First Ginger Pride March blazes trail on streets of Edinburgh:
Countless gasps and shrieks were no doubt suppressed in Edinburgh
Saturday when scores of redheads met during the Fringe Festival for a
Ginger Pride Walk. The event was organized by fiery-haired Canadian
comedian Shawn Hitchins, and featured smiling pale folks parading
through the streets holding signs that read "It gets redder" and "Ginger
and Proud." "Even although it isn't a real word, gingerism exists and
bullying exists and you can’t deny that kids are being subjected to
taunts or being bullied in schools just for having red hair," Hitchins
said. His Scotland vacation must have been a breath of fresh air;
Scotland is lousy with gingers, home to a fifth of the world's redheads.
(BULLIED? WTF??THEY ROCK!!!)
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ADDITIONALLY:
It ain't
easy being a redhead. But if you've got fiery locks and have endured
years of high school bullying, then bag yourself a job in the NYPD,
because hair-related harassment won't be tolerated there anymore.
According to sources, NYPD officers have just been told that making fun
of those with red hair is a form of discrimination, because redheads are
often of Irish or Scottish descent. Justine Lisser of the EEOC in
Washington, D.C., explains, "It's an innocuous-seeming criteria, but if
it has a 'disparate impact' on a certain racial group, red hair could be
considered the basis of discrimination." The force clarified its stance
after a number of officers allegedly complained about hair harassment
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