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Why are redheads so crazy?

My brother is in love with redheads but most are insane. What causes this phenomenon? Is there an antidote?

Update:

about the stereotype thing, look just because something is a stereotype, does not mean it is false. I have met quite a few redheads in my life and every single one that I can remember that I got somewhat close to were insane. I am sure one or two redheads are not crazy, just as I am sure one or two black people don't have curly hair.

Update 2:

Oh yeah, one more thing, this does not mean I think people with other hair colors are normal. And being that hair color is genetic and so is behavior, it is quite reasonable to believe that hair color is linked to behavior.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    WE ARE NOT CRAZY

    YOU TAKE THAT BACK

    TAKE IT BACK

    TAKE IT BACAACAKCCK

    No, really. We're not. I can be a little hot headed, but to be honest, everybody has a character flaw of some sorts.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Crazy Redheads

  • 1 decade ago

    Just because two things share one similiarity (hair + behavior both share the fact they're somewhat genetic, for example) doesn't mean that the correlation is valid. So until there's scientific proof, redheads are neither more or less insane than blondes or brunettes! O:-)

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Crazy Red Heads

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    RE:

    Why are redheads so crazy?

    My brother is in love with redheads but most are insane. What causes this phenomenon? Is there an antidote?

  • 1 decade ago

    I think you're just meeting the wrong redheads ;)

    We all aren't crazy. But I think the notion that all redheads are crazy goes back to the idea that redheads = Irish (which isn't always true by the way). And when Irish women get mad - boy we get mad! I happen to have Irish blood in me and I am a redhead. My husband always tells me when I get really mad (not just mad but steaming mad) that my Irish temper comes tearing out! To him that's kinda scary so he makes sure not to get me that mad (he'll stop short of it if we're arguing about something).

    But it doesn't mean all redheads are like that. And just because we Irish redheads get really mad like that, it doesn't mean we're crazy either. Just a little hot tempered.

    I don't believe someone's hair color determine's if they're crazy, I've met blonde's, brunettes, and jet black haired men and women who are a bit off their rocker - so it's not a person's haircolor. It's their brain chemistry. In fact, my husband's birth mother is so crazy (a brunette) she is certifiably nuts but it's because of her brain, not the pigment of her hair follicles.

  • Tom K
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Mark Twain said that "While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats".

    No, they are totally hopeless.

    P.S. I married one.

  • 1 decade ago

    They are called Gingers*. They are not insane. They just seem like it! LOL! Gotta love 'em!

    * Ode to Matt and Trey

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    5 years ago

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    Sounds like Ed from Cowboy Bebop.

  • TAP
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    My m-i-l and b-i-l are both redheads and both are very calm and mild people. So, there.

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