Stupid Blondes

[sparklebutch]

Stupidity. It stings.

So I'm watching this horrid Israeli documentary about blondes (and why they have more fun, apparently), and several different people there, one by one, people with degrees, claim that humans like that hair colour because "there are no animals with blond hair".

The fuck?

"It doesn't exist on animals," says one.

"That colour happens only in hair, and only in human hair," says another.

"You can see a ginger cat, but there are no blond cats!" claims a third.

THE FUCK?

Off the top of my migraine-infested head, at three in the morning, I can - and did - come up with a list of at least a dozen blond/yellow/golden mammals, from dogs to monkeys, and of course quite a few felines on the way. *They* kept showing gorillas.

Words. Cannot. Describe.

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Good grief, are you SURE they weren't trying to be funny? I mean... NO BLOND ANIMALS????

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Positive. The rest of the show was just as dumb, but this caught my attention because.... well, it's a new level of lack-of-research, isn't it.

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

What??? I have seen blond dogs! What idiocy!

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

I have seen many blond/yellow animals.

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

As a blonde myself, natural, with brown eyes and dark brows, I tend to think I am not that "special", and I am in general attracted to brunettes, you know in the vein of opposites attract. There are a couple of advantages to being a blonde though - you don't get grey hairs as soon as darkhaired people, and if you do get some, the blond hair hides them better. And from a certain age on the lighter the haircolour the more youthful you tend to look. Hence a lot of women in their forties highlighting or going blonde. I have some darkhaired friends who got some grey hairs in their twenties! - mostly from stress, and they always used to tell me how lucky I was "to be spared that curse". Personally, when I go grey, I will turn myself into a redhead - because reds have more fun, hee!

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

A lot of that really bad docu was about racism and how darker people want to be blonde because OMG that'll make them feel superior.

It was part sad, and part fucking scary.

As a person with brown hair who has a partner with dark almost-black hair that has quite a few white hairs in it... I can tell you I don't really give a fuck.

PS

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

I apologuse for cursing every second.

[fledge.livejournal.com]

...

There has even been a blond gorilla. It was an albino, but the effect was certainly blond.

Clearly, degree qualifications do not prove intelligence.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

And obviously, to make a documentary you don't need even the slightest of research.

[fledge.livejournal.com]

....

It was a *documentary*??! I'd been assuming it was some stupid kind of CHAT SHOW!!!

Dear... whatever you want to call on to ask 'why, oh why, oh WHY!'

[fledge.livejournal.com]

Yes, you did say. I think I was in denial because of the STUPIDITY.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

And they kept going on about the racism angle. Which they obviously have no clue about and just like to rant.

[fledge.livejournal.com]

I don't think dark people going blond is about wanting to feel superior, it's just about having a change of hair colour! Plenty of blond people go dark, or red... That's the kind of line you'd expect from the Nazis! "Dark people are going blond, it must be because they think blonds are more superior." Fagh.

The naughty part of me wants to say it's a blond conspiracy because we all know in reality they're stupid ;)

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

IMO, if someone went blond just to feel superior because they have some sort of self hate over having dark hair... they already ARE stupid.