Randy Cassingham's Blog

Posted by Bob, Long Island, NY on August 20, 2007:

Hey, at least you didn't call them blonde-headed hos.

You're certainly not racist, just differentist. I'm glad that people are not all the same - how boring that would be! People are going to make jokes about other people's differences for as long as the human race exists.

For the record, here's why blond(e)s are considered dumb and sexually easy - it goes back 2000 years: In ancient Rome, there was an influx of people from the north who tended to be blond(e). They were rather unsophisticated, sort of like people raised on farms still are. The men found work as laborers and soldiers, but many women could find work only as prostitutes. So many did that it got to be that any blonde woman was considered a prostitute. At one point, the law said that all prostitutes had to bleach their hair if they weren't naturally blonde. Thus the stereotypes about blondes has existed for over 2000 years.

Posted by Deby, Colorado on August 20, 2007:

There was NOTHING "racist" about talking about STUPIDITY. It comes in many colors and different genders. Too bad there are those who have to be "politically correct" which in itself (in MY estimation) labels THEM as just as stupid. WHEN was politics EVER paired with the word CORRECT???? I've not seen ANYTHING even REMOTELY CORRECT about ANY of todays politicians!!!

Keep up the great work Randy. It's too bad that those who can't do what you do have to knock it to feel better about themselves. If they would tend to their own business and stop hammering on everyone else they could probably have a much happier life!!!!

I AM a blonde and there has NEVER been a blonde joke that couldn't be turned into a brunette, red-head or even a guy joke....so GET OVER IT and stop with the looking for something to gripe about! What a PATHETIC person one has to be to come up with a gripe like this one!!

Racist----good grief!!! Stupid fits MUCH better and was the WHOLE gist of the story...Randy is SO NOT racist and by far the ONLY HONEST "journalist" I have EVER READ!!!

Posted by Patty, Hewitt, TX on August 20, 2007:

You called it already - the guy is a moron. There's nothing racist about your comments, and his were totally unfounded. So what else is new?!

Posted by Gerry, College Station, TX on August 20, 2007:

Hmmm. You might be accused of profiling, but racism is a little harder to come by. One could study the semantics of name assignment across ethnic categories for teenaged females in the Continental United States, and see some correlation between "Brittany" and "Blonde"; I suspect, from anecdotal evidence that it's correlated but not causal.

I'm wondering if Reader John in Florida might be sensitive to this because he fears similar profiling?

Posted by Jack/Georgia on August 20, 2007:

Think the person writing the comment should first go back to school or at least to a dictionary to learn the definition of the word racist.

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I'll save everyone the trouble. -rc

Racist:
  adj
1: based on racial intolerance; "racist remarks"
2: discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [syn: antiblack, anti-Semitic, anti-Semite]
  n
1: a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others [syn: racialist]

Posted by Dave; Niceville, FL on August 20, 2007:

I'm sorry to see that John is also from Florida. It gives me a bad name (like the people in south FL who aren't as smart as an elementary student and fill out a ballot properly.)

BTW, did you know that Florida is upside down? The farther south you go, the more north you get. (Not my original idea, but true anyway.)

In my opinion, people who see racism everywhere are just racist themselves. Why can't we take a joke any more?

Posted by Denise, NC on August 20, 2007:

That letter should have been left in the trash where it belongs, not dignified with a response like this.

Next thing you know, this guy will get his undies in a knot, crying discrimination because toilets and customers of prostitutes are called "johns".

Sign me,
Happily Blond (On Occasion)

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I know what you mean about leaving the letter in the trash, but there's nothing more illuminating than shining a light on ignorance. It makes people think, and that's a Good Thing. -rc

Posted by Douglas, Albany, GA on August 20, 2007:

We are quickly becoming the United States of the Offended. Have we no sense of humor left? Have we completely lost the ability to laugh at ourselves?

What race is blond? I mean, I'm blond and I'm still not sure.

Posted by Pete, Richmond VA on August 20, 2007:

How can this even be considered even remotely racial? How can John consider referring to someone as "blonde" the same as referring to someone as a "nigger"? I'm just not getting the connection between being blonde and being a victim of racism...

John, being blond(e) is NOT the same thing as being black, white, Hispanic, oriental, or whatever. There is NO country with exclusively blonde-haired people as far as I know and NO sort of "blonde culture" exists unless one wants to count the millions of blonde jokes floating about the net and in countless bars across the world. All you seem to have done here is prove the stereotype.

Randy, I'm simply not seeing anything racist or for that matter even totally derogatory to someone who is blonde in your title, article, or comments- you borrowed a movie title, so what? I felt it was quite amusing and fitting.

Posted by Meg in California on August 20, 2007:

So blondes have their own race? I've been blonde my entire life (not including some flirtations with red hair dye in my early 20s, and the odd Halloween colored hair spray), and was caught unawares that I was a member of a separate race from my parents. [My parents started as a mixed-race couple; he was blonde, she was a red head. Now both are gray]. So, if I experience hair-color based racism, I can become a brunette and all will be solved!

This reminds me of the Dr. Seuss book about Sneeches. When all the blondes become brunettes to escape oppression, will the natural brunettes turn the tables and then become blondes? Is this all a marketing ploy from L'Oreal?

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OK, I laughed out loud about your parents being a mixed-race couple, Meg. Priceless! -rc