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LynneSin (91,365 posts) Thu Jul 17, 2014, 12:51 PMI am a blonde. I am not dumb, I am not a GOP and I have no desire to work for Faux NewsI suspect I'm not the only blonde (natural or dyed) here at DU. I know we're getting to the point that we're all trying to be politically correct and lately it starts to get tedious. But here's the thing, it gets old when we hear about constantly that it's the 'Dumb Blonde' GOP representative who is saying crazy things or the 'Dumb Blonde' on Faux News trying to use her pretty looks to distract you from the misinformation she is spewing. I mean when we criticized Michelle Bachmann no one here said 'Oooo what a dumb Brunette'. So why would we do that for that representative from North Carolina? Her dumbness has nothing to do with her hair color. It has to do with her whack choices probably overly influenced by a Church that says they follow Jesus but actually more follow Paul and the Old Testament. Her hair could be green, blue, orange, black or she could shave it all off and her statement would still be dumb. I realize that over the decades there was always this perception that 'Blondes have more fun' - back in the 40s and 50s all the top pinup gals were 'blonde' like Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lana Turner, Veronica Lake etc etc. These women were talented but usually cast as the ditsy girl in movies. Over the decade somehow the perception that blondes are dumb became a regular way of life - that it was ok to tell 'dumb blonde' jokes because aren't all blondes dumb? Maybe we're a society where we are running out of groups of people we can use as the butt of jokes. I know in my lifetime I've heard bad jokes offend just about every nationality out there but it's probably been at least the late 80s/90s when I last heard one (which is good!). Maybe some people think Dumb Blonde jokes are the last group of people that we can insult without criticism. I'm here to say otherwise! But in the end this is a fact - we blondes are not dumb. Sure I do dumbass things from time to time but it has nothing to do with my hair color. It has to do with the fact that sometimes I do dumbass things that I really didn't mean to do. So please remember this - when you insult blondes and call them 'Dumb' you are also calling Blonde DUers 'dumb' too. I think there are better ways to be critical of someone other than using tired old stereotypes.
redqueen (108,113 posts) Thu Jul 17, 2014, 12:55 PM2. I don't think it's tedious to be mindful and considerateIMO it's very easy to drop unnecessary, hurtful sayings which do nothing but reinforce stereotypes.
redqueen (108,113 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2014, 11:12 AM18. What a horrible post.Eurocentric beauty standards mean that yes, blondes are probably more successful. It's about as meaningful or worthy of celebrating as the fact that tall people tend to be more successful. If someone said those things about a brunette, she would punish them brutally. I had a brunette girlfriend before who held a lot of contempt for blondes. It didn't seem rational at all, it was probably jealousy. Do you really not see what's wrong with that?
redqueen (108,113 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2014, 11:42 AM22. Yeah but why extrapolate that to other brunettes?'If someone said that about a brunette, she would probably...'
redqueen (108,113 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2014, 11:54 AM25. SighI don't know if you're trying to be funny or what but I'm done here.
I'd never call someone dumb just because they were blonde, but you can't spell dumb without "du".
Similar to, "You can't spell 'crap' without 'rap.'"
LynneSin's featured quite a bit at the DUmpster all of a sudden.
LynneSin worrying about something she doesn't need to worry about
Well now, with the cousin being gone--only one more week, though--we have a shortage of material, and take whatever we can get.
Shouldn't a countdown be started in anticipation of this triumphant return? She's warned everyone that she ain't taking no shit from no one no how no mo'. Her alert finger is loaded, locked and on auto. All those bullies are toast.
Sure, we could have countdown here.But someone needs to look up exactly when her exile's supposed to end.
She was put on timeout on Friday, June 27 at 12:48 pm. Don't know if it's a 30, 60 or 90 day suspension.
