[ SECRET POST #3541 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3541 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Myths that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

-Premodern people had a life expectancy of 30. No, being 30 a thousand years ago didn't make you an old man, those statistics are accounting for child mortality rate. It was perfectly common for medieval people (or earlier) to live well into their 80s.
-Premodern people thought the earth was flat. Well, I suppose some did, but from the Greeks scholars at least in Europe understood the earth to be round
-Blood is blue before it spills. uh no.
-Anything about "left-brained" and "right-brained" correlating with dominant hands and artistic/logic abilities
-You only use 10% of your brain
-Redheads are going extinct. that's not how recessive genes work...

Re: Myths that annoy you

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry the Second, mother of Richard the Lionhearted and the King John who got pushe dinto the Magna Carta lived to 82. There's a famous long life.

We may only use 10% of our brains to think with, but the rest is being used to run our bodies.

If I understand the very basics of recessive genes, in theory, females are recessive. I truly don't believe we will lose red hair, unless the whole of White People bred with non-whites and buried the red gene under dominant brown hair genes.

Basically, I agree those myths are silly.

Re: Myths that annoy you

[(Anonymous)]

About the genes, Whites having children with non-Whites wouldn't have much to do with it, because redheadedness is a recessive gene even among "white" hair colors. Recessive genes can still be "passed" to kids, and kids will be carriers, even if another gene dominates. So a biracial kid might be a "redhead" carrier, and their kids might be carriers, too - or have red hair.

The only way red hair could become extinct is if everyone with red hair or a "carrier" of the recessive gene did not reproduce.

Re: Myths that annoy you

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the biracial twin sisters that have pictures floating around the internet. Their mother is half-white and father white, one sister is POC while the other looks like an Irish stereotype.

The other thing that will also keep red hair from dying out is that some people will always be just a bit more attracted to their own racial type, and will marry other white, possibly red-haired people. That is a way any race will always keep some of their base type - the world will never turn into a homogeneous mid-tone.

Re: Myths that annoy you

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Also, red hair is close to home for me - my eldest brother had (past tense as he's both going bald and greying) mid-light brown hair on his head, but his beard has always been very red.

The likelihood of him having a child is low, but there are plenty of cousins on Mum's (where the red comes from) who have probably passed it on.