Are true red heads Really different and in what ways?

Nope. Not any more likely than my being stupid or ditzy because I’m a blonde.

I married a woman that has red hair. women with red hair fall into one of two categories. they are mean as the dickens or they are passive. fortunatley, my wife is a big-hearted passive person. i only wish i could say the same for her mother(also has red hair). she was born in March with fire and brimstone.

Lucille Ball is a classic example of both. didn’t you just love her?

I don’t believe that at all.

Morning Lucy.

One daughter has naturally curly red hair and she has horrible judgment. Her dad is a Ph.d and said , ‘there is no cure for all her problems.’

Wait, you think she has poor judgment because she has red hair?

Just want to make sure I’m reading that correctly.

Well, I guess not. I just never see hair like hers and this older lady had an impact on me when she said, “she’s a redhead ; they’re kind of different. ” I’m as gullible as they get.

I am kinda different. I am have a fiery temper and you do not want to be on my bad side. I have had old ladies ask to rub my hair for good luck. I have also had old ladies tell their hair dressers that they want my shade of red. I love being a redhead!

@john65pennington -Good morning,John ;)

I am a red head as well as others that have answered this question previously. I believe that this is just a myth. I think peoples’ minds have gotten more…creative…over the years. I have bi-polar so I am a little of an odd ball but no more so than some other people I have met with the same issues as me. It has nothing to do with the color of hair. (if another red head tells you otherwise, they might just have the need to feel special, which isn’t a bad thing. no offense to anyone.) Hope this helps. :)

My sister was a short little firecracker Very stubborn , hot tempered. I am the complete opposite. She was a Taurus too.( Have no clue why I threw that in) Complete red head.I loved her dearly. If that helps any.

You mean other than natural redheads being superior to all other life forms? ~

My hair is naturally red (although it’s darkened as I’ve gotten older) and I’ve never had much of a temper. I don’t think I’m more “strange” than most other people. Everyone has their little quirks. A lot of people would think I’m weird because I really enjoy helping my son catch and learn about insects for his specimen collection and, during the summer, typically have several “bug projects” living on my kitchen counter. Currently there are about 30 caterpillars living in my house! My freezer is full of bugs that haven’t been pinned into the official collection yet.

On the other hand, I’m about as normal as you can get. I doubt my hair color has much to do with it, other than inspiring jealousy from those not blessed with coppery tresses. ;)

Redheads are highly unique and beautiful individuals, both inside and out. They are extremely loyal friends and lovers. They are given to poetry and good times. They are vibrant, endearing, and often highly original. They don’t exactly believe in the little people any more, but they are likely to come up with whatever comes next. Their souls are a great blend of ancient, renaissance, and modern heathen, and men and women alike drink a mean pint.

Japanese are afraid of them. Dogs love them – - Thor had red hair – - or rather, was given red hair by the Nordic. That alone pretty much says it all.

However, my rule of thumb is: “redheaded women are insane”. They have to prove themselves not. This started with my mother, or rather my grandmother – or maybe my great (who I knew well) or great-great grandmother. Suspicions continued on through a couple of girlfriends. I can’t put my finger on it. Perhaps my great grandfather put it best: “like spit on a skittle that one”, or “squirrely”.

Redheads can be extremely smart, but are more often just outright tenacious. They are pit-bull game in matters of importance and pride. Some mistakenly call this “pig headed”, or possibly “indomitable”.

If Maureen O’Hara in The Quiet Man (1952) is not the best poetic version of a red headed woman, then I don’t know what is.

Oh, and they tell a good yarn.

Ahh the fiery red head, along with the dumb blonde a figment of imagination.Who’s I don’t know,certainly not mine.

Red heads are my type. I <3 red heads.

I’ve dated/hooked up with/whatever probably 5 or 6 in my life. No real difference between them and the other girls I’ve dated.

Though I will say they were a lot freakier in the bedroom area….

I’m kind of different I suppose. I think my temper can be attributed to the fact that I’m of Irish, Ukrainian, and Polish decent lol On top of the red hair. I’ve been told that I’m a bit more passionate about the things I care about than others, so maybe its the red hair. But I definitely just think I’m unique and love being a redhead. My boyfriend is a redhead too and we’re fairly similar in personality.

I would say differences between redheads and other people are largely socialized. Redheads are always different from everyone else, and from childhood means differences with clothes, freckles, sunburn, obsession with sunscreen, having to cover up at the beach and pool, not being attractive to as wide a group of girls or boys, and being fawned over by old ladies. It’s not a dramatic impediment, but enough to disrupt one’s flow in a peer group. I would guess this causes redheaded personalities to be somewhat different from toward one extreme or another.

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While I agree with @kevbo about the ‘different’ factor, that’s the only thing I can think of that might influence our personalities with regards to our hair. Happily, my 12 year old daughter’s experiences with her red hair have been universally positive. My experience was a little different. By the time I was a teenager, everyone loved my hair, but when I was little, I often got teased about it by other kids. Nice to see that in just one generation, things change.

I think the challenge for REAL redheads is that ALL their hair is red . . . that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

No. what is under the hair is what counts!

@augustlan I found that my experience has been much like your daughter’s, it wasn’t until that stupid south park episode about “gingers” came out that I started to be made fun of

@CrazyRedHead OMG I hate that episode. When that came out everyone started talking about they needed to stay away from me because I had gingervitis.

That’s ridiculous. Hair color is all about genetics. Most people have dark hair, because they have a lot of the dark pigment eumelanin in their hair. This is a dominant trait, so people will inherit it from their parents if it is present.

Blond hair happens when people have less of this pigment. That’s a recessive trait. In order to inherit red hair, a person has to have low levels of dark pigment and high levels of red pigment (pheomelanin). That’s also a recessive trait. So the combination of traits that leads to red hair is pretty rare. Anyone who’s in the minority usually has a hard time, so all through history there have been negative stereotypes about redheaded people.

Red headed family. All I know is me, my sisters, and my daughters should all come with seatbelts.

@vbabe96 Exactly… :/

I have a few family members, friends and former boyfriends who have red hair. The only commonality is that they are all good people. Otherwise, their personalities span across the spectrum.

It bothers me when someone places a stereotype on someone. What concerns me is when someone with a specific genetic trait or nationality uses it for an excuse to act the way they are. There was a woman at work who would blow up at any little obstacle and then say, “Sorry…I can’t help it. I’m Italian. We have short tempers.”

I don’t believe that hair colour has anything to do with how someone is on the inside.

@john65pennington I forgot to address this before. I’m definitely not passive… so that makes me “mean as the dickens”? I’m thinking you’ve missed a huge range of personality types in there…

My best friend is redhead and I consider her a remarcable person.She’s very energetic,always happy or laughing and she also has a very strange and wild way to be.. so I really think that redheads have something special(maybe the gene for red hair comes with the gene for weirdness).I’m also totally in love ith red hair and redheads so maybe my opinion is influenced by that.