Blondes - it's always the blondes, but what is it about them? Chris Cotner just put up a post about smoking hot BLONDE softballer Jennie Finch replacing super hot BLONDE Anna Kournikova as the Hottest Female Athlete.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Victor Plenty
Call me crazy, but I don't have a strong preference here. (Well, it's rare for me to find a bald woman attractive, but that seems to be something more of a cultural universal than a personal preference.)
I've been able to see the beauty in people in all the available human color schemes.
Still not sure whether that's a blessing or not, though. Sometimes I think life might be simpler if some of my aesthetic tastes were more particular.
27 - Phillip Winn
Oh, the Irish redheads! Blondes? Meh.
No personal offense to blondes, of course. I'm sure you're nice people.
28 - Natalie Davis
And some are actually quite intelligent too.
My first gf was an Irish redhead. (sigh) My last was an Irish lass, though she had dark-blond hair, and wow, was she hot. More importantly, though, they were both extremely intelligent, compassionate people. I suspect most of their beauty stemmed from that rather than their physical attributes.
29 - Phillip Winn
I've got a beautiful blonde daughter who is brilliant, and I am sure will continue to be brilliant throughout her life.
I know a beautiful redhead who was a smart girl until she realized boys her age were intimidated by smart girls, so she learned to play dumb. Now she can't get back what she lost, something that frustrates her.
So yeah, intelligence isn't tied to hair color.
But blondes still just don't "do it" for me. :-)
30 - Natalie Davis
Mr. Plenty, the spouse is male and the baldness is the result of genetics and leukemia. Never dated a bald woman, but I have seen some who are smokin'.
31 - Phillip Winn
The trailer for V For Vendetta shows me enough of Natalie Portman bald to let me know I love the look on her.
32 - Eric Olsen
um, you would like Natalie Portman if she was inside out
33 - Natalie Davis
I sure would. Gorgeous, talented, and a Harvard grad to boot. What's not to love?
34 - Victor Plenty
With some of the getups Lucas put her in, she may as well have been bald. Incredibly, she still looked beautiful even under all that claptrap. Too bad no force in the universe could make Lucas' dialogue so interesting.
35 - Phillip Winn
Yeah, Eric, you're right. She's brilliant, funny, and beautiful. What's not to, well, fake-love?
Sigh.
36 - Eric Olsen
we've discussed this before - she's girlish
37 - Victor Plenty
It's possible for a woman to be beautiful and bald, or nearly so. Sigourney Weaver (Alien 3), Demi Moore (G.I. Jane), Sinead O'Connor (Saturday Night Live), and Persis Khambatta (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) have all proven this to be possible. Still, so far as my culturally trained tastes go, my eyes tend to be drawn toward women who have slightly more hair on their heads than those examples.
38 - Eric Olsen
hair -- on the head -- is an asset
39 - Bob A. Booey
Victor: thank you for giving good examples of my blonde test. Demi Moore is smoking hot, even bald. She's the best example yet. I don't know about Sigourney or who that Star Trek chick is, but Sinead's another example of a naturally beautiful, if odd, woman.
Natalie Portman isn't super-hot nor sexy and she's not really my type, but I still think she's beautiful and smart. I hate her in those Star Wars movies, mainly because I hate those Star Wars movies, but that hasn't ruined her for me. If you're a geek like me and watched Garden State with the audio commentary on, she has a quite engaging personality. She and Zach Braff should so be dating because they're both the right kind of kids who should be stars in Hollywood (smart, well-educated, artistic). Somehow Zach Braff is dating Mandy Moore, though. I dunno. Maybe Mandy Moore is smarter than she lets on -- she did do a good movie like "Saved," for example. But then her last boyfriend was tennis idiot Andy Roddick, who doesn't have a thought.
Natalie Davis: you're married to a guy but you're a lesbian? How does that work? Is it like an open marriage? I'm really confused. Did you look like Beyonce with your blonde hair?
Olsen and Phillip: are your grown blonde daughters really beautiful? Or is that like proud-dad beautiful? If they're hot, tell em to call me up. We could have a BlogCritics family dynasty if we all converted and became Mormons. I won't break their hearts, I promise :) I'm just a teddy bear. J/K
That is all.
