Text Box: For Sale “So you’re breaking up with me because I’m too…blonde?!” Elle Woods, the main character in the movie Legally Blonde, looked across incredulously at her now ex-boyfriend, Warner. Elle knew he was planning to go to Harvard Law School in the fall, but she had never anticipated that his leaving would require him to get himself a new, East-cost WASP-y girlfriend. Elle, the very personification of the typical blonde, was obviously not fit to be that girl. Warner felt that he would look bad with such a beautiful Californian blonde, on his arm, now that he was a super-serious law student. Anyone who’s ever watched the movie Legally Blonde (2001) knows that blondes are the victims of constant stereotyping. What we assume about blondes is that they are all stupid, easy, beautiful, and popular; what we don’t realize is that the stereotype is all about hair color. Maybe the stereotype is rooted in truth, but that does not mean it applies to all blondes. Anyone can be dumb; it has nothing to do with hair color. There are plenty of people who are not of Einsteinian intellect who have brown, red, purple, black, green polka dotted, pink striped, or magenta mowhawked hair. Because of the original “dumb blonde”, an entire group of people are now prejudiced against simply because of their hair color. In past days, women were not supposed to be educated at all, so a dumb blonde would have raised no laughter. An ignorant woman was a better woman. Now, since women are

By: Anna Strong