There's a terrible type of discrimination that hardly anybody covers. Individuals with red hair often get a negative reputation, for no purpose. Red head discrimination can go on, as a Danish sperm bank re-cently said that new donors were not accepted if they were red haired.



Not allowing the hair color in



Sperm donors with red hair will no longer be approved by Danish company Cryos. Cryos is known as a business that runs the world’s largest network of sperm banks, MSNBC explains. Outside of Ireland, there isn’t a lot of de-mand for red hair, Cryos says, although it has “nothing against redheads,” but it is what the individuals want in the 65 nations it serves. Also, in Scandinavian contributors the business will now only accept those who have brown eyes.



In order to help get contributors that are more in demand, the business made these policies. Whether or not there is really discrimination towards redheads needs to be considered with this.



Discrimination in Eng-land



Redheads, or “gingers,” have been discriminated for a while. This is something heard about in England all the time. In England, redhead discrimina-tion is becoming very common, as reported by a 2004 CNN article.



A book of photographs of 300 English “gingers” was put together by a photographer, according to a 2007 BBC article. She found that 298 of her subjects had experienced some sort of bullying or discrimination for their red hair, including herself. At least one red hair-related hate crime had been committed, as reported by that article.



The Telegraph reports that in 2009, English supermarket chain Tesco pulled a Christmas card that said “Santa loves all children, even ginger ones,” after complaints.



Other areas have discrimination too



In 2008, according to the Sydney Telegraph, Australian Trent Speering said in his murder-suicide message that redhead discrimination was one of the reasons he killed his mother and himself.



Seven middle school students from Calabasas, California ended up getting beaten in 2009, as reported by the LA Times. This was because “Kick A Ginger Day” was put up on Facebook. Some were assaulted multiple times by different groups of students.



One kid in Calgary, Canada was beaten by thirteen of its classmates in 2008 for his red hair, according to CBCNews. This was due to the same “Kick A Ginger Day” Facebook campaign. There were also two redheaded girls in seventh grade which were beaten by older girls.



In books



Redhead stereotypes are rife in art and novels, according to Wik-ipedia. Johnathan Swift, the Irish author, satirized stereo-types of redheads in "Gulliver's Travels." Shakespeare made his villains wear red hair wigs, ac-cording to the BBC. Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdalene and Lillith, sup-posed first wife of the biblical Adam, are often depicted as redheads.



There's a woman with red hair in Mark Twain’s short story “Warm Hair.” She is angry about all the jokes that keep being made.



Articles cited



MSNBC: [url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44579757/ns/health-pregnancy/#.Tnis8GWP-_0[/url]



CNN: [url]http://articles.cnn.com/2004-11-26/politics/princeton.redheads_1_red-haired-students-red-hair-red-day?_s=PM:EDUCATION[/url]



BBC:[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm[/url]



The Telegraph: [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6809685/Tesco-withdraws-ginger-joke-Christmas-cards.html[/url]



Sydney Telegraph: [url]http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ambos-redheads-and-a-declaration-of-murder/story-e6freuy9-1225894034176[/url]



Los Angeles Times: [url]http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/ktla-ginger-beating,0,1893029.story[/url]



CBC News: [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2008/11/21/calgary-kick-ginger-attack.html[/url]



Wikipedia: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair#Prejudice_and_discrimination_against_redheads[/url]



"Warm Hair" on Google Books: [url]http://bit.ly/mWg90y[/url]