stuffmomnevertoldyou: History’s Original “Dumb Blonde” First off, I feel the need

stuffmomnevertoldyou: History’s Original “Dumb Blonde” First off, I feel the need to emphasize how much this lifelong brunette detests the phrase “dumb blonde.” It’s a baseless stereotype generally leveled against women that often crescendos in sexist punchlines and idiotic assumptions about the correlation between the level of eumelanin in one’s hair follicles and intelligence. And even though it might sound like I’m taking those terribly unfunny dumb blonde jokes far too seriously, scores of studies on the sociology and psychology of hair colors confirm that men and women alike tend to judge towheaded ladies as more incompetent and needier than their darker-haired galpals. In wondering when and why such a random stereotype arose, I had figured it had plenty to do with Marilyn Monroe’s 1953 performance in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” in which she plays the preferable blonde (which is kind of funny when you consider that Norma Jean Mortenson was a brunette when she first headed out in Hollywood). It turns out, however, that the original dumb blonde — the ODB, if you will — came around a couple centuries prior. -- source link

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