Firey tempered redheads...Dumb blonds....Yeah right!

HAHAHA you are hilarious. I'm sorry it's just human nature to categorize and stereotype many many things, not just human beings! Hell lots of people stereotype pitbulls as being very violent dogs, and many other people stereotype them as being nice loving docile creatures. But I'm sure you've never done that lol. Regardless it's just human nature I'm sorry, if you aren't human then I guess you have nothing to worry about. Unless you are the ONE exception, which apparently you are lol. Stereotyping me as an inaccurately stereotyper is just another inaccurate stereotype! So you just stereotyped me as an inaccurate stereotyper! YES! oh god way too many of the same words. lol.

I never said I relish those jokes I was just saying that's why they are present. There wouldn't be any stereotyping if there weren't some truth to it. There will always be stereotypes, forever. You stereotype without even knowing it. Get off your high horse.

I've been blonde, brunette, redhead - heck I've even had blue hair lol! I'm naturally a brunette though but my temperament probably fits the redhead stereotype and I'm a redhead at the moment. In fact I always revert back to red eventually - it suits me best. Personally I think the stereotype thing is just a bit of silliness. I can honestly say that no-one ever treated me differently when I changed the colour of my hair. Sure there are blonde jokes (I can't actually think of any brunette or redhead jokes but that's not to say there aren't some out there) but I don't think anyone really believes all that stuff do they?? I have to say though that I can see the point one of your other respondents is making (although perhaps not very diplomatically!). It IS a very rare person that has absolutely no prejudices whatsoever - no matter how much we try to repress them they are usually lurking around somewhere just waiting to come out!! However, I think someone being genuinely prejudiced against another person because of their hair colour and the associated stereotype that goes with it would be fairly bizarre and pretty rare (I would hope!).

Mostly from movies and television, but the invention of "blond jokes" probably did more to perpetuate it than anything. ~~~~~~ What is a redhead? A blond from hell. ;~D

I don't think i've ever heard of a stereotypical joke going to the length to denote an entire population of people. I can't remember ever hearing a joke that said "so what did the blonde like ALL blondes say to the brunette who reacted like ALL brunettes do" lol. It's just a stereotype, it hardly ever goes out of it's way to say ALL. It exists because A LOT, or MOST of a certain group of people act a certain way....DUH.

WOW then you truly are an amazing exception to societal norms. Well how's this, instead of me stabbing in the dark how about you just fess up and think of something that you catch yourself stereotyping about. No matter how insignificant, if it's anything remotely connected to a stereotype then go ahead and let us know lol. later!

Being that I am a blond myself, I hate the stereotypes...I can honestly say that!! The thing I hated worse was the dang blond jokes because they were told to me insinuating that I was just like that, now I take them in stride. I also hated growing up because of the fact that everyone (including all the dang kids) treated me as if I was completely stupid just because I was blond, and it followed me until I was 18...then I finally did something about it. See, I kinda got into the grunge/rocker faze and I LOVED the look. So I decided to change my hair color. At first it was just plain old red, and then as time went on I did a little thinking...why not have the best of both worlds? And because I also paid attention to the stereotypes I decided to dye my hair two different colors...my bangs were platinum blond and the rest was such a dark red that it was almost purple when I was not in the light. So I claimed that I had the best of both worlds...I could be a ditzy blond when I wanted to be, and I could be a firey b!ich when I wanted to be. Either way I had a lot of fun!! Now, I am who I am and no one can make me feel or think any different about myself. Do the stereotypes still bother me, ya, but not like they used to.

I got another one, Brunettes are business like, do not care for children,want only a few and hate homemaking while blonds are good homemakers, love children and want more than five, and make good marriage bets. I cannot count on my fingers the numbers of times guys did not found me interesting as a potential wife because my hair happened to be brown, medium dark with auburn streaks. So not only was I supposed to be business type, I also flew off the handle once in a while and because of my hair color, I would not be good at home with a lot of children. That is what stereotypes did for me.

LOL I Know what you mean. These things happen because people like to and tend to generalize. You find one read head that has a fiery temper, then all do. One blond that does not act smart, than none does. Personally I prefer to form my opinions by knowing the person, not by whatever stereotype.

*Hanging my head in shame for fitting a stereotype* LOL, I'm a redhead, a stereotypical one. S/o is as well. I used to be blonde though and was definitely not dumb or airheaded....and before you ask my blonde was natural and so is my red. Don't ask me how or why but as I got older instead of just getting darker it turned red. I really don't like the stereotypes though. They're hurtful if you don't fit them because people misjudge you and they're also hurtful if you do fit them. Like me for instance. I have worked very hard to get my temper under control. It takes a lot for me to actually lose it. I can be very angry and wanting to explode for a long time before I can't hold it in anymore. But when people just automatically assume I'm going to just go off about the least little thing it does make me really angry...the whole "you want to see me mad? well this is nothing...you just keep going and you'll really see what mad is". I usually just tell the short version of where my screenname came from because it's easier but everyone at the race track learned about my fiery temper the night the guys couldn't get the flat tire changed but wouldn't let me help (I am "just a girl" afterall *rolling eyes*) After completely cussing them out for all to hear I chucked the flat tire up onto the tire rack and it proceeded to fall out and hit one of the guys I'd just tore into. Of course if you didn't watch the whole scene carefully it appeared that I threw the tire at him so word got around to NOT mess with me.

Stereotyping is now normal in our world. I guess if one person appears to another person as dumb and that person is blonde the other person would just generalize all blondes then! I think that's not proper and people should realize that there are still individual differences in thsi world =)

Hi betsyraeduke, I think all stereotyping is wrong, but it has been so ingrained in American culture. Just check out the media and how many starlets go blonde. It really is ignorant to use hair color as a factor in deciding whose having more fun, whose smarter, dumber, more tempermental, or whatever. By the way, would that stereotype make a yellow lab dumber than a chocolate one he he he he.