Skip to comments.
Why are some men drawn to redheads?
CNN ^
| September 15, 2009
| John Devore
Posted on 09/16/2009 2:24:10 AM PDT by Daffynition
A reader wrote in asking me why most men are "fascinated" with redheads. In this instance, I think "fascinated" is a nice way of saying "obsessed." She admitted to being a redhead, and, therefore, the object of such ardor. Columnist suggests attraction to redheads may be because they are a genetic rarity.
She's asked these men why they are so drawn to the crimson-haired, and the best she ever got out of them was "Redheads iz just hawt, yo!" This is true, but it is not the whole truth.
I wouldn't say most men love redheads. A sizable majority, sure. And those men who love redheads likely focus on them because of their genetic rarity. The universe makes only so many redheads, and so it makes an impression when a man is beauty-napalmed by one.
I have had a lifelong attraction to redheads: their alabaster skin, constellations of freckles, and combustible temperaments. This is an aberrant preoccupation.
Hair color is neither a dealmaker nor dealbreaker. I've probably dated 50 percent brunettes, 50 percent blonds. I love both, and I've never encountered the usual stereotypes affixed to their hair tones.
The blonds I've dated have never been stupid or vapid. In fact, many have been bookish and wickedly funny. Likewise, my brunette girlfriends have defied the standard definitions.
In my experience, blonds don't have any more fun than brunettes. The women who have the most fun are those women who give themselves permission to have fun.
So, how do I explain a personal craving for flame brains? I could blame biology, how it makes a certain evolutionary logic that Man would pursue those women who, by virtue of a few mutated chromosomes, stand out from the crowd.
[snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beauty; crazy; gingerkids; gingerphilia; gingerphobia; gingervitis; males; redheads
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 101-117 next last
For those who yearn for pictures:
To: Daffynition
another fine example of msm reporting. that said,
2
posted on
09/16/2009 2:33:59 AM PDT
by
robomatik
To: Daffynition
Blondes and/or brunettes ... pushed him a little too far? :)
3
posted on
09/16/2009 2:34:16 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: Daffynition
4
posted on
09/16/2009 2:34:41 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(So many Communists, so little time.)
To: robomatik; fieldmarshaldj
Is that Lindsay “Firecrotch” Lohan, or do my eyes deceive me?
5
posted on
09/16/2009 2:35:24 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(So many Communists, so little time.)
To: Daffynition
6
posted on
09/16/2009 2:37:22 AM PDT
by
Always Right
(Equal Opportunity Hater....)
To: rabscuttle385
Is that Lindsay Firecrotch Lohan, or do my eyes deceive me? It is hard to recognize her unless they show her lower half.
7
posted on
09/16/2009 2:38:46 AM PDT
by
Always Right
(Equal Opportunity Hater....)
To: Daffynition
Oh no! Not the gingers!!! LOL
Just kidding. I’m a ginger myself! LOL
8
posted on
09/16/2009 2:39:02 AM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: rabscuttle385
dang it... you beat me to it. :)
9
posted on
09/16/2009 2:39:29 AM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: Daffynition
Red Headed Woman Lyrics
Well, brunettes are fine, man
Blondes are fun
But, when it comes to getting the dirty job done,
I'll take a red-headed woman, a red-headed woman.
It takes a red-headed woman to get a dirty job done.
10
posted on
09/16/2009 2:41:27 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: rabscuttle385
i believe it IS lidsay lohan. sorry. i googled “redheads” and that was the first acceptable picture i stumbled across.
To: Daffynition
Because they are so cute. And some other characteristics.
I know; one let’s me live here.
12
posted on
09/16/2009 2:43:37 AM PDT
by
doodad
To: Daffynition
CNN finds this much more news worthy than the itsy bitsy ACORN multi-billion, multi-state, Obama up to his eye-balls, ACORN scandal. go figure.
13
posted on
09/16/2009 2:44:14 AM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(There is no "O" in Transparency.)
To: robomatik
It’s okay.
She was a lot cuter in The Parent Trap...before she got corrupted.
[I can say that since she and I are in the same age range.]
14
posted on
09/16/2009 2:44:21 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(So many Communists, so little time.)
To: Daffynition
15
posted on
09/16/2009 2:45:37 AM PDT
by
iowamark
(certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
To: rabscuttle385
Ginger kids, day walkers...lol. Great episode.
16
posted on
09/16/2009 2:50:41 AM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
To: Daffynition
To: Daffynition
Great article. I can understand as after growing up in a town that had not a single black family residing in it I found myself completely smitten with black girls in college. I find all manner of women attractive and have had relationships with Latinas (you have to have a bit of courage to seriously date one of those), Whites (too bland for my taste, like salt free crackers. Salt free crackers, what is the point of such a thing), and Asians (I got tired of making myself out to be a bigger and bigger ass to see if I could get a rise out of them), but my eye always drifted to the ladies of the darker persuasion.
I do not know why I pursued them so vigorously. I chased one with almost stalker like persistence and finally won her heart and married her. Sometimes I wonder why I did not see all of the drama, emotions, and vaguely marked buttons and unmarked minefields coming. Thing is, I saw the vaguely marked buttons before I started pushing them. I knew the unmarked minefields were there before I started walking across them. One look into the light colored eyes of my cornrowed Nubian princess made it worth it. Would I do the same for any other woman? Of course I would...If she was Black!
18
posted on
09/16/2009 2:53:19 AM PDT
by
Bad Jack Bauer
(Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
To: Always Right
Wow!.....in my mind I’m going to Carolina.
19
posted on
09/16/2009 2:53:26 AM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
To: TheArizona
Why doesn't this apply as well to red-headed males?
I think they should equal billing!
20
posted on
09/16/2009 2:54:47 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(If you believe you can tell me what to think, I believe I can tell you where to go.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80 ... 101-117 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson