The sport of hating redheads is something that I am baffled by. I am a redhead by choice and my son is a redhead by birth. I happen to think my son is the most adorable thing walking around the planet (he is) and this adorableness spreads from his little boy toes to the top of his static-electricity-prone strawberry head.
I was more than a little miffed and offended to read a recent item in the number one place I obtain my news: the Us Weekly app on my phone.
The article announced the arrival of Bryce Dallas Howard’s daughter. [And, you guys! She totally named her baby after Aunt Bea from The Andy Griffith Show!] What was pearl-clutchingly annoying was that US couldn’t even choke out the announcement without taking a poo on redhead boys.
She can “finally pass on her gorgeous red hair to a child that will appreciate it”??!
What the heck? First of all, her son, the one that is supposedly walking around all NOT appreciating his locks, is four. Do you think this kid gives a rats about his hair? No. He wants to eat another cup of pudding.
So let’s get to the meat of the matter: where is this blanket assumption that redheaded boys are not to be as celebrated as redheaded girls? I know that redheaded actresses are pretty iconic. They run the spectrum from Lucy Ricardo to the modern era of Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Amy Adams and Christina Hendricks. There hasn’t exactly been a GQ spread on hubba hubba redhead men.
But allow me to remind you: Robert Redford, Spencer Tracy, Eric Stolz, Kevin McKidd, oh… and some dude named Ron Howard. Look him up, US Weekly.
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My son has bright red hair and upon learning this fact, I was STOKED. I also think he is the most adorable thing to ever walk the earth and would not change his hair color for anything. Take THAT, US Weekly.
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Amen!
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My son has red hair, and I think it is adorable. And he’s quite popular with all of the little girls in his pre-school class too. Why all the redhead hate? I wish I were a redhead…such an awesome color!
The comment sounds to me like she is saying that red hair is gorgeous, but that boys don’t care so much about their hair color, so it is wasted on them. Bryce has now had a girl, who will appreciate her beautiful hair. I did not read a slam into that at all.
My husband has red hair as well as his two siblings. I so wished one of my kids had it and was a wee bit disappointed when it was not to be. Love red headed little boys. They draw my attention. I can say that my husband said he was fussed over because of it but couldn’t have cared less about the color. US probably shouldn’t have qualified it at all and confused the matter.
I’m a natural red-head. My first two children are blonde (and gorgeous). We tried for a third child in hopes of getting a red-head and ended up with twin girls, one of whom will be strawberry blonde and one of whom got my red hair, finally! I love being a red-head and have had more than one person take a photo of me to a stylist and say, “I want THAT color.” It is my only vanity…