Ginger
A recent conversation has started me thinking.
Two things:
1. Why do brunettes get let off the hook when it comes to attributing negative traits to hair colour?
2. Are there ANY cool ginger people in the world?
Let's take the two questions in turn.
1. Blondes - stereotypically promiscuous and lacking in intelligence. Redheads - fiery or worth nothing more than being put down at birth. Brunettes? erm...erm...nothing. So I think it is about time those of us blessed with less mundaine hair colours got our own back. Most blondes are treated with humour or derision, redheads with fear or ridicule. So from now on if you see an afflicted brunette, ignore them I say. From now on their hair colour determines that they have no personality, nothing to make them exceptional at all. Boring browns :) Take the power back ;)
2. Thinking about redheads. Are there any that are cool? Who springs to mind first? This one? or perhaps this one? See. It isnt easy to think of one is it? We have been trying to compile a list. So far the obvious candidates of Evans and Ronald McDonald have been ruled out. The first for obvious reasons, the second as his is fake - no it is true it is a wig really! ;)
So far my list consists of:
Gene Wilder - Just for a great Willy Wonka and 'The Producers'
Thom Yorke - A tinge of ginger in there and a genuis
That's it so far. Any ideas on a top five gingers?
Comments
... How about Cate Blanchett? Or Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo? Or even Beaker from The Muppet Show?
Is Fredrik Ljungberg a ginger? Looks like one to me! (Surprised he isn't on your list!!!)
And then there's the actress Lauren Ambrose, from Six Feet Under; or Gillian Anderson from the X-Files; Megan Mullally who plays the fabulous Karen Walker in Will & Grace; and the late Charlotte Coleman...
Singer Leigh Nash (Sixpence None The Richer) could be on there, as could Sarah McLachlan; Tori Amos; Van Morrison; Kirsty MacColl; Shirley Manson and Antonio Vivaldi!
An 'Anti' list might include Judas Iscariot; General Custer; Napoleon Boneparte; Mick Hucknall and Henry VIII...
... Although some of these may be fakes...
Posted by: Long-haired Poet | March 1, 2005 8:54 AM
Hrm. I don't think Freddie is a ginger.
I would consider taking Cate Blanchett from that list, along with Charlotte Coleman of course.
I have also considered Charles Kennedy and Henry VIII :)
Certianly not Fizz from Corrie, Anne Robinson or Charlie Dimmock though.
http://www.redandproud.com/famous%20redheads.htm
Thanks Nik for the link :)
Posted by: Kary | March 1, 2005 9:41 PM
..then there is Kirsty MacColl... and Belinda Carlisle!
Posted by: Kary | March 1, 2005 9:45 PM
... Maybe not Belinda Carlisle? She sings in the same way that Captain Janeway talks (from Star Trek Voyager); as if she is gargling a glass of water, through her nose, whilst sitting on a vibrating bed...
Posted by: Long-haired Poet | March 1, 2005 10:26 PM
True.
Posted by: Kary | March 1, 2005 10:41 PM
Being ginger is no disability or issue worth worrying about. Us gingers possess a natural energy that other people fear, and therefore outcast or joke about to cover up there own insecurity. I know lots of other gingers and we are generally the coolest people I know. Blondes are generally stupid and brunettes are militant lesbians or as earlier mentionned, just plain boring. Don't forget Yosemite Sam
Posted by: Higgles | April 27, 2005 11:53 AM
... There's also Louise Rhodes from Lamb and Beth Gibbons from Portishead; (before she defected and became a blonde) there was Lindsay Lohan; and the ever talented Julianne Moore. Not forgetting Sassette from the Smurfs, Jessica Rabbit, Wilma Flintstone and Dexter from 'Dexter's Laboratory'. All cool.
Posted by: Long-haired poet | January 16, 2006 3:11 PM