If blondes are dumb, are peroxides dumber?

Well, scientifically speaking, blondes get more attention because the eye is naturally drawn to the light reflected off blonde hair. However, most of the guys I know seem to prefer dark hair and dark eyes. (And that includes my own boyfriend, the traitor!!!)
As for blondism in the workplace - I did read once that there has been research into hair colour and salary. Blondes, on average, are paid less than brunettes and are less likely to be promoted. Whether that is natural or peroxide, I don`t know.

The `70s was the decade of sexual equality

The `90s was the decade of racial equality

Let`s make the 00s the decade of hair equality!

I recall at least 2 surveys, one in a teen magazine, that suggest that more guys "prefer" brunettes
than blondes. I myself like blonde hair very much but, find that almost all colors can be attractive.
Catherine Zeta Jones and Tessie Santiago have gorgeous dark brown/black hair, for example. The
survey in the teen magazine, if I recall right, shows large proportions of guys liking various colors, so by
dyeing your hair, you may be missing a great opportunity for a date with someone who likes the natural
you. :) I think the natural color is also best because it goes with skin tone - I hate seeing bleach blondes
with dark eyes. The natural color of a girl`s hair is something unimportant to me - and me a "hair" person.
I notice hair texture, length and style, but whether it`s brown, blonde, red or black is just "icing on the
cake" for me.

Yesterday I saw Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage, being interviewed on TV. She has recently dyed her hair blonde (and cut into a fetching mohawk, see pic). She openly revealed that "I get served quicker in bars" and "People think my IQ is dropping at alarming rates" So, blondism is still alive and well - at living, it seems, still, at least in the UK.

Duke you bring up a good point. I really don`t understand why some people really enjoy this multi color hair thing all at once. YOu know the top is one color, the side another color and the underneath a third color. Never understood that attraction.

OK relax. Of course blondes aren`t dumb. There can be no correlation between hair pigment and IQ and it would be spurious to suggest so. But if a person were to dye their hair... could that be another story? Let me tell you what happened to my friend Tracey recently.
She is an intelligent single woman of 28 with shoulder-length brownish hair. She tried extensions but they didn`t work so took instead to dyeing it blonde. The change, she said, was almost immediate.
In nightclubs, she found more guys chatting to her than ever before. The trouble was, they tended to be the less-than-bright variety and their conversation was universally dull. She said that at work she found herself included in superficial chat about things like soap operas even when people knew she didn`t watch most of them. She said her boss appeared more patronising and didn`t take her as seriously as before, and the same applied to her family.
Now, my point is, I think most of that was in her head, and that it was mainly an element of self-fulfilling prophecy.

So my question is this:

If a woman like her dyes her hair blonde, half expecting to be taken for a bimbo, is she not, as it were, dumbing herself down for easier `consumption`? Of course they`ll say they are doing it because they like the look, and that blondes, like Rod Stewart said, have more fun.
But I sometimes wonder if, consciously or otherwise, they do so well aware of the ramifications.