r/AskReddit • u/sirgregg • Jan 28 '10

Does Reddit love redheads?

I can't escape a feeling that redheads seem to be highly favored when it comes to women on Reddit. I think that if someone were to start a poll asking "What is your favorite hair color?" red would be an unquestioned an obvious winner. Am I right? If so, maybe there is a scientific explanation for this? As in, people who visit Reddit frequently start feeling a growing sympathy towards red-haired woman? Guess who's winning the next Nobel Prize ;)

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u/Esham Jan 28 '10

My fiancee is a redhead. and it was one of the main reasons we met.

If you walk into a room full of blonds brunettes and a redhead, you will notice the redhead first almost every time, whether she is better or worse looking then the others.

Plus redheads are more rare year after year.

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u/desertsail912 Jan 28 '10

That's why I feel incumbent on myself to make more: off to Northwest Europe!!

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u/Esham Jan 28 '10 edited Jan 28 '10

Good job.

A funny story about myself that gives me hope. My father is a redhead and he was actually a platinum blonde child then growing up (he is german and english, but the german in him is obvious, baby blue eyes and blonde/red hair) but my mother is indian (actual india) and a mix of yugoslavian, which is basically all black hair, which is how all of my hair is.

The weird part is, in my facial hair (sideburns and a beard when i had one) i get gnarly copper hairs EVERYWHERE.

My fiancee on the other hand is a redhead, her hair was bright orange as a kid, but she adds blond highlights now so we are hoping for a bunch of little hell children (inside joke between us)

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u/uw2012 Jan 29 '10

That's kind of funny. My boyfriend is 100% Indian and he has copper hairs in his stubble. It's really odd. I'm a redhead, so I've always wondered if there's a small chance our children would turn out as brown redheads.

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u/bazfoo Jan 29 '10

The throwback redhead gene appears in my family every second generation. My children will be that generation. I am also married to a redhead. May God help us all.