20 Unbelievable Facts Every Ginger Person Should Know

12. No Love For Gingers In The Media

Gingers have been hated on in the media throughout history, in all kinds of cultures, time periods, in all kinds of ways. As mentioned before, Shakespeare's Shylock from The Merchant Of Venice is one of the most reviled characters in the history of literature, and he was often played by actors with red wigs when the show was performed on stage. Dickens also took a stab at gingers in Oliver Twist by making the criminal Fagan a redhead, and he also created the unlikeable Uriah, a redhead from David Copperfield. Additionally, the loud, drunken, ugly, obscene, and cuckolded Miller from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was described as having bright red hair like a fox, and J.D. Salinger referenced the angry redhead stereotype in The Catcher in the Rye, writing "People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily." The main character in Gulliver's Travels stated "It is observed that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest," and Jack from Lord of the Flies is another example of a redhead vilified in literature. It's not limited to literature though: gingers are vilified in A Christmas Story, Billy Madison, Hot Fuzz, Back To The Future, Air Bud, and we teach our kids to mistrust gingers in Air Bud and First Kid.