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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe "Ditzy Blonde" Stereotype.
I posted a "blonde" joke on Facebook yesterday and one of my blonde friends called me on it. It didn't take much editing, and voila, not a blonde joke.
Honestly, I don't know what it's like to have no one take you seriously because of the color of your hair. And as a software engineer, having to prove herself over and over must be very frustrating. So, I ask you. When you see this:
Tomi Lahren Says "Stay At Home" Orders Are Just Like Slavery
does it make you think "dumb blonde" or "ditzy blonde"... or just Dumb?
Me personally, I think "stupid, privileged, white woman with no clue of what she's saying." Her hair color doesn't even remotely register. But perhaps if you are white, you see the hair color.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)but an asshole in search of a butt hole escape. Quote, me!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)these women aren't dumb, they are liars.
2naSalit
(86,741 posts)A few minutes later the blonde thing might come around to my attention. It's the gobs of make-up I notice after listening to what they have to say... though sometimes the make-up is so loud as to be the first thing.
Crunchy Frog
(26,609 posts)mainer
(12,022 posts)Its a type.
Someone has told them that "blondes have more fun", and they see blonde women getting more male attention". That'll do it.
There is one other reason, though.
When your hair goes gray, blonde is easier to maintain when it comes to dying your hair. You can touch up the roots, you can go a bit longer between dye jobs.
And PLEASE don't ask why women feel they need to dye their hair. There is rampant stereotyping of gray-haired women as incapable, and "too old". It is harder to get a job when you are a woman with gray hair. Hair dye-ing becomes a professional necessity.
Anecdotal evidence, look in any grocery store or pharmacy right now and you will see that women's hair color is selling out. Women who are used to going to the salon are trying to color their hair at home.
LakeArenal
(28,835 posts)LessAspin
(1,156 posts)put it best.
https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2015/02/jane-curtain-takes-swipe-fox-news
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)As are Princess Ivanka, Kay-lee McInaney, many of the giggling couch tumors on FOX, etc. They're not even real blondes.
qwlauren35
(6,148 posts)I love that.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)And a few other terms having absolutely nothing to do with appearance.
sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)is from a bottle.