friend and I all the time. It probably doesn‘t help as consider ourselves sisters anyway.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #sisters #friends

Crazeedi My sister is a true redhead, I'm auburn. My mom was true redhead as was her father, who's nickname was....Red 5y

GingerAntics @Crazeedi lol This book calls Benedict Cumberbatch a redhead, but he makes the distinction between red and auburn, too. He says he can‘t quite claim ginger ever so slightly, but he has plenty of relatives that can. My mom and her dad and her brother were all ginger, too. My mother used to not be able to say her brother‘s name (Kevin), so she called him Rusty when she was little. lol you get the best and the worst nicknames when you‘re ginger. 5y

GingerAntics @Crazeedi I had a coach call me “red headed stepchild” once. 5y

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Crazeedi @GingerAntics my mom was called Rusty by her friends all her life. And my husband has called me a red headed step child when I'm working too much! Lol 5y

GingerAntics @Crazeedi I suppose that‘s one way to make you stop working. lol 5y

Crazeedi @GingerAntics that's very true!! 😉 5y

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Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Yes to this for every single woman (and man for that matter), whoever they are!!!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #freedom #freedomofexpression

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Well, that‘s an interesting fact. Hm. So many people hate it, yet so many people want it. WTF?!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #hairdye

Texreader 1980s, while on a school trip to San Angelo (that‘s important because the water there was really filled with some weird stuff), a friend with black hair decided to dye it red. It turned a very very purple. Obviously the weird water affected it. Her behavior still puzzles me. The all important, why? And why on a school trip? 🤔 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader wow?! What exactly was in that water? So many *interesting* things from the sounds of it. lol 5y

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REALLY?! This is just tragic. Admittedly, I fully believe it shouldn‘t be a big deal at all to come out as gay, bi, trans or anything else, ones hair colour certainly NEVER should factor into “coming out.”
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #poorguy

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This is probably why I am SO confused as to what I actually want for my own damn hair. Everyone seems to think they get to decide and tell you how to wear it. I don‘t even know what‘s my idea and what‘s someone else‘s anymore.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #itsmyhead

Texreader This feels the same for folks with curly hair. I hated my curly hair growing up. It was massive and unmanageable until I found a decent hairstylist. But everyone tells curly haired people to just love it, and they are offended if you try to do something different, like its their hair! Then I had kids with crazy curly hair. They‘ve both embraced it brilliantly (better than I ever did). 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader that is such a good comparison. (God help me I have red hair and curly hair 😱) I feel like other people love it, but the people that actually know me feel like when it‘s curling nicely, it‘s messy. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Bloody double edged sword. 5y

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God lord, THIS!!! Ask first. I beg of you. Don‘t be creepy.

I can‘t help wondering if this isn‘t part of the reason, in ancient Ireland, it was considered taboo to touch someone‘s hair without permission.

#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #notouching #askfirst #itsmyhead

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

@julesG MIND. BLOWN. I‘m down here in bloody Liberia (well, more like the Mediterranean Sea) and all my ancestors are from up in France, Ireland, Scotland, and Norway. No wonder we far prefer the climate in Minnesota and we don‘t mind Canada. My mind is absolutely blown.
#maps #mapmania #superimposed #vitaminD #health #sun #climate

GingerAntics @julesG I guess my 2nd/3rd grade German teacher did say Germany was SIMILAR to Minnesota. I suppose that fits with this. It‘s different, but not REALLY different. A little cooler. A little less daylight. 5y

julesG Lots of Germans emigrated to Minnesota. I think I have distant relatives there, too. My maternal great-grandmother's cousins emigrated about a hundred years ago. 5y

GingerAntics @julesG we sure do. We have a lot of people of German and even Scandinavian decent. I first started learning German in a little catholic school that‘s as an old German parish, started by German immigrants. I guess it‘s a slight step up for Germans and a massive step up for Scandinavian folks, from the looks of it. 5y

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Texreader This is so cool!! 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader I googled and figured I‘d get a table or something. This map is way better. No tables or numbers needed. I never knew I needed this map, but I totally did. lol 5y

ju.ca.no This is really cool! Still you have to keep in mind that european weather is much warmer then the US‘s because of the gulf stream😊 but especially cool to see the distances like that! 5y

