Blonde, Blue-Eyed White Women

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^^^ Paris and Kim K taunted and harassed Lohan calling her 'fire bush'. That one was common at my HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

that one always made me laugh..no idea why.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

Wow.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

Also sexual harassment -- used to work at a diner and men would say the most disgusting things to me because I had red hair.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

Wow.

They used to really taunt Prince Harry about having ginger hair. Prince Charles was said to be disgusted after he was born that 'he was not a girl AND that he had red hair'. He kept talking about the unfortunate red hair. Britain is awful about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

Wow.

They used to really taunt Prince Harry about having ginger hair. Prince Charles was said to be disgusted after he was born that 'he was not a girl AND that he had red hair'. He kept talking about the unfortunate red hair. Britain is awful about it.

It was bad here too until the late 80s.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

Wow.

They used to really taunt Prince Harry about having ginger hair. Prince Charles was said to be disgusted after he was born that 'he was not a girl AND that he had red hair'. He kept talking about the unfortunate red hair. Britain is awful about it.

OMG. "in fifty years, it won’t seem normal to see Kick a Ginger Day or hear redheads being bullied because it’s not normal. It shouldn’t have ever been." Kick a ginger day???

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a natural platinum blonde, parents are Swedish. My hair is down to my waist and yes I get a lot of attention BUT mostly outside of the US. People in India literally followed me around. In the Middle East, people looked at me like I was alien, like they’d never seen someone like me. In Italy it was ciao Bella all day long, but truthfully they say that to anyone. Here in the US I really don’t think people care. When I wear no makeup and my hair in a bun, I look like a prairie girl on the farm because natural platinum blondes have white eyelashes and white eyebrows. Trust me I don’t wish this on my worst enemy. I would love to have mousy brown hair all day long and zero male attention, so I could have natural brow eyebrows and lashes. I would love to have olive skin and dark hair.

Oh, no! You poor thing! Ciao Bella, for real? And like you are an alien in the Middle East? Wow, my DD was turning heads in Italy too! And we lived in Egypt. But, DD is not a platinum blonde. She was a regular blonde at the time, and most of my friends were blonde many Dutch and English. So, here is the thing, people only touch the hair of kids, if you want to avoid this attention in the Middle East, maybe cover your hair??? As is the custom?
And cut the BS with "I would like to have brown hair," your post reeks of some idiotic narcissist love for your hair! At best, hair touching is slightly annoying, not the thing you do not wish on your worst enemy. How come no adults in my group had their hair touched in Egypt? We lived there for years! There is a bottle of color for you too, so cut the crap. DD died her blonde hair brown! It took less than half an hour!
I have never seen such a vapid post, apart from the one where she is Nordic blonde but not the U.S. blonde, people can tell her apart straight away by her looks and hoity-toity narcissism, which she called posh behavior or something. Are you her? I guess the stereotype is true!

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.

DP but you don't *have* to wear a hijab in any country except Iran and even that is iffy. The pp is just saying that if you honestly believed that your hair was causing a raucous, nothing stopped you from putting on a hijab.

Separately, I have a similar genetic makeup to yours and I have blonde hair, but in Jordan people asked if I was Jordanian. Iraq, Lebanon, etc are similar. Sorry, but we don't have the market cornered on the blonde gene. There are plenty of blondes in the ME. I think you just want to be different. Re: East Asian countries, yes, they are more racially homogeneous and being blonde is different. But in the Middle East, you're not special. I don't want to be mean but your insistence that people have never seen blonde people before seems a little ill-informed and offensive.

True there are blondes in the ME, but few, and even fewer natural. And you do stick out and draw tons of unwanted attention. Unless you are totally ugly, but even then. To say otherwise is laughable.

Because you are considered a sl*t! Seriously, cover your hair. Western women are stereotyped there just as the West has their own stereotypes. Not saying it is right, fair, but there I am seeing tourists at the pyramids in skimpy shorts and tank tops! If you don't want to draw the attention, do something about it if it bothers you so much!
There I was at the pyramids, being let in all the places that are free to Egyptians... why? I had a scarf over my head!

Women all over the ME don’t wear head scarves. You are poorly informed. Half of Lebanon is Christian. The Queen of Jordon doesn’t even wear one. And there are plenty of women not wearing scarves all over the Middle East

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Anonymous wrote:Another 50 year old of Mediterranean descent. Those women are washing out and we’re coming in to our own. I am always astonished at how washed out and dried out most natural blondes get in their 40s. Darker hair and oilier skin mean that we look much better in our 40s and 50s.

I'm a blonde and agree with you. Blondes age much harsher.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a natural platinum blonde, parents are Swedish. My hair is down to my waist and yes I get a lot of attention BUT mostly outside of the US. People in India literally followed me around. In the Middle East, people looked at me like I was alien, like they’d never seen someone like me. In Italy it was ciao Bella all day long, but truthfully they say that to anyone. Here in the US I really don’t think people care. When I wear no makeup and my hair in a bun, I look like a prairie girl on the farm because natural platinum blondes have white eyelashes and white eyebrows. Trust me I don’t wish this on my worst enemy. I would love to have mousy brown hair all day long and zero male attention, so I could have natural brow eyebrows and lashes. I would love to have olive skin and dark hair.

