Monday 17 December 2007

Dumb Blonde?

Blondes Have More Fun.


But do you know that blondes apparently have more fun as they are seen as more promiscuous and easy? Nice. But before you brunnettes use this little bit of info as fuel against us know that Wikipedia says that the reason blondes get this horrible and (wrong) information is because throughout history blonde people have been seen as more desirable as most people had dark hair and darker skin. So blondes were seen as prettier as brunettes simply because there were fewer of them, they were different from the norm.


"Canadian anthropologist Peter Frost, under the aegis of University of St Andrews, published a study in March 2006 in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior that says blond hair evolved very quickly at the end of the last Ice Age by means of sexual selection.[4] According to the study, the appearance of blond hair and blue eyes in some northern European women made them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males. The study argues that blond hair was produced higher in the Cro-Magnon descended population of the European region because of food shortages 10,000-11,000 years ago. Almost the only sustenance in northern Europe came from roaming herds of mammoths, reindeer, bison and horses and finding them required long, arduous hunting trips in which numerous males died, leading to a high ratio of surviving women to men. This hypothesis argues that women with blond hair posed an alternative that helped them mate and thus increased the number of blonds.
According to the authors of The History and Geography of Human Genes (1994), blond hair became predominant in Europe in about 3000 BC, in the area now known as Lithuania, among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers though the trait spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia when that area was settled because men found women with blond hair attractive.[5][6]"


We've used this idea in our project to show a woman searching for perfection, starting off by changing her hair, to a BLONDE, of course...

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