I am a blonde. I am not dumb, I am not a GOP and I have no desire to work for Faux News
I 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.
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One day a blonde woman came into a New York bank and asked for a short term loan for $5000 on her Jaguar. The loan officer checked into her credit, which was excellent, and into the title of the car, which was clean, and agreed to loan her the money for 30 days if she left the car in the possession of the bank. She agreed to that stipulation and left with the cash.
The loan officer and other bankers joked about the "dumb blonde" who gave up the use of her car for a small loan that she obviously didn't need, then put the car into the bank parking lot and didn't think about it for a few weeks.
Four weeks later, the blonde returned, handed back the $5000 still in the original bank bands and the interest for the money. As the loan officer closed out the loan and handed her car keys back, he asked her why she had gotten the loan. She told him, "I went to Europe on vacation. Since the bank was holding the car as collateral, I knew the bank would keep the car secure. To leave my car in secure parking for the four weeks would have cost me much more than this loan did."
Some dumb blonde! 
This is the only "dumb blonde joke" I ever tell.
Actually, I personally know friends who claimed they had more professional success after dying their hair blonde: newscasters, dancers, servers, flight attendants, etc.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/abefg/18-stunning-facts-about-blonds
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/01/blondes-interesting-facts-video-buzzfeed_n_5548190.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/aj8/21-assumptions-people-make-about-blondes-cfe3
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/problems-only-blondes-can-relate-to
Plus Hillary, and Elizabeth Warren and lots of other smart Dems are blonde.
I have another theory about why people make jokes about blondes. Its because many blondes tend to be sweet and friendly and not be bothered by such things. 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.
if one of them makes you sad or angry, I meant the other one.
FYI.
I haven't bothered coloring my hair in a long time, but for years I did, starting at the age of 14.
It's been just about every natural color there is, including platinum blonde. My own color is sort of a dirty dishwater bleh color, so...yeah...I colored it.
Anyway, what I discovered. I got treated WAY differently when my hair was blonde than when it was colored brown or black. By men and women.
It was sort of, I dunno....contemptuous. Like I was stupid or something.
Oh, and a bit on the famous, "Bubble-headed bleach blonde" line from the song, "Dirty Laundry"...
There's a local channel where one of the anchorwomen is a brunette, and she's dumber than a box of rocks. Her occasional co-anchor is blonde and looks like Einstein in comparison.
Hair color...it's only root deep.
Especially with Faux New people, what we object to is not the color of their hair, but the contents of their alleged brains!
I do understand -- I'm a redhead and all the ginger talk really gets to me sometimes.
I've never met a woman with red hair that I didn't like .
