#ginger hate

So, this guy was all talking to me and flirting with me and I was super interested in him. He told me that he couldn't be with me because I have a ginger gene. He proceeded to tell me that he thought that ginger kids were awful. So I was like "Let me get this straight. If you have a ginger kid, you won't love it?". He was like "Yeah". 

How is this a real fucking thing?

Me : Mom, since I don't have a dad, I think that you had sex with Chuck Norris and I was born

Mom: errrr... no

Me: Are you cool with you fucking Chuck Norris?

Mom: He's too much of a Ginger.

Jeans. Jeanetics. A topic I'm studying in Biology this year, which in fact I find very interesting in a sad and nerdy way.

The first thing about jeanetics that I find so interesting is when you transfer the theory to real life situations, like hair and eye colour. For example, I have the good old recessive alleles (an alternative version of a jean) (I cannot continue saying 'jean' it distresses me), on my 16th Chromosomes which cause a mutation in the MC1R protein. Or, in other words, I am a ginger.

Basically, I, and my brother, both inherited 2 recessive alleles from our parents. This means both my mum and dad carry this red haired allele on their chromosomes, they just have another allele which is more dominant, giving them a NORMAL hair colour. If I was a particularly sad individual, I might sit down and draw a genetic diagram trying to work out the probability of me and my brother getting red hair right now.

25%. Both me and my brother got the ginger gene, at a probability of 25%. 

However, ginger is not just ginger. Some people will argue that any slight orange hue to the hair is 'GINGER HAHA'. Not that I'm bitter or anything. To others there are many different and beautiful shades from a bright orange to a deep reddish brown. My brother has lighter more orangey hair than me, as some would call "Strawberry blonde" (Stupid name) whereas mine is darker, more of a brown with orange bits. Nice. Now you have built up an excellent image of me and my siblings heads I'd like to move on.

These last two posts I've managed to go off on a massive tangent, I have literally given myself a topic then just typed and typed until it has become clear that I'm losing my mind. However, the topic of the Ginger stereotype is not a bad one to carry on talking about.

Firstly I would like to point out that I am not some extreme 'ginger lover' like a fairly well known Youtuber, CopperCab. I know that most of the ginger memes and the like over the internet are jokes. However there are a few individuals out there that actually seem to have a passionate, angry hatred towards me and my fellow carrot heads. Why?

Does our vibrant orange hair burn your retinas? Does our stereotypically pale skin cause blindness in the sun? Or is it our notoriously fiery tempers, which flair up if you so much as look at us? Or is it the fact we don't have souls, which is a fair reason I guess. Mind you, if having a soul means I'd turn out like them, hating people because of a pigment mutation which they had no control over, I think I'll pass thanks. I would like to point out I like my hair colour, especially in the sun, I just don't like how damn unmanageable and frizz-tastic it is. 

Okay, I just did a search on Youtube saying "I hate gingers" and the first video I watched is two fat girls, smoking and offering reasons why they hate "gingers". I didn't actually hear any reasons, just heard the word 'FU#K' and 'GINGER' a lot. She actually said she didn't know why she disliked us. There's plenty more videos like it! I think the main reason people hate red heads is because they go on about it so much. Which is ironic because that's exactly what I'm doing now, only because it's an interesting issue, especially to me.

I'd love to find a 'legit' reason as to why people hate red hair so much. I will continue my search. So anyway, this was originally going to be a post where I chat about various genes and stuff, but rapidly declined into a discussion on 'gingerism'. 

I will make a post soon about our different chromosomes, and the characteristics they hold! In an interesting way (maybe).

  http://bigeyedeer.wordpress.com/category/iraq/

http://christophreilly.hubpages.com/hub/Redheads-Myths--Legends--and-Famous-Red-Hair

Some interesting history on redheads: The ancient greeks believed that when redheads died, they would come back as vampires. FEAR US.

An Irish judge in 2001 fined a man for disorderly conduct stating "I am a firm believer that hair colouring has an effect on temper, and your colouring suggests you have a temper." Cor.

Researchers at the Uni of Louisville discovered that, on average, people born with red hair required about 20% more anaesthesia to obtain satisfactory sedation.

Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud recounts what it was like being called the "ugly one" in the press -- and other pop singers (including Lily Allen, oi), in her moving lyric video for Sticks + Stones.