I’m a natural redhead and I get annoying, vulgar questions – I roll my eyes when men ask about my freckles
DATING is difficult in any circumstance but for people with particularly rare features, it can turn into a constant replay of the same boring lines.
One redhead said her hair color triggers obnoxious questions from strangers, suitors, and others who don’t realize she’s heard it all before.
Natural redhead Sydnie Green (@syd.the.ging) isn’t ashamed of her hair color: her TikTok handle is even a reference to it.
But in one video, Green was candid about the bizarre fixations many people have with her hair, especially men who think they’re being flirty.
Dancing under a rainbow filter, Green performed her best melodramatic moves as a series of invasive questions flashed onscreen.
The first is one redheads, blondes, and brunettes are all asked by the most vulgar of strangers.
The question “Does the carpet match the drapes?” is a euphemistic way of asking if all a woman’s body hair matches that on her head.
For Green, the fixation on her body didn’t end there.
A few people noticed her complexion and asked, “Do you wish your freckles could combine so you were tan all over?”
Teasing trolls tended to say, “Did you know there is a National Kick a Ginger day?”
And then there were those who simply couldn’t make sense of Green’s appearance.
Anyone who thought her red hair and freckles may not fit her familial mold asked, “Are you adopted?”
Over the years, Green has thankfully built up a tolerance for the annoying questions.
“The AUDACITY people have,” she wrote dismissively in the caption. “I laugh now.”
And while redheads may be rare, plenty of them flooded the comment section on Green’s video with similar stories.
“As a fellow ginger, 100 percent can say these are all accurate,” one attested.
One woman, weirded out by how much her experiences reflected Green’s, wrote, “We live parallel lives.”
Another said, “I’ve been asked if I know that ‘my kind’ is going extinct.”
A few expressed rage and disgust at the way Green had been spoken to, but she just brushed off the trolls.
“I think it’s so funny,” she wrote back, showing off her good sense of humor.