Hair racism: hawa hawatakikani

[Mwalimu-G]

Redheaded donors are being turned away at sperm bank
By Laura Bleakley
BBC News

Published21 September 2011

Lack of demand for red-haired donors in a Denmark sperm bank

Redheads might have more fun but it seems there is an overabundance of them.
That is if one goes by the view of the world's largest sperm bank, Cryos International, in Denmark.
It has announced that it is turning away red-haired donors because there is a lack of demand for their "product".
Its director, Ole Schou, has said no to all Scandinavian types, not just the redheads "because we simply have too much in our stock."
"We are overloaded with donor sperm from these groups so we have had to stop requesting them," he said.
Apparently Ireland is still one of the places requesting red-haired donors along with Denmark and Germany.

However, as many of Cryos clients are in Spain, Italy and Greece, there is a need for more brown-eyed Scandinavians, Mediterraneans and men of other ethnicities as donors.
Mr Schou said his company had already got 600 red-headed donors on a waiting list should children of this hair colour become more fashionable.
"We are very happy with redheads and what hair colour people have, but our job is to supply all races, all hair colours and all eye colours and our problem is that we are located in this part of Northern Europe," he said.
"We supply worldwide so we need more of non-typical Danish characteristics in our crops."
Award-winning writer and comedian Owen O'Neill is a proud redhead.
"I've used my ginger hair adversity throughout my life to a good-end," he said.

"If I wasn't ginger, I would have to lose at least 20 minutes of material for my act - so I'm quite happy with the jibes - it has made me who I am and I like my ginger hair."

 

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How does this apply to 99.99999999% of Kenyans??

 

[Mwalimu-G]

How does this apply to 99.99999999% of Kenyans??

Mostly nothing....But I guess it demonstrates that one can be discriminated against for nothing or for superficial things really.

 

[Mwalimu-G]

Is gingerism as bad as racism?

By Finlo Rohrer BBC News Magazine A red-haired family claims to have been driven from their Newcastle home because of abuse. Why is the harassment of redheads dismissed as just harmless fun? Here's a joke. "What's the difference between a terrorist and a redhead?" Here's the punchline. "You can negotiate with a terrorist." ​ I was on the Tube, pregnant, and I was really humiliated by this drunk yob Red-haired photographer Charlotte Rushton Is this offensive? If it was made in your workplace, within hearing of a redheaded colleague, would you make a fuss? Probably not. But mock someone's ethnicity, religion or sexuality and you will attract the beady eye of management. Make a sexist joke and prepare to be dismissed as an antediluvian relic. Verbal abuse Carrot-top, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on for hours and hours of the typical redhead's life. No wonder some gloss over their hair colour as "auburn" and "strawberry blonde" and even "titian". Photographer Charlotte Rushton has been chronicling the UK's redheads for a book, Ginger Snaps. Of the 300 she snapped, only two have been spared bullying because of their hair. She herself has suffered verbal abuse from complete strangers. ​ LEGENDARY REDHEADS King David Queen Boudicca Pharaoh Ramses II Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I Sir Winston Churchill "I was on the Tube, pregnant, and I was really humiliated by this drunk yob. He was shouting 'do the cuffs and the collars match?' He got right up into my face. You don't do that to other people." She believes the phenomenon is long-standing and uniquely British in its most virulent form. "In other countries redheads will get teased at school but it stops when they become adults. If you are a woman you are fiery and alluring, beautiful." In adult life, women get stereotyped and red-haired men take much of the worst abuse. Treatment of red-haired children in school ranges from mild taunts to grim persecution. Michele Eliot, the American director of British children's charity Kidscape, regularly has significant numbers of red-haired children in courses on coping with bullying. ​ Children face a tough time at school (Pic: Charlotte Rushton) "There is nothing like this in the US where having red hair is not a precursor to having someone abuse you. Red hair is considered glamorous." Bullies at school and in later life may sense that ill-treatment of the red-haired will not be treated as seriously by the authorities as persecution of other groups. "Bullies think that person is outside the norm, they will be able to attack them. The bullies find something to pick on. The bully has a problem and needs a victim," Ms Eliot says. Racism row While there has been at least one report of a serious anti-red hair hate crime in the UK - a 20-year-old stabbed in the back in 2003 - it's unclear whose responsibility it is to monitor discrimination. ​ RED HAIR ROOTS Caused by mutated MC1R gene Most prevalent in far northern and western Europe May have survived due to increased vitamin D production in pale-skinned 'Sexual selection' also possible Disagreement over redheads' reputed higher pain tolerance "It is certainly not us," says the Commission for Racial Equality. Conservative backbencher Patrick Mercer, when recently sacked for alleged racism, sought to get himself out of a hole by comparing treatment of black soldiers to those with red hair. "That's the way it is in the Army. If someone is slow on the assault course, you'd get people shouting: 'Come on you fat bastard, come on you ginger bastard, come on you black bastard.'" One of these three epithets would now be regarded as totally unacceptable, and possibly against the law. Even the first, mocking someone's weight, is under a sustained assault from feminists and those concerned about what society's treatment of weight issues does to vulnerable teenagers. But the abuse can be far from innocuous. "We talk about kicking racism out of sport but this is just as bad in its way," said Reading striker Dave Kitson in 2005. He can't have been delighted when the Daily Star reported his remarks under the headline "Kitson's a right ginger whinger". Or when players' association chief Gordon Taylor said: "It belittles racism to compare the two issues."

 

[Doc oga]

Black is the new red

 

[Liberty]

This has made me wonder if they accept our fellow Africans sperm donor

 

[Anglututu]

I do not support this sperm donor thing, watu waoane kama binadamu wanavyopaswa kuoana.
Hii tabia ya everyone is free to do what they feel is right for themselves ndio imetuletea shida za ajabu ajabu.
Was watching a movie yesterday, and it has become mandatory to have the alphabet people in every movie. Especially the ones targeted at young viewers.
Parents chungeni what your kids watch, what I'm I saying, it isn't possible to do that.
Raise your kids with strong morals from the start, otherwise utakuja jionea sarakasi.