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Fiery Red Heads & Misconceptions
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I do sympathise. Growing up, I bore a passing resemblence to Woody Allen - metamorphasised into Loyd Grossman with a change of specs, and the onset of middle-age. That meant I was always being thought of as accademic - which I'm not, or geeky and weird, which I'm not, and it always took time for me to overcome people's first impresssions.
It is just human nature, we have to live with it.
As for you GraceAnais, that's just sexism - nothing for you to worry your pretty little head about!
Kidding!!!!!
Ooooh, I'd love red hair. I have natural chestnut highlights in mine and I'm always trying to exaggerate them.
I think people are just really lazy and stereotype people on silly physical attributes. My friend is a fantastically intelligent neurologist who has just completed her Phd. She is also blond with huge melons and men just treat her like she is an imbecile. I've seen men who probably don't have a quarter of her intelligence talking to her like she is a particularly stupid child even after she has explained what she does for a living!
Further to my last post - I try really hard never to judge people by their appearence, since I met a girl at a party. i was told before she arrived that she worked in a local clothes store, so I already had her pegged as a no-brain shop girl. When we got talking, she told me that the shop job was just on Saturdays, to make money - the rest of the time, she was studying for a philosophy degree at Sheffield University. She was my first love, we went out for a year and a half, and i vowed to never judge people on appearences ever again.
That was thirty years ago, and I've stuck with my vow ever since.
Yes Drusilla, I do, although now I'm getting older it's not quite so bad. I'm tall, always been naturally skinny & I'm blonde (with a little help!). I'm not stunning or the brain of Britain but I'm not thick either & I've often had the comment 'Well, you're not what I expected you to be.' Which was what exactly??? I never ask because I know what they're getting at.
There's also the thing that if you look ok you can't possibly know how it feels to have been (or are still going) through the mill, either physically, emotionally or both. That really does get my back up!! Ooooh I could rant about some of my experiences all day!!
I get it a lot because, although I am 33, most people assume I am from 20-24. Which, is nice in some ways but I find I get patronised a lot and not taken seriously as people assume that I can only be fresh out of college, and just a kid, when in fact I have been a freelance professional in a very competeive industry for over 10 years. I find myself having to orchestrate 'guess how old I am' conversations or just try to mention it. People are shocked and don't believe me at first, but their tone changes almost immediately and sometimes visibly and I get some respect. (though on occasion I suddenly become competition so some don't like it)
drives me mad!! (funny being hit on by teenagers though!)
I'd love to have red hair, I've always envied people with it. Kate Winslet's hair in Titanic/Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge = my dream. I have 2 friends with red hair, both startling intelligent women, one doing Medicine and the other at Oxford doing Psychology and they embrace they're hair colour. However they are both pretty passionate people, maybe they are true to the stereotype :)
I'm just an ordinary brunette, although I've recently streaked my hair with a deep raspberry colour, which as certainly ended up with me being described as 'you know, her with the pink hair'. It's strange how people judge you on hair colour and weight more than anything else. I don't particuarly mind people thinking I'm serious because of my hair colour, I was a bit quiet and studious at school. Now I'm at Uni and I couldn't care less. If I was you, I'd just enjoy peoples misconceptions and really have fun proving them wrong!
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