40 - Victor Plenty
Signourney Weaver is a hot blonde in Galaxy Quest, which is much more fun to watch than Star Trek: The Motionless Picture, as all but the most die hard Trekkers sometimes dub it.
If you've ever seen that movie, you'll remember Persis Khambatta.
She's the bald one.
41 - Natalie Davis
Persis Khambatta, now that was one beautiful human, with or without hair, and hers was not blond. I hope she is resting in peace.
42 - Victor Plenty
Damn. I didn't know she was deceased. Probably would have phrased my last comment differently if I'd known, although I meant no disrespect to her in any case. If anything I was more lampooning Roddenberry's artistic decision there. Asking a superlatively attractive actress to play a bald woman may have been a daring and futuristic choice, but it probably didn't help the movie's box office returns.
43 - Natalie Davis
Mr. Plenty, I didn't see anything at all disrespectful in what you wrote. Just so you know, Ms. Khambatta, who was also a Miss India, died of a heart attack August 18, 1998. She was 47 years old at the time of her passing. As for whether her baldness hurt the box office of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, we'll never know, but the 1979 flick grossed $100 million (though it probably would have earned more if it had been a better movie).
44 - Bob A. Booey
No one cares about Star Trek. Must you geek up a topic about hotness?
The only important question is whether this dead Indian woman you speak of is hotter than goddess-on-Earth Ashwarya Rai. I seriously doubt that's possible.
That is all.
45 - Bob A. Booey
Why have I still not heard back about the daughter hook-ups? I thought this was a FULL-SERVICE site! Full service! I thought we were a family, a big community here. I'm a little hurt.
I think the best threads on this site are about chicks and their hotness. We need more of those, not just once a year when FHM and Maxim release their Top 100.
P.S. -- I looked up that Persis chick and she was pretty, but she's no Ashwarya. The red mohawk was weird. Star Trek was so asexual that they'd make a hot chick look unsexy.
P.P.S. -- I bet I made Olsen laugh and made milk bubbles come out of his nose when he was eating Cheerios. Am I right a little bit or what? Yet he won't hook me up with his hot older daughter.
46 - Eric Olsen
none of Phillip's kids have reached double-digits, so that pretty well precludes hotness
I cannot address the "hotness" of my daughter as my last name is not Simpson and I am not a progeny pimp, but I suppose I can modestly state that she is quite beautiful. There are those who participate in the site who have met her or at least seen pictures - I will leave it to them to elaborate
47 - Bob A. Booey
Oh, apologies, Phillip. I thought you were an older gent. How embarrassing.
Olsen, I'll let you know how my courtship of Ashwarya Rai goes before we talk daughters. She has hypnotized me with her eyes and no woman can have the same hold on me while I am under her spell.
That is all.
48 - Eric Olsen
probably for the best
49 - Nancy
I find it frustrating to have started out life as a natural platinum-blonde, only to hit adolescence & have it all go medium brunette. Subsequent attempts to regain my infant blondness have been dismal failures, as for some reason (skin tone change, most likely) I now find that while I make a decent light-brownie, I am the world's ugliest blonde, which does not augur well for my old age & future grey coloration. Maybe I should go bald, or at least get a mohawk....
50 - Bob A. Booey
Nancy, go to a good hair salon and get a dye job. It's not too hard. All your co-workers do it. If you're convinced you're the world's ugliest blonde, then stay brunette. Brunettes are hotter sometimes.
That is all.
51 - Victor Plenty
A mohawk is perfect for making sure very few guys will hit on you. If that's what you want, definitely go for the mohawk, preferably a bright day-glo green one.
52 - Clint
Blondes appeal accross most ethnic and cultural backgrounds as stated in the Article, case in point, Tiger Woods is married to a blonde swedish hottie.
My last girlfriend was a Mennonite blonde bombshell ( although she did dye her hair since it was a shade of dirty blonde she didn't like) IMO, since most white people are blonde when they are kids, it is an unconscious reminder to men of her fertility and youthfulness when a woman dies her hair blonde.
