Why are blonds considered dumb?

Question

I don't get why! Maybe the MTV retards, but just normal blonds aren't! For all those people who think blonds are dumb- you should see our school and see who is dumb then!

Answer 1

My 18-year-old daughter is a natural blond and she isn't the least bit dumb.

Answer 2

This cultural stereotype has been around for only about 150 years, but got a real push along when Marilyn Monroe starred in a 1850s movie of the 1920s novel "Gentlemen Love Blondes".

The novel is a witty story which uses comedy, satire and great storytelling to portray the America of the era, and along the way show very convincingly that blondes are NOT 'dumb'.

The movie missed the point a little but the media in years following missed it completely and the stereotype of so-called dumb blondes became firmly cemented in the public imagination.

In fact, blonde headed people of either gender are no more likely to be 'dumb' than anyone else.

Anyone who says otherwise is using stereotypical thinking, which reveals how ... well 'dumb' THEY are!

Cheers :-)

Answer 3

Brunettes and redheads already know the answer to this ,so what does that tell ya Blondie !

Answer 4

because most are...your question is pretty dumb also, nah...I'm just kidding.

Answer 5

Hey, I know PLENTY of smart blondes, and they're super smart. In fact, most of the smart people I know have blonde hair. And most of the dumb people I know have darker hair.

I'm a brunette, (not dumb) and i totally don't believe in the Blonde's are dumb concept because whoever made it up was probably jealous of their hair.

Answer 6

i feel for you.  it must suck living with that stereotype.  judging people by their hair color is as bad as any other type of prejudice.  anybody that does that is really the dumb one.  not you.  they're the types that make themselves feel better by pulling other people down.

and there's plenty of smart blonde chicks around to disprove it.  take that jessica simpson for instance.  she acts real stupid on tv and movies.  but it's supposed to be all an act.  i hear her iq is really up at genius level!  but she makes tons of money pretending to be stupid and reinforcing peoples stereotypes.  it's the people who buy into her act that are the dumb ones while she's the smart one getting rich off their prejudice.

and Gold digger:  did it occur to you nobody thinks you're dumb because you're blonde?  they think you're dumb because you're dumb!

Answer 7

"Like many popular-culture stereotypes, the origins of this concept are murky. The 1925 Anita Loos novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (later used as source for a film by the same name made by Howard Hawks and starring Marilyn Monroe) featured the character Lorelei Lee, a beautiful but empty-headed singer. While some look to this as the source for the concept, in fact, it might be far older.

Some have suggested that, because Caucasian babies are often born with at least a touch of blonde hair, an association has arisen tying those having fair hair with childhood and youth (and the accompanying proclivities toward naïvité and/or innocence). Also, as blonde hair is often associated with physical attractiveness and youth, some argue that those around blondes may have a tendency to admire or fawn over them, encouraging some to behave in a child-like manner (consciously or not) in order to gain attention and affection.

In Medieval Europe, the upper classes tended to be darker haired than the peasantry, likely due to the period tendency to marry within one's own class and the fact that lower class people were far more exposed to sunlight. Blonde hair was, at this time, often associated with commoners, who were ostensibly deemed less intelligent. Puritans, associating makeup and the dyeing of hair with prostitution, forbade the dyeing or bleaching of hair, creating a subtle cultural taboo on dyed hair that lasted until the 1920s in parts of North America and Europe.

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, Western class stereotypes also led to the negative view of women with dyed blonde hair (or heavy makeup) as being gold diggers, seeking the attentions of men who were already financially well-established, and who were as such likely to already be married. This may have stemmed from the observation that bleached blonde hair (considered to be eye-catching) was a popular choice for the often poor, uneducated women who relied on their looks to make a living, and was common among actresses, singers, music hall performers, burlesque dancers, chorus girls and bar maids, as well as prostitutes. As women of the time typically did not work after marriage, married women still occupying such positions were rare and almost always of the lower economic classes. One of the only ways a woman might find relief from the need to support herself through such professions was to marry, but wealthy men were likely to find that a wife who had formerly been employed in the entertainment professions would not be accepted well into higher-class social circles. The practice of men beginning affairs with attractive working women which did not culminate in marriage is associated with the previously mentioned adage that "gentlemen may prefer blondes, but they marry brunettes".

It has been suggested that the concept of the 'dumb blonde' may also stem from the idea amongst the ancient Romans and Greeks that Northern Europeans were barbarians and thus less advanced than Southern Europeans and Europeans of South Plagious, the civilizations of Old Northern Middle East and North India (old aryans-bramahns).

One interesting notion is that the Scandinavian blonde is often connected to romantic nationalism, and the stereotype of the blonde farm girl or dairy maid. In the actual romantic movement, this type crystallized in literature, mainly Synnøve Solbakken by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and the character of Solveig from Henrik Ibsen`s Peer Gynt. Although both characters are positive and even intelligent, tradition often gives them the "dumb blonde" trademark, more or less requited."

Answer 8

Of course it's foolish to judge someone by their hair colour.

Although in your case Gold Digger (above) it's something else. People think you are dumb because you write like a two-year old.

Answer 9

Well, you misspelled 'blondes', but I won't hold that against you. Even the non-blondes do this.

Answer 10

What do you call an intelligent blonde?

A golden retriever.

No offence meant, a blonde friend told me this joke.,  I think blondes look less serious and a little bit helpless - maybe it is brainwashing by the media

Answer 11

i here ya, sweethart...  i get it all the time an it makes me sick...  evry1 keeps making dumb blond jokes to me an think im DUMB jus for being blond....  u jus got to lern to no an luv urself for who u r an not let it bother u....  jus keep telling urself... i no im lots smarter than ppl think i am an i dosent matter wat they think...  there the dumb 1s for juging ppl that way...  be happy with urself...  :-)

Answer 12

Well I'm a blond, a blond guy, and there's usually a different stereotype in the media for us. Mostly we're weak, cowardly, perverted, stupid, idiots.

It's funny how these answers focus on mainly women, I guess that's another result of brainwashing by the media - that blond men don't exist.

Answer 13

Only fools think this.

Actually I tried dying my hair a natural blondish colour once and people didn't seem to treat me any differently.

Hey Mudkip, interesting stuff there :-)