GingerAntics @ju.ca.no I wasn‘t so much concerned with weather as I was with how much daylight each country got. It stemmed from a conversation about vitamin D, from the tagged book. I do know it‘s warmer than you‘d think from this map in the U.K. 5y

ju.ca.no @GingerAntics ah I see☺️ I didn‘t even think of that😅 (edited) 5y

GingerAntics @ju.ca.no 🤣 that‘s the trippy part of this book. It goes places you wouldn‘t imagin. Jules is in a Germany and she was saying she was on this huge prescription vitamin D supplement once when she said Germany gets less daylight then we do here, so I googled and found this map. It‘s mind blowing that Europe‘s weather is very similar to here, but it‘s so much further north. 5y

ju.ca.no @GingerAntics it‘s really interesting indeed! I never really thought of that! 5y

GingerAntics @ju.ca.no right? We really don‘t think of all the little ramifications of being a few extra degrees north, even if the weather is similar. I‘m sure someone, somewhere has done studies of all the weird ways 15 minutes less daylight can effect the human body. To think, for millennia people have survived in all these different places without vitamin supplements or even knowing about vitamins. The human body really is an amazing thing. 5y

GingerAntics @ju.ca.no the tagged book talks about this lost viking colony in Greenland I think, and how science now believes that they all died because of a severe deficiency of vitamin D causing their bodies to just shut down. It‘s an interesting thought. 5y

ju.ca.no @GingerAntics that is indeed an interesting thought! 🤔 5y

GingerAntics @ju.ca.no written well, that could be really interesting to read about. 5y

ju.ca.no @GingerAntics it‘s really an interesting thought! I work in a museum where we also deal with climate and such things, I might try to work it into our exhibition as I really think this is super interesting to know! 5y

GingerAntics @ju.co.no oh that would be cool as an exhibit piece in a museum. The different side effects of living in different climates, and how those climates compare to other areas at the same latitude. 5y

ju.ca.no @GingerAntics exactly! We already deal with side effects - but we don‘t compare it much to other areas yet, so this would totally work as an addition🤗 5y

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Amazingly true sentiment about genealogical DNA tests.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #genetics #dna #wereallrelated

Texreader True! 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader I actually did a genealogical DNA test in 2013. I was so excited to do it, but then nothing really came of it...until this past year. It got me a literally sister (and two brothers). 5y

Texreader @GingerAntics Wow! Now there‘s some serious results! I did one a couple years ago. I‘ve been working on my genealogy since I was a kid and the DNA confirmed everything I knew—all Western European. The only surprise was some small amount of Iberian peninsula dna. I haven‘t yet tracked any ancestors there. 5y

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GingerAntics @Texreader I have a small percentage of that as well, but still no ancestors from there. My biggest shock was all the “viking” Norwegian I had in me. That‘s all the side I knew nothing about. 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader I‘ve been into genealogy since I was a kid, too. The DNA really gave me a whole new bit of information. I had long since given up on knowing anything or anyone from the unknown side of my family, then June 2019 I went from back to square one on a Sunday to knowing everything and everyone by Thursday. It‘s was crazy. It took one person logging in I‘d contacted ages ago who just hadn‘t logged in for a long time, and bam. 5y

Crazeedi @GingerAntics wow that's amazing. What can be discovered from our DNA is so crazy. 5y

Texreader @GingerAntics that‘s why it‘s such a fun hobby!! 5y

GingerAntics @Crazeedi it really is amazing what all is in our DNA. 5y

GingerAntics @Texreader it is a great hobby. I definitely agree with that. 5y

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Scary? Me? Seriously? This can‘t be remotely close to true. I find this humorous.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #notscary

Crazeedi We are all this and much much more!!😉❤ 5y

GingerAntics @Crazeedi ya got that right!!! I don‘t feel scary though. The rest of it, maybe. 5y

Crazeedi @GingerAntics well they mostly arent sure how to take us, actually they have to be strong independent individuals too 5y

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GingerAntics @Crazeedi that makes sense... I think most of my “gingerness” was punished out of me as a kid. I may need to learn to re-embody my gingerness. lol 5y

