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lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 08:39 PM Apr 2013

I did a bad thing at the gym today

This totally fake bleached blond crossed the room, and, of course, every guy's head turned....


I was just walking past a young guy and I said:

(Here is the bad part)


"I know, I know, but it just bleach."

He pretended not to understand me and I said, "I saw all the men's heads turn..."

and he said:, "I was checking out the TV."

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petronius

(26,602 posts)
2. Nah, I think you did a good thing - it was a teaching moment
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 08:47 PM
Apr 2013

We guy-folk tend to think we're subtle and stealthy with our swivel-headedness; by letting him know he got caught, and if he learns from it, you may have saved him from serious consequences in the future...

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
3. Oh- I doubt seriously if any of them are embarrassed: They don't notice how fake that color was.
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 08:52 PM
Apr 2013

And they don't care. They're programmed to respond to these triggers. But it was a scary bright yellow.

My sister's hair is white-blonde, and was her whole life. The stuff I saw today was barbie-blonde. With black roots, of course.

 

Ter

(4,281 posts)
4. Fake blondes might not make good girlfriends,
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 09:58 PM
Apr 2013

but they're totally awesome to look at. Next time take a look.

 

Taverner

(55,476 posts)
5. She was looking for a friend with benefits
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 10:06 PM
Apr 2013

Let's hope she found it

And there is NOTHING wrong with that!

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
8. What makes you think they were even looking at her hair?
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 11:10 PM
Apr 2013

I'm not sure it's on the top of the list of things to check out!

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
9. I'm surprised
Wed May 1, 2013, 04:18 AM
May 2013


Hair Colour and Attraction - Is the Latest Psychological Research Bad News for Redheads?

Startling new psychological research challenges previous thinking that hair colour is merely about personal preference. Instead a massive consensus appears to exist on which hair colour is preferred, and there also appears to be such severe prejudice associated with the tint of your locks, this is possibly as harsh as racial discrimination.
For example, Nicolas Guéguen from the Université de Bretagne-Sud, in France, has just published a research paper entitled 'Hair Colour and Courtship: Blond Women Received More Courtship Solicitations and Redhead Men Received More Refusals', and it's published in the academic journal 'Psychological Studies'.
In the first study he conducted, female subjects, wearing blond, brown, black or red coloured wigs, were observed while sitting in a nightclub. In a second study, male collaborators wearing different coloured wigs asked women in a nightclub for a dance.
The intriguing results are that blond women were more frequently approached by men, whereas blond males did not receive more acceptances to their requests. However, in both conditions, red hair was associated with significantly less attractiveness.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mobileweb/dr-raj-persaud/redheads-psychology_b_1911771.html





Did the hair really play such an important role?


The really fake ones are interesting

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