I am a long haired ginger (pronounced "ging" "ger") and I never fail to get all the attention when I'm out with me brunette and blonde mates. I always get told its the hair that attracts the guys so does anyone else agree that ging gers have the most fun?

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

Answers

Well Maria,

From a lads perspective it all boils down to one thing - do the collars and cuffs match? ( us guys we's gots to know)

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

Um, Hard "G"???? what? Redhead? Strawberry Blonde? I'm sorry, I'm not sure what a ging ger is... Anyway, I've determined that no matter what color hair, what size your ass, etc, there is someone out there who finds it attractive...even if your, ah, cuffs don't match. Ew.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

collars and cuffs...heeheehee. The best thing about UKers (besides sexy accents) is that their slang always something new.

Incidentally, I am as blonde as the tassle on an ear of corn, by nature...wouldn't say I have the fun market cornered, but it's, you know, pretty cool. But you're right, G. Everyone's got their own thing...I can't get into blonde guys at all, no matter how nice-looking. I wonder if that's a genetic predisposition? Like I just know at some gut level that a blonde guy and I would get our mess of recessive genes together and just produce heinous children?

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

Well said fruitbat - a village of the damned peopled by banjo-playing youngsters is something worth avoiding. My sexy accent aside, I think its about having a smile on your face + a heart in the right place. Hair colour is but one component of a fun person - what happened to the girls that could drink ten pints, down a vindaloo and fart Rule Britannia - now that's entertainment.

-- Anonymous, November 06, 2000

OK, I must be in a bad mood. I am a true, strawberry blond. I have been told my whole life that it is a really pretty and unique color. But that isn't worth s**t when it comes to getting respect. Most people do not take blonds seriously. I get so mad sometimes.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

I know what you mean Vicki...I am a doctor and I look like a cheerleader (which I never was, don't have the personality for, but I like girly clothes and off the bat it leads to incorrect assumptions.)

I've always looked at it as an opportunity to help out other all the other women in the world...every person who ever meets you, assumes you're a dingbat because of your blonde hair or whatnot, and then finds out otherwise, will go through the rest of their life with their stereotypes undermined at least a little bit. It's still a tough row to hoe, but when I think about my great aunt who was the *only girl* in her science classes in college I think we really are nearing the finish line. There will always be some dumbasses whose minds you can't change, but they're fewer in number and less and less likely to be people who matter in your professional life.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

Also, those nerdy cat-eyed glasses with the black rims are all the rage! You could always cultivate the sexy-scientist look.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

I grew up in a family of blue-eyed, honey-colored blondes and I have two younger sisters who are considered attractive and as a result, the blonde-bit doesn't hold a lot of fascination for me. I HAVE noticed the effect my sisters have on other men when they enter a room, however. Because of overkill (I suppose) I've always preferred brunettes with soulfull brown eyes and I married one. Opposites DO attract. I spent a large portion of my youth in the Philippines and South Vietnam and I did notice the effect my eyes and hair color had on the fairer sex. My sisters, by the way, use lightener of some type in their hair so they're "truer" blondes, but I don't know why. I suppose you could say their drapes don't match their carpet. (Isn't it "blond" for male gender and "blonde" for female? Or has that gone the way of other gender words in our politically correct new-speak?)

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

fruitbat, I have some of those black cat eye glasses but they only have frames on the top part of the glass..I guess that's the updated version. Anyway, I'm very fair in coloring too so they give me instant eyebrows, without makeup!

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

Bubba, you're correct on the spelling of "blond" and "blonde." However, we may be the last people on the planet to know that. But, then, I know the difference between "nauseated" and "nauseous," too, and if I keep up with this subject, you guys are going to stone me for a pedant.

So, back to topic: I have long reddish-blondish hair that gets the occasional compliment, but I don't think anyone has ever approached me because of it. I don't get treated like an idiot, either, unless it's by someone who treats *all* women like idiots. I've been told I look "intimidating," actually, red-blonde hair or not.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

I knew about blond/e, but I didn't want to brag.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

I learned it from reading coroner's reports. Fuckin' medicos are so picky about minor details like hair color, sex of corpse, entry and exit wounds, etc.