53 - ***BLONDY***
i am blond and i DO NOT think blonds are dumb! but brunetes arent better ether we are all the same. i suit blond hair better so why should i change it?
54 - blondes are hot
BLONDES ARE HOT! wow baby! if i could just get 1 4 myself...
55 - i agree with blondes are hot man
dayam dey are fyn! good 4 a quickee 2!
56 - lovely
Marilyn monroe was really a burnette with red highlights so then burnettes with redhighlights should really be representing Marilyn monroe if it is true she bleaches her hair. Same with Pamela Anderson. So some blondes maybe plain joe.
57 - chicki22
I happen to be a natural blond. Throughout my life I have been called everything from bimbo, slut, airhead, and barbie. I am none of those things. It seems that often a woman's intelligence is overlooked due to the colour of her hair. During a period in my teens I chose to wear fake glasses and dyed my hair reddish-brown in an attempt to be taken more seriously by my teachers and the boys at school. This didn't last very long. I know some very bad blond jokes could be made about my actions, but I felt very uncomfortable with all the attention I recieved, such as winks from my teachers. Now, in my twenties, I have grown my hair passed my shoulders and am wearing my natural colour. I have a bachelor's degree and am currently pursuing an accounting designation, I find that at times people look at me sideways when I tell them of my carreer plans. I go to a university where 75% of the students are asian, and often I am the only blonde in my lecture hall. (aside from the obvious black eyebrowed bleach blonde chicks) It might sound silly, but I often feel being blond has been more a problem in my life then a bonus. My boyfriend loves my hair colour, and sometimes his dad is a little creepy when he looks at my chest. (I actually had an ex who was so obsessed with my long blonde hair that he wanted to brush it all the time, I found that a little to weird, kind of like a guy who has a fetish to be stepped on my women in high heels.. nm) I have women I have never spoken to call me a bitch or a slut, and even had a friend tell me that if she didnt know me as a person, and saw me on the street she would have made an assumption that I was bitchy. This really isn't fair. I would go as far as to say I am discriminated against and face racial harrassment due to the colour of my hair.
My advice? If you really want to be a treated like a piece of meat and not an intelligent being, then dye your hair blonde.
Sorry, I was looking for a website with a message board for blondes who need advice on how to be taken seriously, but this is the best I could find. If anyone has found one, could you please post it for me?
Thanks
58 - Abbi Spriggs
I am a natural blonde, I am 5'10'tall and i have a large chest. All of that is natural and sometimes its more of a curse than a blessing people see me a certain way and never as anything else. I also happen to have one of the highest G.P.A.'s in my class.
Through out my life I have gotten a large amount of unwanted attention from friends to complete strangers alike. Most of the time Iam proud that I have naturally what most women have to pay for. But I would give anything to be a short average looking women if it means that I wont be stereotyped. I will always be proud of who I am. But I am not proud of unwanted attention from perverts. Not to say that I am a knock out or anything like that because dont get me wrong i have a whole list full of insecurities butonce in a while I would like not to be called a Bitch by a complete stranger. But I will always hold my head and my naturally blonde hair up high with a little dignity and grace. Giving natural blondes everywhere a good name.
59 - dave
or at least send me a pic of them, haahahaha
60 - Steve
My advice to any woman who wants to be taken seriously is to not flaunt your sexuality (except maybe with your significant other who knows you quite well), otherwise you will give the impression (rightly or wrongly) that you are probably a shallow person.
61 - chantal stone
Steve...what do you mean by "flaunt your sexuality"?
I don't think anyone should "flaunt" anything, however there's something wrong with the stereotype that a beautiful and sexy woman can't also be intelligent and have something profound to add to a conversation.
And that says more about the people who wrongly perceive that woman, as opposed to her.
62 - Steve
Well, I guess what I meant by that was, for women to just be themselves. Sometimes some women think being sexy is like acting like Marilyn Monroe or some other movie star, which just makes her look phoney and forced. I just find women that aren't trying to project a Hollywood stereotype of sexy are easier to take seriously.
