I don't think that you should hate being color blind. There is not inherent characteristic of color. It is all perception. Primates are the only eutherian mammal to evolve trichromatic color vision. All other mammals are essentially color blind. There are three genes that code for opsin in humans and old world primates. Opsin is the photopigment in cones that differentially responds to spectral energy. The short-wavelength (s) cone is code for on our body chromosomes and pretty much all mammals have this opsin and it is fairly invariant. There are two genes on the x-chromosome middle (m) and long-wavelength (l). There is much more variation in color vision in humans than in old world monkeys (8-11% in caucasian males). There are two ways of being color blind. A person could have two functioning cones (M and L) on the x-chromosome but mutations have occurred that cause their spectral sensitivity peaks to shift so that they are closer together. Therefore, light that differs spectrally sends the same signal to the brain and is "perceived" as the same color. The distance between the two peaks can explain the variation in color perception for some of the people commenting. Another way is to have a mutation in one of the cones that makes the cone non-functional or have the exact same cone at both genes due to meiotic crossing over on the x-chromosome. Males only have one X so if there is a mistake in one gene there is not another x to rescue. THere is also a large amount of variation in female L cones. Therefore, a female with two different L opsin genes on each x-chromosome could possibly have a better ability telling different shades of red and pink apart. So should a color normal female HATE being normal instead of being a super red seeing female because their world must be different or "more beautiful"? It is only perception. Color normals have no idea how you see the world. BTW, one of the possible hypothesis as to why so much variation is maintained for a long period could be because there are times when dichromats (color blind individuals) do better than color normals.
It is all perception...
I don't think that you should hate being color blind. There is not inherent characteristic of color. It is all perception. Primates are the only eutherian mammal to evolve trichromatic color vision. All other mammals are essentially color blind. There are three genes that code for opsin in humans and old world primates. Opsin is the photopigment in cones that differentially responds to spectral energy. The short-wavelength (s) cone is code for on our body chromosomes and pretty much all mammals have this opsin and it is fairly invariant. There are two genes on the x-chromosome middle (m) and long-wavelength (l). There is much more variation in color vision in humans than in old world monkeys (8-11% in caucasian males). There are two ways of being color blind. A person could have two functioning cones (M and L) on the x-chromosome but mutations have occurred that cause their spectral sensitivity peaks to shift so that they are closer together. Therefore, light that differs spectrally sends the same signal to the brain and is "perceived" as the same color. The distance between the two peaks can explain the variation in color perception for some of the people commenting. Another way is to have a mutation in one of the cones that makes the cone non-functional or have the exact same cone at both genes due to meiotic crossing over on the x-chromosome. Males only have one X so if there is a mistake in one gene there is not another x to rescue. THere is also a large amount of variation in female L cones. Therefore, a female with two different L opsin genes on each x-chromosome could possibly have a better ability telling different shades of red and pink apart. So should a color normal female HATE being normal instead of being a super red seeing female because their world must be different or "more beautiful"? It is only perception. Color normals have no idea how you see the world. BTW, one of the possible hypothesis as to why so much variation is maintained for a long period could be because there are times when dichromats (color blind individuals) do better than color normals.