More Bad /Good News for Redheads

OMG. This is awesome. Now I know why when I go to the dentist I have to pretend I'm a member of the French Resistance being tortured by the Gestapo. So I can try to be really brave....and not scream too LOUDLY.

It's not because I'm cowardly eh? It's just because I'm redly.

A growing body of research shows that people with red hair need larger doses of anesthesia and often are resistant to local pain blockers like Novocaine. As a result, redheads tend to be particularly nervous about dental procedures and are twice as likely to avoid going to the dentist as people with other hair colors....

Gawd. Can you believe that? As if we didn't suffer enough.

Oh well. At least now they can't call us cowards as well as carrots. And I know what I'm going to tell my dentist the next time I don't miss an appointment.

Hey Doc...you know how I'm ALWAYS saying hit me with your best shot? And you NEVER do?

Well this time I REALLY mean it. Long live the French Resistance and the oppressed redheads of the world !!!

Down with the Gestapo bullies...

When the Bullies Go After Redheads

I must admit that I found this story really disturbing.

Not just because it happened in the middle of Bullying Awareness Week. And so many kids took part.

Nearly 5,000 people joined the online campaign which urged members to "get them steel toes ready" for a day of booting this week.

Or because as a gay guy I know what it's like to be attacked just for who you are. But also because I'm a redhead too !!!!

Not as red as Anne of Green Gables or this little fella.















But enough to stick out in a crowd, and when I was a kid to be called carrot head and other names enough times to wish I wasn't.

Which is absurd of course because redheads are not just GORGEOUS, we are practically an endangered species.

Although luckily for the world, rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Still it does make you wonder how easy it was to get thousands of kids to sign up to beat up others kids just for how they look. And what kind of nasty gene is buried deep inside all humans.... that can lead to that kind of bullying and this kind of horror.

Buyers from as far away as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda believe the legs, genitals, eyes and hair of people with albinism can help them achieve instant wealth. The youngest victim so far was seven months old.

It's too ugly and awful. And why I believe that the most important thing you can teach a child is not just to tolerate differences and respect them, but CELEBRATE them as well.

I mean really, wouldn't it be a horribly boring world if we all looked the same?

So I say hurray for the redheads, and the blondes, and those with black, white or curly hair. Or those with no hair at all.

Hurray for the albinos, and all the other colours of the world. Hurray for short people and tall ones and thin ones and big ones.

Vive la difference !!!!

Bullies take a hike eh?

Aren't we all BEAUTIFUL?