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Stereotypes of blond girl
Hello everybody!
I'm blonde. In Poland we have many stereotypes of blond girl. Very often it's connecting with real discrimination and marginalization in true life. I'm intresting in what You- people form different countries can tell me about women discrimination? About stereotypes associated with women?
I'm doing women problems due to my bachelor's work. It's about stereotype of blond womens, stereotypes in jokes, in culture. I try find out why blond is stereotype to?
Please, share yours ideas, yours opinions, yours mind:)
Tags: blonde, discrimination, marginalisation, stereotype, women
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Permalink Comment by Katarzyna Zaczek on -
One more- sorry for my English:)
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Permalink Comment by Sukma Wijayanti on -
For me stereotype is just a stereotype. Its depend on peoples mind. If they see something broadly and then well-informed and eclectic, there's no such a thing called stereotype for any things. I think stereotype is shaped from the past, when there's something going on in the moment and well on into right now. What a bad legacy...
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Permalink Comment by Katarzyna Zaczek on
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Unfortunately…...stereotypes are very strongly associated with our mind sets. There's no way to get rid off some perceptions models of reality. You're right Sukma- stereotypes comes from the past. It's incredible interesting why some stereotypes be ever formed and how?
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Permalink Comment by Emma Jacoby on -
That is both sad and fascinating. In America, at least, society has it's own silly stereotypes about people, typically women, with different hair colours. Blondes, for the most part, are characterised as witless. But it's rare that anyone will make note of it or bring it to light until a woman does something that fits the stereotype. A friend might do something silly, and she'll laugh and say, 'I'm such a blonde!' or, perhaps, if a woman was a natural blonde but died her hair, she would use her natural hair colour as a funny, half-hearted excuse. There are few people who take it aeriously, though.I wonder how much of this particular stereotype, in Poland, are political. I genuinely don't know much/anything about Poland or Polish culture except for what the textbooks say about Hitler and the Nazis invading. How, in any way, the Aryan aesthetics would only leave negativity for women, I don't know. Some cultures--especially older ones--take stereotypes more seriously.In America, there are dangerous stereotypes for many races, for one. It's sad, but there are many times when those stereotypes are justified.
What exactly are the challenges you face? Strictly social, or are there economic manifestations of this prejudice?
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Permalink Comment by Emma Jacoby on
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Ha, and please forgive MY English and grammar--typing on an iPhone with a broken screen is hard!
Emma Jacoby said:That is both sad and fascinating. In America, at least, society has it's own silly stereotypes about people, typically women, with different hair colours. Blondes, for the most part, are characterised as witless. But it's rare that anyone will make note of it or bring it to light until a woman does something that fits the stereotype. A friend might do something silly, and she'll laugh and say, 'I'm such a blonde!' or, perhaps, if a woman was a natural blonde but died her hair, she would use her natural hair colour as a funny, half-hearted excuse. There are few people who take it aeriously, though.I wonder how much of this particular stereotype, in Poland, are political. I genuinely don't know much/anything about Poland or Polish culture except for what the textbooks say about Hitler and the Nazis invading. How, in any way, the Aryan aesthetics would only leave negativity for women, I don't know. Some cultures--especially older ones--take stereotypes more seriously.In America, there are dangerous stereotypes for many races, for one. It's sad, but there are many times when those stereotypes are justified. What exactly are the challenges you face? Strictly social, or are there economic manifestations of this prejudice?
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Permalink Comment by Eduardo Alvarez on -
Stereotypes are mainly based on prior assumptions from a specyfic group or region, therefore, they cannot be taken as an actual veracity of the discussed idea... even some of them are so well established through many years or generations. In the case you mentioned, blond women stereotype, here in Mexico is also many times associated to witless (just as Emma said is in the US) and I consider Media has a LOT to do with it: on many US and Mexican tv shows I´ve seen sketches making fun of such stereotype, which has become very common for jokes. On the other hand, in both countries, I have also seen tv shows, movies & stories of blond women associated to success, power and courage for goals achievement. Therefore, at the very end, there´s always a freedom to the "viewer" for creating a self-judgment on what a woman is, not depending of her hair color ;)
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Permalink Comment by Emma Jacoby on
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Exhibit A: Legally Blonde.
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Permalink Comment by Katarzyna Zaczek on
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Emma, you mean this movie?:P
Well, in Poland stereotypes are treating very seriously. We have very old fashioned society and most of them are just bacwards. Only new generation like mine- dont care about ours ancestross beliefs and we withdraw from many stereotypes. But still- prejudices related with women are very popular. Women earn less than men even have the same qualifications, women many times are fired cause of pregnant, in our parliament we have only 20% women of whole 460 members.
And Eduardo- even though women try to create a self-judgment, men dont want to see that and ther treat them according to stereotypes.
I'm wondering why blonde? Why not brunette or red haired girls are under stereotypising? Have you any ideas?
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Permalink Comment by Emma Jacoby on
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The blonde stereotype...weird one, really, but it kind of makes sense: blonde hair has been considered attractive and desirable in Western culture for centuries. Blonde women are perceived as fairer and more gentle: thus, a blonde woman is often perceived as making little use of her intelligence, as a "woman who relied rather on her looks rather than on intelligence." A blonde woman, I guess, would be expected to enter an advantageous marriage and not have to support herself. They were pettied and protected in European culture. If they were intelligent, it didn't really matter. I'm sure they took advantage of that, and it think that may have trickled down as their genetics were passed on to their children: a blonde mother might encourage a blonde daughter to simply smile at the boys, so to speak, in order to be courted. Dark features were often associated with the Moors, and a woman with dark hair would have been praying for a rich father, a markedly sweet disposition, or a valuable trade to offer society. Brunettes and Redheads face their own slew of stereotypes, but none of them as consistent, damaging or, apparently, widespread as the "Dumb Blonde" stereotype.
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Permalink Comment by Arcci Relloso on -
I think that prejudice is a prerequisite of knowledge meaning we always think at a context so we cannot completely eradicate it. However stereotypes, like blondes are witless or redheads are too adventurous, are fossilized errors society needs to correct. This line of thinking must have some historical basis, like the ones mentioned in the earlier posts, which I'm unaware of. I can only talk about such topic based on my own experience. I'm from the Philippines and we're more or less a conservative community where women are THEORETICALLY treated as equal with men. However, I'd say that in reality women are mostly expected to be stay at home moms and are therefore given lesser chances to compete with men in the workplace especially in rural areas. My society's used to it so they think it's an acceptable practice. Feminist movements are trying to deal with it though. Don't you have similar movements in Poland? :)
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Permalink Comment by Muhammed Asad Janjua on -
Stereotyping in anyway either a joke or anything wrong... As it impacts and puts wrong influence on people making them judgmental about those being stereotyped.. I think stereotyping should be categorized with the other forms of discrimination just as within an office sexual harassment is forbidden and against the law... AND!!!! regarding blonde stereotyping... well my wife is a blonde and she is ten times more intelligent and smarter than most women i know hahaha... so i guess thats an answer in itself :)....
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Permalink Comment by Eduardo Alvarez on
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Katarzyna, I remembered your topic when I saw this video, at certain point she says "a single story creates stereotypes and the problem of stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete, they make one story become only story = and it robes people our dignity, It makes our recognition of an equal humanity difficult, it emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar" :) ...quite interesting talk on TED: "The danger of a single story" :) Hugs!!!
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