Perhaps Jonathan Swift really has thought of everything to write a satire about. This is about the Yahoos, or primeval antithetical to the Houyhnhnms who are a race of horses who live the Vulcan way. Read: "It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity." Sounds about right. Gulliver references the old Fire again with reference to a Yahoo who developed a violent crush on him. "neither was the hair of this brute of a red color (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular)." What did people think of red heads back then? Sure there's the whole Viking thing, but that was passé by the time Gulliver's Travels was written. I don't currently feel persecuted for my read hair, but perhaps me red haired brethren experienced major hardships and persecutions in the 18th century. I should start a society.
Picture: Red Hair In Red Land, Zion National Park in 200Past.
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