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Redhead Discrimination

While this topic has been alive for years with the help of South Park's infamous episode and a fiery YouTube confession, the world's largest fertility clinic in Denmark recently added more fuel to the fire. Cyros made a public rejection of redhead genes due to limited demand to the already sufficient (if not excessive) supply.

Now even more controversy exists at the root of the growing 'ginger' movement. Underneath the vast material for jokes, commentating and teasing lie questions of discrimination and the actual scientific threat to redheads.

Learn more about it through pop culture videos, links, scientific articles and news coverage below...

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Learn more about all things ginger by devouring these commentaries, reports and opinions.

Urban Dictionary: Various (offensive and defensive) definitions of 'ginger'.
Digital Journal: The concise history of the founding and evolution of the redhead gene.
BBC News: A BBC writer outlines why jokes surrounding gingers is offensive, particularly when other similar ethnic and gender jokes are politically incorrect.
Gingerism blog: Another peek into redhead discrimination and efforts against it.
The Washington Post: A review as to just how offensive this fertility clinic rejection really is.

The Minds Behind Gingervitis

Listen as the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, explain the brainstorm behind their infamous ginger episode.

Redhead Genes Rejected

Newsy fuses different news and bloggers' reactions to Cyros' temporary ban on redhead genes.

Just Fiction?

Does science actually back up this 50 year claim, or is it just a provocative myth...

Abbreviated, yet scientific details from "Redhead and Proud" and "The Sunday Times":

-Globalization and migration are the key factors as to why different races are mixing and inter-marrying at a rate never seen before.

-The proportion of redheads to the rest of the world's population stands at about 1% - 2%, except in Ireland and Scotland where it is up to 8%.
And unfortunately this portion of redheads has significantly declined over the past 50 years.

-The reason behind why humans evolved red hair is one of the mysteries of human evolution. Red hair only appeared once humans settled in Europe (approximately 20,000 years ago). Compare that to when humans evolved in Africa 1-2 million years ago... and you got a case carved out for Sherlock.

-The genetics of red hair is complicated, to say the least. One of the genes for hair color has 40 variants , and only about SIX cause red hair. Children must inherit at least two of these genes (one from each parent) to have red hair.

-Scotland demonstrates how some communities have more redheads than others. Communities that are stable, rural and have a common ancestry tend to spread and pass-on similar genes from generation to generation (that is not to be confused with incestuous relations, by the way).

From The Sunday Times : 16.11.03. Article by Jonathan Leake , Science Editor.