Note: Please don’t get your panties in a twist reading this.
This is just for fun, and not to start a discussion about hair colour-ism or whatever -ism ish you want to call it.
MYTH: Blondes are more likely to fight for their rights
The Times claimed that natural or dyed, blondes are fighters.
Researchers claim that they are more likely to display a “warlike” streak because they attract more attention than other women and are used to getting their own way.
“What we did not expect to find was how much more warlike they are than their peers on campus.”
It showed that blondes were more likely to be treated better than other women and were more willing to “go to war”.
However, they were less likely than brunettes or redheads to get into a fight themselves – possibly to ensure they preserved their looks.
The research did confirm one theory: when male students were asked to rate the attractiveness of their female counterparts, blondes gained the highest scores.
I’m taking that last sentence with a grain of salt because the study was conducted in southern California, and I read this article here that states the study was never published.
Quote from the author: I have never done any research that shows blondes are more aggressive, entitled, angry or ‘warlike’ than brunette or redheads.” In fact, when the author did break his data down by hair color in actually showed the opposite effect! Apparently the Times Online were sloppy fact checkers, to say the least.
“We expected blondes to feel more entitled than other young women – this is southern California, the natural habitat of the privileged blonde”
But these statistics from a 3000-women study hold true:
- 1 in 7 women who changed their hair colour, felt more attractive, mostly when brunettes go blonde and not the other way around
- 40% hated their natural shade
- Almost 50% said they couldn’t imagine not having coloured hair
- 15% couldn’t even remember what their original hair colour was!
- ..and they usually start dying their hair at the age of 20
- …while trying 4 different shades in their lifetime
Blondes turning to dying their hair brown to be taken more seriously
Like Miss Scarlett here.
One in three women with light-coloured hair has dyed their hair a darker shade at a time when companies are in the midst of laying off people from the recession.
“The study shows brunettes do seem to be taken more seriously in the work place which is causing a rise in fair headed women darkening their locks.
“It’s incredible how changing your hair colour can alter people’s perception of you as well as making you feel more confident too.”
- 62% of people think brunettes look more professional than blondes in the workplace
- 31% of blonde women go brunette to look more intelligent in the office
- 38% of blonde women believe their hair colour has held them back career-wise
- …and probably the same 38% believes it has paid off, as they are now taken more seriously
- 25% of women in a survey of 2,500 women have been given a promotion
And how does hair colour play out in their sex lives?
Redheads, you are going to love this!
Researchers found red heads have the most sex – enjoying a romp three times a week, compared to twice a week for brunettes.
- 76% of people think brunettes are the most intelligent women
- 25% of men rated them as the most confident lovers
- Blondes are the most sexually adventurous, with 25% saying they’re open to trying new things
- 1 in 5 blondes has had sex in a field
- 1 in 20 blondes has admitted to having sex on a train
- Blondes are also most likely to have a one-night stand with 65% of blondes admitting to sleeping with someone and not seeing them again
- Brunettes are the least likely to have a one-off fling, with less than 50% saying they’ve had one
And in relationships?
- 44% of women with black (raven) locks, are most likely to be unfaithful
- …versus 33% of blondes
- 71% of men saying they prefer women with darker hair for long-term relationships
- 20% of brunettes have had 5 or more relationships versus 13% of blondes
- 44% of those with natural or dyed hair said their colour was the reason for their success
- …while 10% of blondes responded the same
It’s also been shown that Brunettes (seem) to earn more money
“Some hair colours tend to darken naturally with age and so brown hair can be associated with confidence and self awareness,” she said.
“Therefore many women who become brunettes often report a difference in reaction to them – for the better.”
- More than twice as many brown haired women are in jobs paying between £45,000 and £55,000 than blondes or redheads
- Brunettes earn on average, £4,250 more a year than those who are blonde
- 81% of those surveyed by Garnier, named brunettes as the most genuine
- 76% said brunettes were the most intelligent
- ..and 66% called them the least moodiest
So how are we going to solve this debate?
Don’t worry, the French are on it, because the Sorbonne is going to study whether blondes are really preferred by men
Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate blonde bombshell
No really.
Leave it to the French. 
“Why does the blonde exert such fascination and awaken so many fantasies?”
“Blondness awakens desire, probably because of the ambivalence it carries, from innocence to perversion, ” said organiser Marie-Camille Bouchindomme.
While she refused to second-guess the conference’s conclusions, Miss Bouchindomme, herself a brunette, said that there was no doubt that fair hair and desire were inextricably linked.
The great French poet Charles Baudelaire offered the “definitive link between blondness and desire,” she said, when he wrote: “La femme doit être dorée pour être adorée’ (Woman must become golden to be adored).”
“Blonde women seem to invite transgression, and thus erotism,” she added.
Saucy.
Sources:
Note to all redheads out there: I am sorry I couldn’t find more!
Other than the extra sex per week thing, I couldn’t find much evidence talking about redheads at all.
All I had was Blondes versus Brunettes, but trust me, I find redheads extremely striking as there aren’t many of you out there!
The closest article I found dealing with redheads specifically, was one about how sensitive you are to pain. Thanks, @sheisbliss!
Read: The Pain of Being a Redhead
Researchers believe redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color.
In people with brown, black and blond hair, the gene, for the melanocortin-1 receptor, produces melanin.
But a mutation in the MC1R gene results in the production of a substance called pheomelanin that results in red hair and fair skin.
The MC1R gene belongs to a family of receptors that include pain receptors in the brain, and as a result, a mutation in the gene appears to influence the body’s sensitivity to pain.
A 2004 study showed that redheads require, on average, about 20 percent more general anesthesia than people with dark hair or blond coloring.
And in 2005, researchers found that redheads are more resistant to the effects of local anesthesia, such as the numbing drugs used by dentists.
So, what’s your hair colour (natural or dyed)? And do the findings hold ANY weight?
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