Are ginger people less than human?

[WhiteCrowNZ]

Something's triggered me off on this.

My wife in the 1990s was terrified she was going to have a ginger baby - in fact when Cameron was first born the first thing she asked was "oh God he's not ginger is he". He wasn't. But in all seriousness she felt that ginger people were a "genetic throwback".

Fast forward a decade, and science has caught up with her ....

http://www.dhamurian.org.au/anthropo...nderthal1.html

Seems that people with red hair most likely have some kind of Neanderthal DNA.

Although from the article ...

The Neanderthals are generally thought to have been a less intelligent species than modern man, Homo sapiens. They were taller and stockier, but with shorter limbs, bigger faces and noses, receding chins and low foreheads. They had a basic, guttural vocabulary of about 70 words, probably at the level of today's two-year-old, and they never developed a full language, art or culture.

Thats most of the guys I play Rugby with!

But this does kind of suggest ginger people are less than fully human. That they all are kind of ugly, short, brutish and generally backwards ...

[duncan]

My son is ginger and the last time I checked he was most definitely human! I just wish that society would leave ginger haired people alone.

[SiHart]

It seems very odd to pick on people just because of their hair colour. People can be lovely or shits or clever or not so clever and none of that depends on what colour hair they've got.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

I think ginger people are often quite beautiful.

Si.

[SiHart]

You only have to look at how Doctor Who fans are lusting after Karen Gillan to see that in action Si.

Si xx

[Stuart Wallis]

I think ginger people are often quite beautiful.

Yeah, my sexual preference is for redheads and gingers; can#t see what people's problem is.

[Anthony Williams]

Yeah, my sexual preference is for redheads and gingers; can#t see what people's problem is.

Mine too! Whitney's not naturally redhead/ginger, but she looks great with red hair, and I'm glad she keeps dying it

Ant x

[Captain Tancredi]

For some reason natural red hair seems to be a negative but adding some russet colouring is the in thing. It's not just the hair colour, though- it's the peaches-and-cream complexion which adds to the effect (although that might just be somebody I work with).

[WhiteCrowNZ]

Whitney's not naturally redhead/ginger, but she looks great with red hair, and I'm glad she keeps dying it

Isn't dying your hair ginger about as politically correct as wearing blackface???

[SiHart]

Only to you apparently Mike

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

No-one minds if you sit under a sunbed for twenty minutes every day to make your skin darker.

Si.

[WhiteCrowNZ]

No-one minds if you sit under a sunbed for twenty minutes every day to make your skin darker.

Erm ... yes they do. They banned sunbeds at my gym for health reasons ... it's spraytan or nothing now ...

[Lissa]

There is a difference between people with auburn, red or orange hair and your classic "ginger". Being "ginger" generally means you have the pale skin, pale eyes and freckles to go with your orange hair and eyebrows. In white people it's about the only hair colour that has other pigmentation issues connected to it. Well, there are albinos but they're pretty rare.

I dodged the genetic bullet - pops has orange hair (or he did before I made it go grey) so I probably could've too. It can look good as a bottle colour - like Doctor Alice - but I wouldn't want to be stuck with it.

[Si Hunt]

Erm ... yes they do. They banned sunbeds at my gym for health reasons ... it's spraytan or nothing now ...

But not for the same reasons as you were suggesting.

Si.

[Jeff]

In the US we have more serious racial issues, so nobody gives a shit what color your hair is.

[Stuart Wallis]

Right now, millions of Americans are being called upon to burn... bottles of red hair dye?! Good old US of A! A nation with a great sense of proportion.

Lissa; out of interest, is it the health problems related with the skintone, or do you just not think red's your colour?

[Alex]

In the US we have more serious racial issues, so nobody gives a shit what color your hair is.

We're slowly catching up with you though.