I'm not saying a woman CAN'T be intelligent by being beautiful and sexy, by the way, I guess I'm just saying, as long as her sexyness is her own, and not some act, it's easier to take seriously, that's all. I should say, I can't say I've met many women who seem to be putting on an act, in that regard, fortunately.
63 - chantal stone
I've just found that overtly sexual people are often trying to make up for some other deficiency, trying to hide something, or simply just looking for love...none of which have anything to do with the person's intelligence or lack thereof.
However, in my mind there is a difference between being "overtly sexual" and being just a sexual, or sexually aware person, which to me is all apart of personal enlightenment.
64 - Steve
Ok, let me put it this way, while it is true that there is no link between beauty, sexyness (spelling?) and intelligence per se, those that are commonly known as 'airheads' do exist, irregardless of their beauty or lack thereof. Not that this makes them 'bad people', just that they don't have much in the intellect department, that's all.
Personally, I have met a number of blondes over the years who are smart that I have also found attractive, so I don't want to give you the impression that I think all blondes are dumb or something, not at all.
65 - Eric Olsen
I agree Chantal, but it's pretty difficult for a lot of people to figure out what is "just being themselves" and what is influenced by society and culture - very interesting subject!
66 - TA Dodger
I actually can't think of any women I personally know who are both really beautiful and really intelligent... but I don't think that has anything to do with any negative correlation between beauty and intelligence; it just means that both qualities are pretty rare.
Basically, I think people assume that because they don't see women who have both of those qualities that the qualities themselves must be mutually exclusive. The reality, however, is that saying "I don't know any women who are both beautiful and intelligent" is like saying "I don't any women who both knit and juggle." It's not as if knowing how to knit prevents a person from learning to juggle, it's just that it's rare enough to have just one of those skills let alone both. Same with beauty and intelligence. It's not as if great beauty prevents great intelligence, it's just that very few people are blessed with one of these things, let along both.
I hope that made some kind of sense.
67 - chantal stone
"...it's just that very few people are blessed with one of these things, let along both."
Do you really believe that TA? That there are few beautiful and/or intelligent people out there?
Perhaps your standard of what is beautiful is too high or unrealistic. Or maybe, when you do meet a beautiful woman, you don't allow her the opportunity to show how intelligent she really is.
Many would argue that right here on BC there are plenty of both beautiful AND intelligent women.
I'll give you some time to take the foot out of your mouth.
68 - TA Dodger
Do you really believe that TA? That there are few beautiful and/or intelligent people out there?
Yes. I do believe that there relatively few beautiful or (extremely) intelligent people out there. That's what makes them beautiful or (extremely) intelligent instead of "average."
Now, I think my view does beg one question: Why don't people have this same assumption about men? (This assumption being "beauty is negatively correlated with brains")
After all, men aren't any more likely than women to be attractive or intelligent, so they should be just as unlikely as women to be both intelligent and beautiful, yet we don't have a "hot guys are dumb" stereotype...
69 - chantal stone
Any of the points that I made could easily have been applied to men or women, I hold no stereotypes about hot smart guys or hot dumb ones, or whatever....
But back to the topic at hand...if you really don't know any (or few) beautiful and/or intelligent people, my advice is that you get out there and meet more people. I know a lot of "average"--by your definition-- people, but I also know PLENTY of beautiful men and women, intelligent men and women, and beautiful AND intelligent men and women.
They are definitely out there, just take a look around.
70 - TA Dodger
Any of the points that I made could easily have been applied to men or women, I hold no stereotypes about hot smart guys or hot dumb ones, or whatever....
Chantal, I was certainly not trying to accuse you of having a stereotype or being sexist.
I feel like I might be being misinterpreted so let me try to explain.
In comment #61, Steve said:
My advice to any woman who wants to be taken seriously is to not flaunt your sexuality (except maybe with your significant other who knows you quite well), otherwise you will give the impression (rightly or wrongly) that you are probably a shallow person.
