Redheads will not go extinct

[virginiadare]

In response to concerns that red hair will become extinct, I want to be the first to reassure you that this will not come to pass.

Are there ethical issues with altering the DNA of your child to have red hair?
Are there advantages to being redheaded?

Discuss amongst yourself.

Comments

[eris_devotee]

Oh my. Julia's hair, at birth, was bright red. And she's got it on both sides (my natural color is dark, erm, pink -- red without any gold... I add the gold in artifically).

at least I did my part... hehe...

[discopete1]

I ran into a brunette couple with a red-headed baby, and we traded stories about how everyone asks where the red-hair comes from. I'm always tempted to say something disturbing, like "A Harvard Co-ed who answered our ads", "My gonads, her ovaries," but we typically say "Deep in the gene pool. Two of our grandfathers were nick-named 'Red'."

Which, of course, begs the question of how something like this will disappear. The proverbial 'red-headed step child', suggests that red hair will keep cropping up, provided those step children aren't beaten.

[glowbelly]

i just red (that typo stays) a book that had a theory that red-heads were descendants from an alien species that came to earth to build the pyramids.

i wanna believe!

[daphne1d]

Good! I would be so upset if redheads became extinct! :(