Blonde = dumb.
Oh, joy. My life is complete.
It is so refreshing to walk into a room and people instantly assume I'm clueless, ditsy, and gullible just because of my hair color! <----Sarcasm
What I don't understand is the fact that the color "blonde", is the most popular hair dye color in the world.
Why is that?
Why would a woman want to dye her lovely, natural hair, the color that is associated with stupidity?
Is it because they consider that hair color, attractive?
If so, that's just ridiculous, because if you're pretty, you're pretty, no matter what your hair color is.
You can be extremely unattractive and no hair dye will change what the rest of you looks like.
The point of this post, is to fight against the annoying increase of stereotyping blondes.
Well... that, and I sort of have something called "writer's block".
Go figure.
I may be gullible and just plain stupid, but if I am, please refrain from blaming it on my hair color.
So, there are two main categories blondes are placed in (thank you, Hollywood... -_-):
1. The Jerk- Almost every teen girl movie out there, has the mean girl as a beautiful, popular, egotistal, self absorbent blonde. A sociopath of sorts. She always has the best looking boyfriends, and a little clique of clingy friends. She's typically a cheerleader or prom queen (if not both), and is the ultimate girly girl, obsessed with the color pink, carrying a puppy around in her purse, and bedazzling her name on her towels. She is rude, thoughtless of others, and just plain horrid.
2. The Naive Simpleton- This blonde, is the girl who is constantly not understanding the jokes, or who is zoned out during the most important times. She laughs at everything, even if she doesn't know why, and is the slowest to understand even the most uncomplicated things. This, is the most well-known blonde stereotype, thanks to blonde actress Marilyn Monroe who made popular the trend, by portraying her characters as stupid and dimwitted.
3. The Bombshell- I believe this one speaks for itself. The bombshell blonde is literally the "perfect" woman (at least, in the eyes of the media). She is gorgeous, confident, and always has a trail of men following behind her. She is a major flirt, and uses her beauty to get what she wants.
Apparently, Hollywood left out an important "type", in their defining blonde females.
They forgot that blondes can be normal.
Blondes can be just as intelligent, if not more so, than brunettes, redheads, or any other hair color!
16 year old Lauren Marbe from the UK, scored 161 on a MENSA test, which would rank her intelligence higher than Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Albert Einstein!
You go, Lauren! *cheers*
In summary, this post was a bit of a rant for me, that I've been storing inside my mind for a good long while.
Next time you feel tempted to tease a blonde about her intelligence, specifically because of her hair color, remember that she has feelings, and that it's not always fun to be thought of as "the dumb one"
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