I think my initial objection to the article was that I felt like it said men were strong and silent, and women were emotional dramaqueens, and while some women are dramatic and pathetically cliquey (like my "friends" from freshman year), it reminds me of the evangelical show on Godly marriage (where the phrase "we do not fault colors for being different" comes from) - he speaks blue and she speaks pink and that's why they're unhappy.
Dude, I influence your opinion too much. I suppose it is hard for blondes because everyone else hates them because they supposedly get all the attention. I think it's not even that they get attention in real life, but that they get attention in fantasy life, in TV and movies. So you're right, it is more about the way Hollywood always (used to, I think this is changing now) casts the good girl as the blonde and the bad girl as the brunette. I think it's sort of an extension of the white man's burden to be honest, not that blonde girls have the same power as the white man, but that's the kind of power they're perceived to have by the other girls, who are basically taught to be jealous and resentful whether or not that's rational.
I mean, before I ever met a blonde I had read Little House in the Big Woods, where brunette Laura is jealous because everybody says Mary's (blonde) hair is so beautiful, and Mary rubs it in her face, so she... pulls Mary's hair or something? She acts out, and her father punishes her, then tells her not to feel bad because he likes brown hair better - he has brown hair. And I immediately identified with Laura, of course, even though I had never personally experienced anything like this, given I was still in Jakarta.
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Dude, I influence your opinion too much. I suppose it is hard for blondes because everyone else hates them because they supposedly get all the attention. I think it's not even that they get attention in real life, but that they get attention in fantasy life, in TV and movies. So you're right, it is more about the way Hollywood always (used to, I think this is changing now) casts the good girl as the blonde and the bad girl as the brunette. I think it's sort of an extension of the white man's burden to be honest, not that blonde girls have the same power as the white man, but that's the kind of power they're perceived to have by the other girls, who are basically taught to be jealous and resentful whether or not that's rational.
I mean, before I ever met a blonde I had read Little House in the Big Woods, where brunette Laura is jealous because everybody says Mary's (blonde) hair is so beautiful, and Mary rubs it in her face, so she... pulls Mary's hair or something? She acts out, and her father punishes her, then tells her not to feel bad because he likes brown hair better - he has brown hair. And I immediately identified with Laura, of course, even though I had never personally experienced anything like this, given I was still in Jakarta.