Dumb Blonde

While searching through some funny commercials on YouTube.com, I came across one that not only made me laugh, but intrigued me. It was a commercial made by Mercedes Benz and was of a blonde woman in a library who goes up to the librarian behind the counter, a brunette, and quite loudly says, "I'd like french fries, a burger, and a milk shake." The librarian gives her a funny look and tells her she's in a library. Therefore, the blonde whispers to the librarian, "I'd like french fries, a burger, and a milk shake." Of course at this I laugh because blonde females have always been stereotyped as being dumb or stupid. The commercial then goes into saying that beauty is nothing without brains. As I mentioned, this stereotype has been around for as long as I can remember, how blonde females are dumb. Thinking further into it though, I realized that this stereotype has never been directed towards the male gender. In all actuality, both males and females can have blonde hair, so it isn't necessarily the blondeness of the hair that the joke is being made about, in fact, it's the gender of the person that the hair is coming from. So if it is a female that the hair is coming from that is being joked on, then it's the female gender in general that is being called stupid or dumb. I'd be willing to bet that never once would you hear a dumb blonde joke made about a male. For many, this isn't something that would be thought about and if anyone mentioned it they'd simply say it's just a joke and put it out of their minds. But it's hard to believe after all of this time, the female is still being joked on for not being intelligent, when in fact the women of our world are just as intelligent as the men.