Monday, October 11, 2010

Oh, you are an endangered species. You are very rare.

Yep, the above title is a direct quote from one of my nurses a few weeks ago. And since she singled me out on appearance I will do the same and say she was Chinese.

What caused her to say this? The fact that I have red hair and a cleft chin. Evidently two rare, less than 1.0% of the world's population for either and I am sure much less in combination.

Doing a quick bit of searching I find she is somewhat correct. Geneticists are saying there is going to be a massive reduction in the number of redheads by 2060 to 2100.

I guess I really am unique. A dying breed.

Her manner of speaking lead me to infer that she thought having red hair and a cleft chin were positive things. And that rarely seems to be the case. Heck, even I find 80% of most redheads totally unattractive. I think I've only ever even kissed one.

Are there specific groups that have a thing for redheads????

My neighbors that are gay used to tease me when I worked at the UCSD in North Park to watch out as there is a large subculture in their community who digs red hair. I've also had a large number of black women compliment me on my hair color. I don't understand it.....

What do you think??????

Nor do I get the , "Oh, you're Irish huh?" comments. Scotland has the largest percentage of their population, 13%, as red heads. But I know my genetic history.

This is the genesis of my red hair, Norwegian vikings.

Not this.

3 comments:

  1. There are web pages devoted to the love of people with red hair. :)

    My grandmother and father (and a few uncles have it). It skipped me. :: sigh:: I've always been jealous.

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  2. Honestly, I never was much into red hair until about 2003. I dated two redheads before I met you, and I think it prepared me.

    Now I adore your tresses (if short hair can be called "tresses"). And your cleft chin reminds me of Cary Grant.

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  3. Wow! I'm a redhead with a cleft chin as well. And my ancestors, though they lived in what is now part of Scotland, were also Norwegian Vikings. We are probably related.

    I DO get tons of redhead fetishists. Be glad you don't. It gets really old really fast.

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