User post: Redheads...why they're nuts!!

yes, i do consider myself "weird"

wow. that's total crap. i'm a 100% natural redhead and i'm not a germophobe. nor am i passionate about seashells >:P

I always wanted to be strawberry blonde like my grandmother was.. I think redheads like Princess Fergie (Sarah Fergason) are the prettiest people... Unfortunately I was blessed with brown hair (though if I am out in the sun enough in the summer it has hints of red and blonde) that dominated my head after the age of 3.

okie dokie Dave, been reading your postings for a couple years. This is the weirdest one yet!

The only readheads I've ever known are freaking nuts!!!

Great post! Funny, bc just yesterday I was researching why red headed children are so often used in commercials-seriously. And I couldn't find an answer. I had done a research project in college on the psychology behind marketing (of which billions of dollars are spent)
So I'm still wondering what the allure is considering that red heads (especially red headed children) have such...stigmas? attached to them. I mean, they have gotten bad reps over the years, like that movie Problem Child; and yet there they are selling juice, Clorox Bleach, gummie vitamins and Campbell's Soup??
If you can explain I'm all ears!

I was teased so much as a red headed child. I was called pizza hut, fire engine red, and carrot top. Then I hated it and dyed it for years. It has only been in my late twenties that I have "embraced" the red and put it back natural. I guess red heads get teased because they are the odd ball out. Not many of them. I say GO RED also!

what about the darker reds? i have auburn hair, and have always considered myself a redhead

Hey, we gingers are a proud race. We got Ron Howard! And my husband and I are doing our part to stop the extinction, we gingers are keeping it in the species... Yeah for red head monster children!

My wife is a true Irish redhead with a 2nd degree black belt and PMS I no longer need "extreem sports of any kind.

jim in salt lake

Because redheads have an "all american" apple pie look. That is why they are casted so frequently and sought after for print ads, commercials, etc. The extension theory has been debunked by the way.

this article is weird 0.o

This article is pretty funny. I thought it was serious at first but then realized it is very tongue-in-cheek. I am a natural redhead (real red, not strawberry blonde, blotchy or auburn). I know from what I've read that a small percentage of the population has natural red hair, which makes me feel kind of special :). But I have known a lot of redheads in my life (at my last job I worked with 3 natural redheads, so there were 4 of us!), and I do see a lot around where I live. Maybe it's just here in the Pacific Northwest that there's more of a concentration lol.
I come from a long line of redheads though: my grandma was a redhead and so is my mom, which is where I get it from. All of my mom's siblings had some shade of red hair. One of her brother's has 4 kids and they all have different shades of red hair. I haven't had kids yet but I'm sure I'd pop out a redhead too :).
If anyone is interested in reading more info about redheads, there's a great book called The Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning, and Sexual Power of Red Hair by Marion Roach.
I am proud to be a Ginger Kid and even have a t-shirt with that on it. For another good laugh check out http://www.myspace.com/igkf (for the International Ginger Kid Foundation) and http://apps.facebook.com/causes/1633/18442474?m=b231efc9&ref=nf a Facebook Save the Gingers page.

I love the term "splochies". I've always called myself spotted.

Redheaded children are sought for advertising because it is thought that it is the epitome of the "All American apple pie" look. The extinct theory has been going around the internet for a few years and is not true. Check this link http://science.howstuffworks.com/genetic-science/redhead-extinction.htm Also many of my redheaded friends have been told that redheads shouldn't wear pink which is BullS#%&! Pink looks great on a redhead!

Wow, they are going to be extinct? Dang, strange, but honestly, I have always found red heads to be very unattractive, they usually have the nice hair, but are extremely pale with hoards of freckles, i find freckles very unattractice, like moles all over, but I have seen some really pretty ones, but their attitudes usually monotone, so I don't know where the "fire" is.