20 Unbelievable Facts Every Ginger Person Should Know

16. People Find Redheaded Men "Unattractive," A Study Says

Marion Roach wrote a book called The Roots Of Desire in which she discusses current and historical opinions of red haired people. In her studies, she finds that many people generally view redheaded males to be inferior in a lot of ways to men with other hair colours. "The historic reaction to the red-haired man was a kind of loathing," she writes, attributing this to Shylock often being portrayed as a ginger in Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice. She also reports a 1986 study in which subjects generally described ginger men as "unattractive, less successful, and rather effeminate."