Who came up with this quote....?

Question

"...beat you like a redheaded stpe-child" i think it sucks...who came up with that B.S.?

Answer 1

remember hearing it in a movie.... my neighbor loved it - he often used it - not the beating part but.... when he introduced himself to me after discussing me and where i was from - i'm a red-headed step child from alabama.... we laughed. i think the movie was deliverance.

"Red-headed stepchild" means an adulterine bastard. That is, a married woman has a child by someone other than her husband; if nobody in her or her husband's family has red hair, and she produces a child with red hair, then the presumption is that her lover is redheaded or has red hair in his background.

Under common law, her husband is the LEGAL father of the child and is obligated to support him/her. It is not inconcievable that the man might resent the presence of the child for all sorts of reasons--being obligated to support a child not his own; the child being a continuing daily reminder of the wife's infidelity; etc.--and might take it out on the child to a greater or lesser extent.

step child used to not be as common as it is today.

the color red also denoted sin back in the early days and thus evil men were often depicted with red hair - cain judas, etc.

Answer 2

Not sure of the origin of this phrase. I first heard it from an Irish friend. I assume it comes from the English looking down on the Irish and Scottish.

Similar to saying "I'll beat you like a rented mule".

Answer 3

I think you just did.

Whats a stpe-child anyway?

Answer 4

i agree its stupid....it was probably someone who hated there step hid with red hair

Answer 5

That sounds made up.

Answer 6

is not as bad as , I will beat you like an unwanted jewish boy in a Nazi foster home ...........