# Red Haired People Are Fucking Repulsive. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433 "2006-09-27T23:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/41 "2006-09-28T02:09:47Z")
See, this is where you lost me: [QUOTE=bubastis] Redhead should be forced to handle all the manual labour in this world. You should be able to buy redheads to work on your farm or plantation. You should get some for inside work and some for outside work. You can have House Gingers and Field Gingers. [/QUOTE] Redheads would be just about the _worst_ choice for field work. They’d all get sunstroke and die. What’s next? A suggestion that all albinos should be lifeguards? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/42 "2006-09-28T02:14:01Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] I married your dream woman. [/QUOTE] You bastard! Does she have a sister? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/43 "2006-09-28T02:27:50Z")
Does the carpert match the drapes? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/44 "2006-09-28T02:27:52Z")
[QUOTE=bubastis] Yep, its perfectly acceptable to go on British TV and make jokes at the expense of Gingers. I distinctly remember Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall being described as a “Ginger Shithead” on live TV. Now, supposing they were discussing, I dunno, Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters. Would they be allowed to refer to him as a Gay Shithead, or any other such term? Maybe you think I’ve got my calvins in a knot here, but dammit, I’ve put up with shit like this since me arse was the size of a shirtbutton, as we say here. [/QUOTE] You know, the only time I’ve ever heard the word “ginger” from British TV was back on Monty Python in the “Biggles Dictates a Letter” sketch and it didn’t even have anything to do with redheads. > [@Monty Python](#): > > Biggles: Ginger! > Secretary: What? > Biggles: Rhyming slang - ginger beer. > Secretary: Oh. > Biggles: (into the intercom) Ginger. > Ginger: Hello, sweetie. > Biggles: I have to see you. > (The door opens, Ginger enters as a terrible poof in camp flying gear, sequins, eye make-up, silver stars on his cheeks.) > Ginger: Yes, Biggles? > Biggles: Are you a poof? > Ginger: (camp outrage) I should say not. > Biggles: Thank God for that. Good lad. (Ginger exits) Stout fellow, salt of the earth, backbone of England. Funny, he looks like a poof. ---
**Author:** ![purple\_haze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@purple\_haze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purple_haze)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/45 "2006-09-28T02:49:52Z")
HEY! Both of my kids have red hair. They are cute as hell. Shut up, you. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/46 "2006-09-28T03:04:11Z")
Redheads are irresistable to members of the opposite sex. Just ask any spouse of a redhead. Aspidistra - spouse of a redhead ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/47 "2006-09-28T03:12:10Z")
I have noticed that redheaded men are very hot or very unattractive. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. My husband likes my red hair. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/48 "2006-09-28T03:58:16Z")
Redheaded men are almost always ugly. Particularly the ones with the creepy invisible eyebrows and eyelashes. :: shudder :: Just my opinion, though. Obviously some perverts are actually into that sort of thing. Oddly enough, I really don’t think I’ve ever seen a woman with those creepy invisible eyebrows. Redheaded women are often quite attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/49 "2006-09-28T04:21:14Z")
Eric Stoltz and David Caruso and bad looking. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/50 "2006-09-28T04:22:35Z")
That was **aren’t** bad looking. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/51 "2006-09-28T04:46:23Z")
[QUOTE=Excalibre] Redheaded men are almost always ugly. Particularly the ones with the creepy invisible eyebrows and eyelashes. :: shudder :: Just my opinion, though. Obviously some perverts are actually into that sort of thing. Oddly enough, I really don’t think I’ve ever seen a woman with those creepy invisible eyebrows. Redheaded women are often quite attractive. [/QUOTE] It helps that red headed wonen have the socially approved option of using eye brow pencil. Makes a huge difference… ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/52 "2006-09-28T05:03:57Z")
My wife is a ginger and I give her shit about it all the time. Her ringtone is Cartman yelling RED POWER!!! RED POWER!!! She’s fucking hot, though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/53 "2006-09-28T05:24:10Z")
[QUOTE=bubastis] There should be a fucking cure for red hair. Its obvioulsy a genetic defect. [/QUOTE] You could be right. Red heads may not entirely be human See [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair) > [@](#): > > The results of a 2001 study, by University of Edinburgh and University of Oxford teams of geneticists led by Harding and Rees caused some to speculate that the gene responsible for red hair may have originated among the Neanderthals some 100,000 years ago.[1] Red-haired people would then be descendents of Neanderthal admixtures… ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/54 "2006-09-28T05:29:45Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] My wife is a ginger and I give her shit about it all the time. \ ***Her ringtone is Cartman yelling RED POWER!!! RED POWER!!!** \* She’s fucking hot, though. [/QUOTE] Tell your wife I love her. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/55 "2006-09-28T06:15:18Z")
As a young sprog I went out with a redhead name of Kay Singleton. Man she was hot, hot, hot!!! Going down on her was like eating a rusty brillo pad\*😃 \*just kidding ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/56 "2006-09-28T07:25:41Z")
My Dad (deceased) was a redheaded Irish-American with green eyes and visible eyebrows. He was tall, slender and handsome. He was disappointed when my brother turned out very blond and I, a dark-haired brunette. Both my bro and I have brown eyes that turn hazel upon occasion. Our Mom was 100% Croatian-American. I worked in Malaysia for a year, primarily with Chinese-Malay cow-orkers. Our IT Manager confided that the first time he saw someone with freckles, as an exchange student in St. Louis, he regarded the guy as one of the ‘spotted people.’ It was a hideous sight to him, and as it turned out, was the same to the rest of those I worked with who had encountered ‘spotted people.’ My moment of comparable weirdness was when working for the same American company in a medium-sized town in England. I was at a round table discussion and while speaking, looked up to see all the pale blue eyes focused on me. I truly understood what the Chinese meant when they spoke of ‘ghost people.’ It haunts me. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/57 "2006-09-28T08:16:25Z")
Yitzhak Rabin was a redhead. No real reason - it’s just that most people outside Israel don’t know that. He went grey early, and I don’t think he had any color pictures made as a young man, but he used to have the whole deal: bright orange hair, pale skin, freckles. It was pretty much his calling card. ---
**Author:** ![ignoramus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@ignoramus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignoramus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/58 "2006-09-28T08:33:17Z")
[QUOTE=bubastis] Yep, its perfectly acceptable to go on British TV and make jokes at the expense of Gingers. I distinctly remember Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall being described as a “Ginger Shithead” on live TV. Now, supposing they were discussing, I dunno, Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters. Would they be allowed to refer to him as a Gay Shithead, or any other such term? [/QUOTE] But it’s OK to hate gingers, because they have no [soul](http://www.gingerkids.org/faq.html). ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/59 "2006-09-28T09:30:18Z")
[QUOTE=Amp] You bastard! Does she have a sister? [/QUOTE] Yes, as a matter of fact, she does. However, the sister is a Lesbian. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433/60 "2006-09-28T09:45:51Z")
[QUOTE=bubastis] Yep, its perfectly acceptable to go on British TV and make jokes at the expense of Gingers. [/QUOTE] Yup, just as it is also acceptable to go on British TV and make jokes about blondes, black people, Asians, homosexuals, homophobes, fat people, vegetarians, teenagers, old people, hippies, slobs, posh people, Greeks, Spaniards, Germans, Dutch, Norwegians, yuppies, farmers, office workers, the army, the navy, the air force, chefs, shopkeepers, managers, lodgers, prison warders, prison inmates, detectives, policemen, and any number of other categories of people, both eccentric and mundane. What was your point, exactly? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/red-haired-people-are-fucking-repulsive/374433.md?page=4)