This email kind of knocked me for a loop:

Dear Jonah –
I have nothing but respect for you, but if you think that people like me find it funny that people like me and my children have no future on this planet, you are very much mistaken. How would you like it if someone posted that and replace whatever prominent ethnic characteristic YOU have and then pronounced themselves gratified at its disappearance from this world?
A confused fan,

Me: Golly. I obviously meant no offense. But this still strikes me a bit thin-skinned. I actually don’t consider redheadedness to be the hallmark of a single ethnic group (I’ve know plenty of redheaded Jews, for example. And that Iraqi guy who looked like Groundskeeper Willy was a redhead too). But most of all, I don’t believe the study is true.

This email was more like it:

Tell it to Mark Steyn, Jonah.
My wife & I both come from a long line of redheads who are reproducing and
one day we’ll take over.
You non-redheads are all doomed.

Me: There’s the fighting spirit we sweepingly over-generalizers are looking for!