My wife, a flaming redhead (although redhead red hair turns slightly blonde, but not gray, as the lovely possessor ages), pointed that out exactly as you put it, dating from about 6 years ago. Her take on it was that people think of them as somewhat innocent and trustworthy. I myself can think of no reason, but I too notice it now always.
I do notice that female redheads are members of a secret society, and will nod to each other and give a furtive smile of recognition to each other when they pass on the street. At least my wife does.
I have a theory on that one. Mascara. Regular female makeup easily mitigates the pink mouse look that invisible eyelashes give a person. Redheaded men are often kind of funny-looking.
That said, I’m a total sucker for 'em.
I seem to offend people quite regularly. But I’m not an actor, though I do play one on TV.
IIRC we never did succeed in pinning down the artistic-or-advertising-media origins of the standard blonde-brunette-redhead trio, although Mister Rik (and Exapno in this thread) may have a good point about the influence of color photography.
U.S. Guessing you forgot about the incident last November in Calabasas, California. I’d post a link, but, duh, I don’t know how. It was called “kick a ginger day”. They seem to believe the event was actually precipitated by the old South Park episode. And red hair on women as sexy is totally subjective.
Just cut and paste the URL into the post. If you leave spaces before and after, the system automatically converts it into a clickable link. You don’t need the http:// for this.
To make a word clickable use [noparse] word[/noparse] [the quotes are required]
You do need the http:// for this version.
When you hit the quote button, the formating is displayed, so you can always copy from that and paste in a new URL.
Not 100% on topic, but today, Mythbusters is filming an episode about redheads and pain threshold. I saw the “casting” call and got a friend of mine in.
I’ve never understood the fascination with redheads. With the exception of Felicia Day, I find red hair entirely unattractive. Blonde too. I am really drawn to dark hair.
Please do not ask about your horrifying, disgusting, debilitating, loathsome, nauseating, revolting, repulsive, and repugnant medical conditions in GQ. Seek qualified help.
Even Qadgop the Mercutan would run screaming from you.
If you mean that different people have different standards of sexiness, then absolutely. But if you surveyed a large number of men as to whether they find red hair sexy, I suspect you would find a majority in agreement that it is. So in that sense, yes, red hair on women is objectively sexy.
Because I’ll bet the first male redhead most Americans could name off the tops of their heads is Archie Andrews
This gave me a WTF?! moment - I saw my name bolded here before I saw that you were referring to an older thread, and I’m all, "Wait, I haven’t even replied to this thread yet!
I remember reading about the pain threshold thing a while back, and it occurred to me then that redheaded submissives/bottoms do seem to be extremely rare in BDSM/spanking porn.
Something no one has brought up yet:
I’ve been a ‘redhead’ for the past 25 years (since I was 23); in the winter, I go for a lighter auburn, in the summer, a deeper one. My skin is pale, and my natural coloring is very ‘Irish’. I’m actually half-Irish, half-German, but I definitely look Irish. So the red looks completely natural, and I like it (and it covers the gray!)
Without the hair dye, my hair is a very nondescript brown, with lots of gray at the roots (not pretty gray, either; battleship gray).
Anyway, one time when I went to my regular salon to have my hair-color done, my hairdresser opined that red is the one color that, in her humble opinion, any woman could pull off; she just needed to choose the right shade of red. You couldn’t say that about blond or brunette necessarily. But anyone can look good as a redhead. At least that was what she said.
Personally, I’ve gotten tons of compliments on my hair color, mostly including comments about how nice it is to see a ‘natural redhead’.
My skin coloring fools them every time.
Ironically, my mother almost had a seizure the first time I dyed my hair red. She said “I always prayed to God I’d never have a red-headed child, and look what you’ve done!!!”
I am a red-headed male and my eyelashes are quite dark, as are my eyebrows. That isn’t true for my sister who has to augment hers.
BTW, who is the redhead in the progressive commercials? The only one I can think of is the overly perky brunette (who is 10,000 kinds of hot, but that is another story).
I just want to warn everyone that there is a special level of Hell for anyone who participates in Kick a Ginger Day.
At one time, Red used to be a common nickname in sports, Red Schoendienst, Red Auerbach, Red Grange, Red Barber. My WAG is that this was a holdover from the time when the immigrant groups who were most likely to have red hair - Irish, Germans - hadn’t yet fully made it out of the lower class where sports was seen as a good route up. That’s less true today. And Dennis Rodman doesn’t count. The last macho Red I remember was the father on That 70’s Show and he barely had hair and what we saw was no longer obviously red.
The problem with the male image of reds is that they tend to have very pale skin. That milky white skin tone is still an acceptable image for females, even in the age of tanning, but on males it tends to look unmacho, as Conan O’Brien always jokes. Tanning isn’t much of an option for true gingers. As redhead Woody Allen used to joke, I don’t tan, I stroke."
Audrey Hollander.
Wait, who said that? Must be malware on my computer.