-- Anonymous, November 07, 2000

I'll check into those glasses Fruitbat. I am interviewing with a good, women friendly company. Hope I get the job. Speaking of jobs, I keep trying to get a DNA criminalogist position Bubba. I figure it is a job that will remain stable and I worked for the Bureau of Prisons for four years. But, uh gotta remember I'm a blonde :).

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

I never thought much about it (I'm naturally pretty blonde, as is everyone in my family except one of my sisters- we used to tell her she was adopted, and she believed us, despite the fact that apart from the hair she looks exactly like the rest of us) until recently, when I dyed my hair red. And people I meet now, who only know me with dark hair, really do treat me like I am smarter than people I met as a blonde did initially. Which is ridiculous.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Gwen, it's just I have so little brag about.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Including, evidently, my typing skills. That should be "so little *to* brag about."

(proofread first, then hit submit; proofread first, then hit submit)

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Same here. You'd probably have to use an abacus to count the typos I've made on this forum. (or on my site.)

I've never had blond hair. (I'm thinking it's "blond" for hair and "blonde" for a woman with blond hair. Is that right?)

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Yeah, Gwen, a blonde is a female with blond hair. A blond is a male with blond hair. Wood can also be blond.
Good Lord, I'm a geek.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Well, I'm not blonde, so I can't say whether blondes have more fun. My hair used to be a deep auburn, but as I've gotten older it has darkened and now mostly looks brown with red highlights. I have to admit that it has gotten me a great deal of attention in the past. Simply because it was such an unusual color and it looked like every strand was a different color. It's not as nice as it used to be, but still OK. Or I think so. Ya'll can ask Vicki, she knows what I look like. My daughter, however, is EXTREMELY blonde - nearly white blonde. She's only four, so it will be interesting to see how being blonde affects her life.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Dumb Blonde? I think that's myth. I've NEVER met a dumb blonde. Seriously. I've met a few who acted dumb because they were trying to hop in my shorts and assumed wrongly that the act would help. (My sisters used to do this all the time and it really amused me and my brother. We felt like screaming at the target: "It's a trap! It's a trap! Braaaak! Braaaak! Hose-monster alert!" Brothers are such cruel assholes on certain levels.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Heh...brothers can be such stinkers. My name's Erin and every St. Patrick's day you see signs everywhere that say "Erin Go Braugh" which means "Ireland Forever" or some such thing in Gaelic, but my brothers liked to say "erin go bra-less"...never failed to get a laugh from those weasels. That's a good thread...how did you torture/be tortured by your siblings? I think I'll start it.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

All of you talking about blond vs. blonde. What you must think of me. When I am writing something that is for work or school, or that I want to get published, I worry about that stuff. If not, who cares. I figure, this is for fun, right? It gets me into a lot of trouble on the WWW, though. Some guy even has a post I made on his website so the whole world can see what a dumbass I am. OH well. My point, and I do have one around here somewhere, is I hope that it doesn't bother you that I'm going to sound pretty illiterate at times. Unless something jumps out at me on the first blush, I don't worry about fixing what I write. If it's going to bother anyone, I can bother, though.

Trees

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

i have long strewberry hair thats donw to my a$$!!!! i have lots of fund and guys love it.

floos

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Hey, Teresa...don't sweat it. Everyone make mistakes. You're absolutely right, this is for fun. I mentioned the blonde-blond thing because I was curious. You should see some of the mistakes I'VE MADE. Some are real hum-dingers.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Teresa, I don't think anyone here cares. I certainly don't, and it's my forum. So don't worry about it.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Hey, I really liked the blond/e comments. Although I had seen the various spellings, I'd never figured out the reasoning behind the two variants. [Insert your favorite blond/e joke here.] I guess I thought that "e" was like the extra "u" that pops up in the spelling of "color" or something....And here I was thinking I had decent grammar. That was the best thing I learned all day.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Nope, fruitbat...it's the English/American thing. The colonial swine adopted different spellings to give King George the bends. Take the word ARMOUR. In England, it's personal protection. In the colonies, it's pig meat (as in ham). I think it's the same with the grey - gray thing too, but I'm not certain. Pendant, Pendant, Pendant, dant, dant.

