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physically attractive women have less pressing incentives to cultivate and demonstrate their intellect to ensure their future, since physically attractiveness is an asset, or correlatively that intelligent women have less pressing incentives to dye their hair to a presumed attractive color. The purported validity of this explanation is purely hypothetical and has been corroborated earlier by its applicability to a similar pervasiveness of the "
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the same woman with "natural" (not dyed) looking brown, red, and blonde hair in the context of a job application for an accounting position. The researchers found that the blonde-haired applicant was rated as significantly less capable than her brunette counterpart. In addition, participants designated the female applicant's starting salary as significantly lower when she was depicted as a blonde than when she was shown with brown hair.
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women (compared to less than 5% that directly referenced dumb blonde men). Research indicates that because of this, men report being amused by blonde jokes significantly more than women do. The fact that most of these jokes target the invariably dim-witted, and sexually promiscuous, women makes them even more sexist. In the 20th century, a class of
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preferred to cast blonde women for major roles in his films as he believed that the audience would suspect them the least, comparing them to "virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints", hence the term "Hitchcock blonde". This stereotype became so ingrained that it spawned counter-narratives,
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commercial for hair colorant, they use the phrase "Is it true blondes have more fun?" Some women have reported they feel other people expect them to be more fun-loving after having lightened their hair. In much of the
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892:comic strip
881:Dumb Blonde
711:Carabinieri
691:promiscuous
680:Blonde joke
668:Dumb Blonde
607:Goldie Hawn
603:Carol Wayne
494:Dumb blonde
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431:Jean Harlow
400:gender role
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341:Lana Turner
316:Grace Kelly
291:Grace Kelly
239:, in which
123:Jean Harlow
119:celebrities
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2463:Blond hair
2457:Categories
2061:25 October
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776:The Office
731:meta-jokes
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576:the song "
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551:(1925) by
463:stereotype
420:See also:
365:Diana Dors
166:Anita Loos
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697:girl or
695:sorority
646:brunette
561:Broadway
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272:Typology
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