With red hair being rare, a child born to non red headed parents was often assumed to be the child of an affair. Thus was treated badly, usually in the form of beatings.
A red headed strangler is a scary guy with red clown hair on the sides yet bald on top. A red headed strangler has large hands and hangs out at laundry mats. Often seen with a creepy flashlight on a hat and lots of safety pins and keys.
The act of a girl eating a grape popsicle, coating herself in Icy Hot, and then giving dome to a man taking an ice bath. For best results eat more than one popsicle.
A stepchild might be singled out for abuse. But a red-headed stepchild (who presumably looks like his or her absent birth-parent) might be abused even more because he or she is so obviously different from the other children.
Myles was the red-headstep child of the family, he was never invited to the family reunions.