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[andrewducker]

[Poll #1309180]

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

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" ...

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I rest my case.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I must find these people who dislike freckles and red hair AND DESTROY THEM ALL!

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

There's nothing in this world beats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girl.

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

Yay! Although I prefer them separately (ie: the brown-eyes-red-hair thing and OTOH my ace freckles).

[accordingly.livejournal.com]

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.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Though as a natural redhead myself, I should point out any "Yay!" is purely for the opposite sex.

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

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.

[zz]

...assuming we're talking about girls.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Freckles = cute and fun
Red hair = utterly sexy
Both combined = *melts*

[heyokish.livejournal.com]

freckles on me? hate them. Freckles on other people? Fabulous.

[giantbedsprings.livejournal.com]

8 people hate my freckles... :-(

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of wiki-p:

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]