I am "a ginger"
It was a pain when I was a kid, of course, but there are plenty of other things you can be victimised for, no use complaining.
As an adult you're encouraged to laugh about it, which is fair enough, it's the English way, you aren't supposed to take it seriously.
But under it all it can't be denied that there remains a genuine social stigma attached to having ginger hair, for men at least.
It's not as simple as ginger = ugly, but you're immediately a few rungs down the pecking order when it comes to finding someone to take to bed.
The solution? Move abroad. The anti-ginger thing seems to be almost universally British. (We're also the place with the highest proportion of gingers... make of that what you will...)
It was never my motivation in coming over here, but it's absolutely a bonus when your hair colour is an exotic novelty rather than something to dye or shave off.
( Zuowan, Sat 27 Feb 2010, 13:36, 2 replies)

Yup
I've had a complete lack of 'random stranger giving me shit' since moving away to Norway, and red hair is definitely not more prominent here. It is as you say, a uniquely british piece of nastiness. In fact, trying to explain about anti-ginger sentiment in the UK sounds so absurd that I don't think anyone here believes me.
(wasps Optic Cockles, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 13:37, closed)

Even in the colonies it is better
Ginger-hating is nowhere near as bad in Australia.
(russet_gusset up the reds, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 20:06, closed)