Elle Hunt on being blonde

[WinterFoxes]

Was anyone else staggered that this drivel passed as national newspaper-worthy journalism?

When she wrote that, 'being blonde softened those hard edges' (of voicing opinions) because holding opinions while having blonde hair 'was implicitly tagged with LOL - just kidding'.

Having blonde hair makes serious opinion sound like it has Lolz -just-kidding built it? A woman actually thought this? Desired it? And writes uncritically about this viewpoint

I was baffled that any woman could be so inane, so openly, giddily misogynistic and then I wondered if this Elle Hunt person was actually a woman because no woman i have ever met has wanted to be taken less seriously due to her hair

Well, that is a very annoying read, but I don't think this is the transgender Elle Hunt?

Elle Hunt is a guardianista TRA but definitely a female woman. Even the Daily Mail would draw that line at that nonsense.

Is this perhaps some sort of joke? It's a bit like Polly Filler in Private Eye.

I did the opposite in my 20s (went from blonde to dark) and I did notice less male attention but I saw it as a huge bonus because it was the shitty, harassment and catcalls end of "male attention" that decreased.

I did lol (in a brunette way) at Elle implying dying her hair back brown again could be some kind of self sacrificing, anti racist act. Not disputing for a second that there's racism at play in beauty standards mind you. Arguably far more so in the pursuit of straight hair with zero frizz. But there was so little analysis or depth to this article, it felt as if the race angle was shoehorned in to virtue signal.

Isn't it?

Yes. She isn't trans, you're right, but the internalised misogyny makes my flesh crawl. Hey girls, blondes are bimbos, no serious thoughts in this pretty head! But way more fun. Lolz. Only brunettes are serious.
Why does this shit get a double page spread? The Guardian bullies out its feminist writers and we get this pap instead.

I’ve got naturally fair straight hair. I’m also a PhD scientist and I find her ideas quite baffling.

"shitty harassment and catcalls".
Sums it up for me.
I'm blonde, I've tried brunette, but I still get them.
I'm 21 and one creep said to me "lap it up babe you won't be hot forever", to which I said "well, some people won't be hot EVER"

I was a natural brunette before going grey.

At one point I dyed it blonde to keep up with regrowth from dyeing it back dark.

I got a totally different kind of attention from men. It was almost fawning, they actually opened doors an offered to carry stuff for me.

It was so weird and uncomfortable that I quickly went back to brunette. I hated it it to be honest.

Much prefer being an invisible grey haired older woman.

I think there's a bigger problem at work here. The legacy media are having difficulty in attracting sufficient heavyweight, investigative talent to put much serious journalism out now. So it ends up being material that can be compiled hastily from a quick scan of social media and a copy and paste from the press releases they receive. Consequently it ends up looking a lot like Polly Filler. Indeed, by comparison with this article, Polly Filler looks like a veritable feminist colossus. Plus I think they're reluctant to put anything too heavyweight in there because it'll look too serious and academic and put off their dwindling readership even more. I go and look for something on the internet by Julie Bindel if I want to read material that's interesting to think about. Not the Guardian, what's left of it.