Crazeedi @GingerAntics just do it!! 5y

GingerAntics @Crazeedi so like Nike, but cheeper. lol 5y

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SEE!!! Pale skin is better. Everyone can shut up and stop telling me to “get some sun.”
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #pale #paleskin #vitaminD

julesG Well, you should still get some sun for the vitamin D, 30 minutes in natural daylight with your skin free of sunblock should do the trick. Don't get burnt, don't roast in the sun for a tan. I have pale skin, too (thank you, Scandinavian genes), but have learned that my MS is less active when I get sun as often as possible. Just looking out for you here. 😘 5y

Crazeedi My dr told me I should supplement with D since I have this complexion 5y

Crazeedi @julesG I've read that most people who live north of a certain latitude are vit D deficient 5y

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julesG @Crazeedi True, especially in winter. I had to supplement with 10.000 IU once a week for a year, now I have to take 1.000 IU per day. 5y

GingerAntics @Crazeedi it‘s easier for you to make it naturally, but in certain climates you still need to supplement. (edited) 5y

GingerAntics @julesG I generally don‘t use sunscreen because my skin is so sensitive, using it once has me broken out for weeks and putting it on top of that burns. I can get burned in as little as 5 minutes, depending on the sun. I walk everywhere, though, so as long as it‘s sunny, I‘m getting my vitamin D. 5y

GingerAntics @julesG holy mother that seems like such a lot of vitamin D. It‘s been so rainy here lately, I‘m beginning to wonder if I should start popping a few vitamin D tablets. 5y

julesG Don't forget, I live in an area that has fewer hours of sunlight all year round than where you live. You should be fine. 5y

GingerAntics @julesG Germany has less sun year round? No one ever told us that in all my years in German class. I just found this map that superimposes Europe and the US based on latitude. Germany, and the UK are all up in bloody Canada!!! Hungary, Austria and most of France are up around Minnesota (which has normal bloody weather. Wow, ya learn something every day. 5y

julesG See. And yet, I'm glad I don't live in the Scandinavian parts with little to no sun all winter. 5y

GingerAntics @julesG yeah, three hours of daylight, one hour of daylight, then in summer the sun comes up at like 3 am. I don‘t know how my ancestors did it. 5y

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This is straight up legit...at least where I‘m concerned.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #tomboy
#TotalDisappointmentToMyGrandmother

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What the ever. loving. actual. F#$%?! Berg is one sick, sick puppy.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #CharlesBerg #freudian #sickpuppy #wtf #sickandtwisted

Karisa What the heck?! 🤣 That one made me do a double take. Sounds like something a Saturday Night Live character would say. 🤪 5y

GingerAntics @Karisa right? It sounds like a joke, but this dude was serious, which makes it pretty creepy. Who thinks of Santa and penises?! 5y

julesG Gotta love Freud and his cronies. 😂😂😂 5y

GingerAntics @julesG right? I‘m still wondering how on Earth no one thought “hey, this sounds really weird.” Did no one read things they wrote before publishing? I tend to find with Freudians, their weird views are more about them and absolutely nothing to do with anyone else. 5y

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Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Who knew?!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #genetics #MC1Rmutant

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

🙄 Well, obviously. 🙄 Everyone knows the precise, biological location of the ginger gene. Duh. 🙄 That‘s basic 5th grade biology.
🤣😂🤣 I think I‘ll just stick with “MC1R Mutant” thanks. So much simpler. 🤣😂🤣
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #genetics #MC1Rmutant

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red #Ginger #redhead #gingersinart

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Sounds like what Americans tried to do with the Native Americans. The lovely legacy of the English and all that hate can do.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

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Jerks. You‘ve completely forgotten the redhead badass.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

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#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Fun Fact
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

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This is why we‘re freakin unicorns!!!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

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Interesting. Just more proof that we‘re really all the same.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

This is why I refuse to follow “redhead appreciation” social media account. They‘re all basically soft core porn.
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

Oh the contradictions!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red

Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey

I only ever heard the Irish or Scottish bit. The rest of it sounds like a hoot!!!
I actually started this one in November. I kept forgetting to actually post the quotes after I made them, so sorry in advance for the ginger spam!
#JackyCollissHarvey #Red