Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Blondes.



Although not all of the Gods exhibited the trait, blonde hair was seen as a sign of divinity in Ancient Greece. Blondes were seen as exotic and otherwordly.
Blonde hair was also commonly ascribed to the hoeroes and heroines of European fairytales. Only Snow White has adrk hair because of her Mothers wish for a child, 'as red as blood, as white as snow, as black as ebony.'

It is often stereotyped that men find blonde women more attractive than women with other hair colours. Alfred Hitchcock preferred to cast blonde women for major roles inhis films as he believed the audience would suspect them the least, hence the term, 'Hitchcock Blonde'. In the medis and in culture, blonde women are often portrayed as 'promiscuous', bacause of this, many believe that blondes, 'have more fun'.
Blonde jokes are a class of derogatory jokes based on a 'dumb blonde' stereotype of blonde woemn (or men) being unintelligent, sexually promiscuous, or both.

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