-- Anonymous, November 08, 2000

Yeah, Bubba, "gray" is the American spelling, and "grey" is the Queen's English.

I'm an American, but I like "grey" better. I think it just looks prettier, but as I've said before, I'm a big ol' language geek.

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2000

I'm glad y'all brought that up because for the longest time I suspected that "grey" was for horses and "gray" was for dirty or stormy things or vice versa and I don't know what the hell all else. I always use "gray".

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2000

I use grey myself. I just like it better. I remember in 4th grade there was a girl who was there from England for a few years, and she was exempted from spelling tests because her mom didn't want her to start spelling like an American.

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2000

Always happy to oblige a lady and a doctor, fruitbat. What do you call a brunette sitting between two blondes? The interpreter. What's the mating call of the horny brunette? "Has that blonde hussy left yet?" :>

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2000

My favorites:

What do you call a blonde with half a brain? Gifted.

What does a blonde say when you blow in her ear? Thanks for the refill.

How do you get a blondeBs eyes to sparkle? Shine a light in her ear.

And I only have more fun when I want to. I like having the benefit of playing stupid when requested by upper-management to do something menial, though. "Sharpen pencils? Does that mean I put the long stick into this little hole and then GRIND?" Heh.

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2000

Michelle A., I was a white-blond child. I have pictures of me as a toddler and my hair is damn near white. All of the four kids in my immediate family and my dad were very blond was youngsters. My dad's lasted until he was in his 20s and started going brown. My brother's hair is still blond today, although a much darker blond, and he's in his upper 30s. It's odd to me how hair so fair can turn so dark over time. Something in the water?

And ARMOUR doesn't mean pig meat, it's a personal name that became a brand name, from Philip Danforth Armour.

I knew a girl in high school who was a good friend of mine and very sweet. She was very blonde (looking back, I suspect she may have done some coloring...) and was one of those girls you read about from time to time who acted dumb on purpose, believing it made her more attractive to boys. She told me this. She said it was deliberate. I don't understand that, but apparently it's pretty common.

As for the question "does blonde hair attract the guys," my experience is that hair color, by itself, has never been the big discriminating factor for me. I can't say that I've prefered any one color over another. In general, if hair is healthy, has good rich color and shine, and has a good style, that's a big attraction.

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2000

Heh. I did ask for the blond/e jokes didn't I. (Notice my new gender-inclusive politically correct spelling!)

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2000

It always depresses me that there are females that feel they have to act dumb to get guys. It's just common sense that if you have to play dumb to get a guy it isn't worth it. You'll have to keep playing dumb for the duration of the relationship. Intellegence is sexy. Contrary to popular belief I don't think you can "look" smart. Either you are or you aren't. For me, I find that a person only looks as dumb as they are, or as dumb as they act. Hair colour has nothing to do with it.

I've met females that acted dumb and dressed "tarty" who felt the need to repeatedly comment within the course of general conversation on the fact that they have a degree and are in fact intellegent. I'm sure many of you would agree that education and book smarts aren't the only qualifications for intellegence. If you act like a dumb ass but you have a high grade point average--well you're still a dumb ass in my books. You can have a terrible vocabulary, zero education and still be smarter than hell!

I'm a brunette female by-the-way. And I wear glasses too!

-- Anonymous, November 10, 2000

I've been many shades of blonde and I don't have tons o' fun! Probably because I'm not a big flirt and give off the vibe that I'm not interested anyway.

I think it's all attitude, not what color your hair is.

-- Anonymous, November 10, 2000

Simple truth: "The whole world loves a happy girl."

-- Anonymous, November 10, 2000

I'm a blonde and I do believe that I've had much more fun than my 2 brunette sisters and my brunette brother. But that's probably just because I'm crazy.

-- Anonymous, February 05, 2001