My goodness, so far *everyone* likes red hair, but about 20% of respondents don't like freckles ... not sure what I expected, but I was surprised by such an overwhelming "yay" for red hair given the chav culture complaints about "gingers" ...
Until recently I thought the chav ginger thing was just kids & teenagers being nasty little buggers to other kids & teenagers.
That was until I got a heap of verbal abuse from (adult, mid-30s) chavs while walking down the road near my work wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. Bit sad really.
Or Andy's flist is just more Scottish than average? I don't recall any ginger-teasing when I was a kid - maybe cos it's about as common as any other hair colour.
I remember as a kid reading one of the Narnia books {I think Voyage of the Dawn Treader} and there was a sentence where one of the characters said "and she had freckles; poor thing" or something along those lines. To my poor wee freckled self it was horrid and the first time I realised freckles weren't good to some people. And has clearly stuck with me for years.
That reminds me: I think it was Pippi Longstocking who saw an advert in a shop saying "Do you suffer from freckles?" She went in and told the shopkeeper "No!" "What?" "No, I don't suffer from freckles." "But you're covered in them." "Yes, but I don't suffer from them."
What's not to like about red hair? (Not biased at all, honest.)
I can live with my freckles & in general I don't think freckles are unattractive. There are some people who could do without them, or at least would look better with fewer: I'm thinking Patsy Palmer here.
The pale skin associated with red hair may be of advantage in far-northern climates where sunlight is scarce. Studies by Bodmer and Cavalli-Sforza (1976) hypothesized that lighter skin pigmentation prevents rickets in colder latitudes by encouraging higher levels of Vitamin D production and also allows the individual to retain heat better than someone with darker skin.[18] Rees (2004) suggested that the vividness and rarity of red hair may lead to its becoming desirable in a partner and therefore it could become more common through sexual selection.[19]
Harding et al. (2000) proposed that red hair was not the result of positive selection but rather occurs due to a lack of negative selection. In Africa, for example, red hair is selected against because high levels of sun would be harmful to fair skin. However, in Northern Europe this does not happen, so redheads come about through genetic drift.[15]
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andrewducker) wrote2008-12-04 09:30 am
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That was until I got a heap of verbal abuse from (adult, mid-30s) chavs while walking down the road near my work wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. Bit sad really.
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Unless they're cute, freckly and red-headed, obv.
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"What?"
"No, I don't suffer from freckles."
"But you're covered in them."
"Yes, but I don't suffer from them."
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I can live with my freckles & in general I don't think freckles are unattractive. There are some people who could do without them, or at least would look better with fewer: I'm thinking Patsy Palmer here.
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Red hair = utterly sexy
Both combined = *melts*
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also, side note: using wet plate collodion for portraits, man, freckles look extreme. Ever seen the Chuck Close daguerrotypes of Kate Moss?
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And yes, having expectations that are different to reality is always going to lead to self-hate :->
(Almost nobody I know likes their hair - if they have straight they want curly, and vice versa).
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The pale skin associated with red hair may be of advantage in far-northern climates where sunlight is scarce. Studies by Bodmer and Cavalli-Sforza (1976) hypothesized that lighter skin pigmentation prevents rickets in colder latitudes by encouraging higher levels of Vitamin D production and also allows the individual to retain heat better than someone with darker skin.[18] Rees (2004) suggested that the vividness and rarity of red hair may lead to its becoming desirable in a partner and therefore it could become more common through sexual selection.[19]
Harding et al. (2000) proposed that red hair was not the result of positive selection but rather occurs due to a lack of negative selection. In Africa, for example, red hair is selected against because high levels of sun would be harmful to fair skin. However, in Northern Europe this does not happen, so redheads come about through genetic drift.[15]