That made me thing: "Where does our culture's idea that beautiful women can't be smart and smart women can't be beautiful come from?" I don't subscribe to the idea, and it's always seemed very sexist to me. But, I wanted to try to give people the benefit of the doubt and try to come up with a reason people might have innocently come to this obviously mistaken belief.
I gave it some thought and wondered if maybe people think it's not possible for women to be both very attractive and very intelligent just because it's not common for women to be both. Defining "beautiful" as being "far above average in attractiveness" and "very intelligent" as being "far above average in intelligence" it's obvious that most people won't be either of those things and only very few people will be both. In other words, most beautiful women won't be extremely intelligent (just because most people by definition aren't far above average in intelligence) and most extremely intelligent women won't be beautiful (just because most people, by definition, aren't far above average in looks).
A guy looks around himself and sees "most of my beautiful female friends aren't extremely intelligent and most of my really smart female friends aren't beautiful. I guess it's true that smart women can't be pretty and pretty women can't be smart!" Thus, an incorrect stereotype is "confirmed" in people's minds because of the wierdness of probability.
When I made my point in my last post about how this should be equally applicable to men, I wasn't criticizing you at all; I was trying to explain a flaw in my argument that I had noticed but you hadn't pointed out. Basically, If I was trying to find a non-sexist "cause" for this incorrect stereotype I had failed, because my theory does not explain why we, as a culture, have this stereotype about "dumb hot women" and NOT about "dumb hot men."
Obviously, there is some sexism at the root of this stereotype, or it would apply equally to both sexes.
Thanks for reading. I hope this makes what I'm trying to say more clear.
71 - chantal stone
I never took offense, TA, but I appreciate you clarifying.
Be well :)
72 - Steve
Interesting points you two, I guess the male equivalent of a 'dumb blonde' stereotype would be the 'dumb jock' stereotype.
Now of course, TA...Chantal does have a point...I mean 95% of any general population will have an IQ of between 70-130. So if by intelligent you mean 'genius', then you have a valid point, only about half of the remaining 5% would fit into that category, presumably being divided 50/50 between men and women so...1 and a 1/4% would be female 'geniuses' and the same number presumably male... rare indeed!!!
However, I'm not sure 'intelligent' should be the sole preserve of the 'genius' category. Otherwise, 95% of the population would be dumb!!! (Maybe I'm just being too touchy, my IQ is only 126).
I have known a fair number of beautiful AND intelligent women in my day, alas all the ones I know right now are spoken for.
73 - Steve
Actually, I should have said 97 and a 1/2% would be dumb not 95%, because the other 2 and a 1/2 below an IQ of 70 would be 'mentally challenged' for lack of a better term.
Anyway, you get my drift. I think we need a broader definition of 'intelligence' than 'genius' lol. But then, as I say, I'm biased!!
74 - TA Dodger
I think we need a broader definition of 'intelligence' than 'genius'
Fair enough.
You're using two standard deviations above the mean. (95% of people fall within two standard deviations). I would probably use something between one standard deviation and two standard deviations, but to be generous, let's just say that to be considered "beautiful" or "very intelligent" one just has to be one standard deviation above average. 68% of people fall within one standard deviation of the mean. Thus 16% of people will fall above one standard deviation of the mean in intelligence and 16% percent will fall above one standard deviation of the mean in attractiveness. Since these two probabilities are independent, the chances of being both intelligent and beautiful would be the product of the probabilities: P(bc)= .16 x .16 = .025 or 2.5%. Since, as you say, only 50% of these people will be women, that leaves only 1.25% of the human population composed of beautiful, intelligent women.
I have known a fair number of beautiful AND intelligent women in my day, alas all the ones I know right now are spoken for.
I was lucky enough to find a beautiful, intelligent man, who isn't bothered by my average looks. :)
Sorry if this is dull or nonsensical; insomnia is driving me crazy.
75 - Steve
ooohhh, stats re. beauty??? You are brave!!! I've never seen such stats and I just wonder how one would go about defining beauty in a woman??? You know, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and all that?? After all, I've seen some (what are to me anyway) real butt ugly couples, so...I don't know...it's wayyy past my bedtime lol.