Good. Send the redheaded women my way. The Italians wouldn’t know how to deal with them anyway.
My understanding is that red-headed boys have a lot more trouble than girls.
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I know of a whole family of redheads. Their hair is a beautiful color. :-)
As for the Sicilian connection, Sicilians are a big mixture of ethnic backgrounds. I’ve known a few redheaded Sicilians. But, in Sicily - in the old days, anyway - red hair was not viewed in a positive way.
It seems that red hair could become a marker for children who are conceived naturally rather than manufactured for purchase. This might indicate that they’re less likely to have nutcases (or homosexuals) for parents.
Just sayin’ ...
Don’t know about the guys, but red headed women get chased around the block and far down the street.
Lousy history.
The Normans had already conquered most of southern Italy before they invaded Sicily.
In ancient Rome, one of the most common cognomina (family names originating in nicknames, usually derived from some physical characteristic) was Rufus, which means redhead.
There was probably also some infusion of redhead ancestry from the Ostrogoths, Lombards and other German invaders over the centuries.
“’Cause you, you’re part eggplant.”
I think it is fascinating that Ramses the Great had red hair.
Supposedly King David did too.
By the time she was two it had turned blonde but by the age of 30 it had gone to a dark auburn.Northern Italy has redheads....my grandmother told me that..
I always liked red hair myself (though I do not have it) though I assume I would have agreed about the undesirability of red headed men UNTIL I took a trip to Scotland about twenty years ago and I was amazed at how many drop dead good-looking red-headed men there were.
Anyone who read the Outlander series (soon to be on tv!) will be familiar with reading about a good-looking red-heided hottie!
It's a Neanderthal gene.
I noticed in the movie “Dune”, all the Harkonnens were red headed.
And some of us choose to be redheads. I’m very pale Irish, blue gray eyes, w/a natural hair color of blue black. I was basically born looking Goth. In my early teens, just like most of my relatives (we were a walking group of recessive genes) I started going gray. I also started playing with hair color. I found with my natural skin/eye color warm, mid to darker reds work the best. LOreal 6R covers my grays really well. I call it better living thru chemistry.
My favorite redhead is on the Cars Candy-O album cover.
She should have seen the scene in True Romance where Dennis Hopper laid out the heritage of Sicilians to Sicilian mobster Christopher Walken.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svnsF5OLbI