Much ado about something

[dreamer_easy]

Tesco apologises over 'ginger jibe' Christmas card

Dating in the Dark's ginger-bashing ad banned

Schoolboy bullied over ginger hair hanged himself

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

In an American context, it seems to me the cliche' is that red-haired women are particularly hot/attractive, and red-haired boys particularly cherubic/all-American. I wonder if in an English context it's coded anti-Irish/Celt hatred trying to disguise itself now that open racism is a little less popular.

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

I don't know about 'all-American', being an Aussie, but I'd agree with that.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

In an American context, it seems to me the cliché is that red-haired women are particularly hot/attractive, and red-haired boys particularly cherubic/all-American.

Compare this with a line that I first heard in one of Brett Butler's stand-up routines: "I will slap you like a red-headed step child!" There seems to be some doublethink going on there.