Jezebel: Blondes

Male Gaze To Fix Latvian Economy

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 29 May 2011 17:16:00 EDT

Tiny Latvia has not been having a good decade. The country of 2.2 million has had to cut services for its citizens as the effects of the ongoing global financial slump has ravaged its fiscal health. Last year, the Baltic country's economy shrank 18 percent. Everyone is sad. What's a formerly Soviet bloc country to do? More »

The Myth Of The Dumb Blonde

Sadie Stein — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:19:00 EDT

Is the "dumb blonde" stereotype more dye-ist than color-ist? More »

CNN Anchor Was Set Up For Seduction By Fake ACORN Pimp

Irin Carmon — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:20:09 EDT

James O'Keefe, the ACORN-stinging fake pimp, had a novel idea on how to derail CNN's Abbie Boudreau documentary about young right-wing activists like him: seduce her and make a blackmail-ready sex tape. Wait til you hear about his planned moves. More »

Natural Blonde Resents Bottle Blondes

Sadie Stein — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:18:00 EDT

"As the only woman I know who has made it into her 40s with a natural head of golden locks, it's maddening to read about bottle-blondes whose only wish is that people see beyond the (unnatural) colour of their hair." More »

Blondes Sell More Records

Sadie Stein — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:30:29 EDT

From Gaga to Ke$ha to Rihanna to Xtina, "on the pop charts, blondes have held up to 70 per cent of the top slots recently." Take that, medium-brown Bieber! [GlobeandMail] More »

Blondes Have More Fun And Earn More Money, Apparently

Hortense Smith — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:25:00 EDT

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According to a study published in Economics Letters, blonde women are paid 7% more than women with other hair colors, and also tend to marry wealthier men. Wait until Veronica Lodge hears about this! [Telegraph] More »

The Implications & Ramifications Of Being Black & Blonde

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:30:00 EST

NPR's Teshima Walker noticed that many of the black women at the Grammys had golden locks. Walker admits that she herself has blond tips, but says: More »

Garden-Gate: Food Network Uses Faux Obama Veggies • Cat Saves Family From Fire

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:30:00 EST

• The Obamas have been involved in a "veg scam," according to the NY Post. The vegetables used for the January 3rd Iron Chef White House Special were not, in fact, from the first lady's garden. • More »

Study: Blondes Are Warrior Princesses

Anna North — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:30:00 EST

A small study found that blonde women were more "warlike" than others, perhaps because "they are treated like a princess." Obvious counterexample: Xena. [BBC] More »

Shameless Socialite Illustrates Advantages Of Being Thin, White & Blonde

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:30:00 EST

The Washington Post's Robin Givhan knows the real reason Michaele and Tareq Salahi got into the White House. "Call it tall, thin, white, blonde privilege," she writes. More »

Blondes Have More Fun, Longer Showers

Sadie Stein — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:30:00 EDT

"A new survey" "reveals" that blondes take up to twice as long as brunettes to "get ready" to "go out." But, do they mean blondes, or "blondes?" Because that already implies more time-investment, yes? [Sun] More »

Barbie Movie Could Be Best Or Worst Thing Ever

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EDT

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Despite Transformers and GI Joe, Hollywood is not done mining our childhood memories: Universal has acquired the rights to make a live-action movie based on Barbie. Details are sketchy, but here's what could happen: More »

Blondes Have More Fun Fiscal Confidence

Sadie Stein — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:40:00 EDT

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"Going blonde is a guaranteed way for a woman to feel like a million dollars even during a credit crisis," says one Aussie stylist. Apparently salons are plying peroxide and home-bleaching products are up 67% in the UK. [News.com.au] More »

Blondes Have More Skin Checks

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:20:00 EDT

New research indicates that blondes and redheads are three times more likely than the general population to get melanoma, and fair-haired people who worked outdoor jobs as teens are ten times likelier to be diagnosed with the skin cancer. [TheAge] More »

Blondes Have More Sun

Anna Holmes — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:10:00 EDT

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Survey Says Blondes Don't Have More Fun... On Second Dates

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:40:00 EDT

Sorry, blondes. First Archie picks Veronica, now this: The dating site Parship.co.uk surveyed 1,300 people and found that on a first date blondes were most likely to have sex, mention an ex, forget their date's name, and drink too much, supposedly decreasing their chances of another date. [The Telegraph] More »

The Marrying Kind

Sadie Stein — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:40:00 EDT

Anita Loos knew her stuff. Her two big novels? Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But They Marry Brunettes have apparently been found true. Sure enough, while men might want to date blonde bombshells, a new study reports that 52% would rather marry a dark-haired woman because they're more "dependable and sensible." Only 18% think blondes would make "good wives" because, presumably, these same guys think they're frivolous bimbos. Of course, we already knew that billionaires tend to favor dark hair in partners, but who knew brunettes had such a unilateral matrimonial leg up? Somewhere, Dorothy Shaw is laughing. [Daily Express] More »

Legally Blonde

Maria — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:20:00 EDT

A former Abercrombie & Fitch saleswoman has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the company, claiming that she was fired because she was black and had blonde highlights. Burchette claims a white supervisor demanded that she remove her highlights and, when she asked if she could instead go all-blonde the supervisor told her, "It is not natural." A&F, of course, has a longstanding commitment to the "natural" aesthetic, as evidenced by its 60-something CEO who dyes his own hair blond and remains committed to dressing the part of a frat boy vacationing in Cape Cod. [NY Post & Salon] More »

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Is Not Fuzzy About Her Math

Moe — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is stupid. We know this because, among other reasons, back in July the New York Post ran the most damning testament to the blonde View host's stupidity that anyone is ever going to bother writing about Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But she is determined to prove otherwise! Yesterday she was back in the Post's Page Six Magazine, full of nerdy asides straight out of an SAT prep class. The result is a profile that is sort of like that time during the 2000 election, post the whole "fuzzy math" exchange, when Bush memorized the Serbian president's name and Will Ferrell parodied it on one of those SNL skits that was so very humorous pre- the whole three trillion dollar unjust war debacle thingy. Watch Hasselbeck recite the periodic table, trigonometric formulas — and show off a bonus pic of her art! — after the jump. More »

Natural Born Barbies

Jessica — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:45:00 EST

Strange Maps has discovered the blond map of Europe created by Eupedia.com: it illustrates which countries have the greatest percentage of fair-haired citizens. Not surprisingly, the "core area" of blonds is born around the Baltic Sea, and people get progressively less blond the further away from that core. If you're actually blond, you might have trouble reading the map, but we're putting it after the jump anyway. (J/K people. J/K!). Click on the tag to see. [Strange Maps via Eupedia.com] More »

'Anchorwoman' Insiders Bemoan The Predictable Sexist Demise Of Their Actually Good Reality Show

Moe — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:20:11 EDT

Pussy Whip

Anna Holmes — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:02:55 EST

We've long suspected this: Old, fat and/or Catholic women have the hardest time getting dates. [NY Times] More »