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 Sperm Bank Bans RedheadsPosted on Sep 18, 2011
Cryos, an international network of sperm banks based in Denmark, is refusing donations from gingers, because, says director Ole Schou, there simply isn’t demand outside of Ireland, where red hair sells “like hot cakes.” The company is most interested in sperm from Indian donors and those with brown hair and eyes. Cryos pays men up to $500 for their semen. According to Schou, by way of the British newspaper The Telegraph, the firm has a waiting list of 600 donors and its reserves are at capacity. —PZS
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By SoTexGuy, October 1, 2011 at 9:52 am Link to this comment
Sperm and egg banks and ‘fertility’ centers, what are they about? As I mentioned earlier.. there’s no shortage of people on our earth!? So what’s the deal?
The only answer that comes to mind is eugenics.. That’s the science/religion of producing the next generation as the superior, dominant, or super race. The Nazis failed at it, even with the help of the Rockefellers and half the universities
in California.. now it’s done on the sly through marketing it as a ‘service’.
We’ll ‘help you’ have children.. stronger, healthier, taller, more athletic (mostly more white) children…
This article that suggests uber-white red head sperm is losing demand is notable only because it may suggest a new ideal.. less focused on the Nazi Aryan model.
Adios!
Report thisBy Bruce, September 30, 2011 at 9:15 pm Link to this comment
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They say sperm from blondes and reds are in less demand and they are no longer accepting them. But somehow I don’t believe that is 100% the case, if it is even the case at all. I think someone has a morbid dislike for such outstanding people and wants to gradually weed them out.(PLANNED GENOCIDE)If they announced they were no longer accepting semin from say blacks etc, all hell would break loose, there would be a hell of an uproar. Talk about racism being a complete one way street.
Report thisBy Karon Reiter, September 20, 2011 at 7:37 pm Link to this comment
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I don’t think having brown eyes - big Mediterranean brown eyes and hair or dark Spanish eyes and hair or beautiful big Italian eyes is drab at all. Or anyone who is dark and exotic, particularly Asians. One can say that about washed out blondes that you see constantly as the pinnacle of beauty in western culture. If any group is tribal, it’s the fair haired blue eyed lot who have discriminated and caused genocide against those dark eyed, dark haired people that don’t look like them. I think there’s way more diversity among brown eyed people who cover a far more varied range of ethnicities than the small pocket of northern European ancestry.
Report thisBy nat, September 20, 2011 at 3:43 pm Link to this comment
i guess people just want to be around (or produce) people that look like
Report thisthemselves….hence the dark hair/ dark eyes requests from the Mediterranean
countries they mentioned….....shame as red-heads can be strikingly beautiful.
By SoTexGuy, September 20, 2011 at 3:02 am Link to this comment
I don’t read the article as any warning of an end to red headed people.. maybe the title to the article is a little sensational.. as was noted.
The real shocker in all of this is that in a world overflowing with the Human species.. a world already driven to war over resources, ravaged by mass-extinctions and an increasingly hostile climate .. in this sea of humanity we find need to make sure everyone can procreate? It’s nonsense.
Adopt.. or get a dog (from the animal shelter).
Adios!
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, September 20, 2011 at 1:50 am Link to this comment
Anti-semanism.
Report thisBy Blueboy1938, September 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm Link to this comment
This is a very invidious and insidious policy. If they only want brown eyed,
black haired donors, they will be contributing to the demise of fair-skinned
blonds with blue eyes and, yes, red-heads, which are already at a disadvantage
because the genes for those traits are recessive. I read some time ago that
red-heads will become extinct by - I think it was - the end of this century.
Sounded pretty unlikely until the news items about ginger-abuse and now this.
There apparently is an active hostility towards red-headedness that strikes me
as some visceral tribalism and antipathy toward “The Other” that is disturbing.
Ah, yes. After a brief Google of “red-head extinction” I confirmed that there
Report thiswas a National Geographic article in mid-2007 which posited the extinction as
anywhere from 2060 to 2100. That’s not very far off. They must have factored
in that red-heads are more prone to skin cancer, which is increasingly epidemic
with the advent of the ozone hole(s). What a numbing tragedy to consider: The
homogenization of the human race into uniformly black-haired, brown-eyed
drabness:-(
By JMD, September 19, 2011 at 11:53 am Link to this comment
Look on the bright side of this for being a redhead -
Report thisconsidering marriage.They stand a good chance of
knowing that they are not related!
The rest of society - ?
Thanking you for this opportunity to comment -
James M. de Laurier 9/19/2011
By sickofallthesnooki, September 18, 2011 at 3:22 pm Link to this comment
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Nice sensationalist headline. They’re not accepting sperm from redheads because
Report thisthere’s no demand for it outside of one country. Sheesh.