Oh, no! You poor thing! Ciao Bella, for real? And like you are an alien in the Middle East? Wow, my DD was turning heads in Italy too! And we lived in Egypt. But, DD is not a platinum blonde. She was a regular blonde at the time, and most of my friends were blonde many Dutch and English. So, here is the thing, people only touch the hair of kids, if you want to avoid this attention in the Middle East, maybe cover your hair??? As is the custom?
And cut the BS with "I would like to have brown hair," your post reeks of some idiotic narcissist love for your hair! At best, hair touching is slightly annoying, not the thing you do not wish on your worst enemy. How come no adults in my group had their hair touched in Egypt? We lived there for years! There is a bottle of color for you too, so cut the crap. DD died her blonde hair brown! It took less than half an hour!
I have never seen such a vapid post, apart from the one where she is Nordic blonde but not the U.S. blonde, people can tell her apart straight away by her looks and hoity-toity narcissism, which she called posh behavior or something. Are you her? I guess the stereotype is true!

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.

DP but you don't *have* to wear a hijab in any country except Iran and even that is iffy. The pp is just saying that if you honestly believed that your hair was causing a raucous, nothing stopped you from putting on a hijab.

Separately, I have a similar genetic makeup to yours and I have blonde hair, but in Jordan people asked if I was Jordanian. Iraq, Lebanon, etc are similar. Sorry, but we don't have the market cornered on the blonde gene. There are plenty of blondes in the ME. I think you just want to be different. Re: East Asian countries, yes, they are more racially homogeneous and being blonde is different. But in the Middle East, you're not special. I don't want to be mean but your insistence that people have never seen blonde people before seems a little ill-informed and offensive.

True there are blondes in the ME, but few, and even fewer natural. And you do stick out and draw tons of unwanted attention. Unless you are totally ugly, but even then. To say otherwise is laughable.

Because you are considered a sl*t! Seriously, cover your hair. Western women are stereotyped there just as the West has their own stereotypes. Not saying it is right, fair, but there I am seeing tourists at the pyramids in skimpy shorts and tank tops! If you don't want to draw the attention, do something about it if it bothers you so much!
There I was at the pyramids, being let in all the places that are free to Egyptians... why? I had a scarf over my head!

Women all over the ME don’t wear head scarves. You are poorly informed. Half of Lebanon is Christian. The Queen of Jordon doesn’t even wear one. And there are plenty of women not wearing scarves all over the Middle East

So nice! You were in the company of the Queen of Jordan? No doubt nobody touched your hair then since you had bodyguards.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

Also sexual harassment -- used to work at a diner and men would say the most disgusting things to me because I had red hair.

I LOVE red hair. I think it is so beautiful. I saw another mom on the playground recently and she had dark blondish red hair that was long thick and curly. She was wearing an emerald green coat. The color combination was so striking and beautiful

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a natural platinum blonde, parents are Swedish. My hair is down to my waist and yes I get a lot of attention BUT mostly outside of the US. People in India literally followed me around. In the Middle East, people looked at me like I was alien, like they’d never seen someone like me. In Italy it was ciao Bella all day long, but truthfully they say that to anyone. Here in the US I really don’t think people care. When I wear no makeup and my hair in a bun, I look like a prairie girl on the farm because natural platinum blondes have white eyelashes and white eyebrows. Trust me I don’t wish this on my worst enemy. I would love to have mousy brown hair all day long and zero male attention, so I could have natural brow eyebrows and lashes. I would love to have olive skin and dark hair.

Oh, no! You poor thing! Ciao Bella, for real? And like you are an alien in the Middle East? Wow, my DD was turning heads in Italy too! And we lived in Egypt. But, DD is not a platinum blonde. She was a regular blonde at the time, and most of my friends were blonde many Dutch and English. So, here is the thing, people only touch the hair of kids, if you want to avoid this attention in the Middle East, maybe cover your hair??? As is the custom?
And cut the BS with "I would like to have brown hair," your post reeks of some idiotic narcissist love for your hair! At best, hair touching is slightly annoying, not the thing you do not wish on your worst enemy. How come no adults in my group had their hair touched in Egypt? We lived there for years! There is a bottle of color for you too, so cut the crap. DD died her blonde hair brown! It took less than half an hour!
I have never seen such a vapid post, apart from the one where she is Nordic blonde but not the U.S. blonde, people can tell her apart straight away by her looks and hoity-toity narcissism, which she called posh behavior or something. Are you her? I guess the stereotype is true!

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.

DP but you don't *have* to wear a hijab in any country except Iran and even that is iffy. The pp is just saying that if you honestly believed that your hair was causing a raucous, nothing stopped you from putting on a hijab.

Separately, I have a similar genetic makeup to yours and I have blonde hair, but in Jordan people asked if I was Jordanian. Iraq, Lebanon, etc are similar. Sorry, but we don't have the market cornered on the blonde gene. There are plenty of blondes in the ME. I think you just want to be different. Re: East Asian countries, yes, they are more racially homogeneous and being blonde is different. But in the Middle East, you're not special. I don't want to be mean but your insistence that people have never seen blonde people before seems a little ill-informed and offensive.

True there are blondes in the ME, but few, and even fewer natural. And you do stick out and draw tons of unwanted attention. Unless you are totally ugly, but even then. To say otherwise is laughable.

Because you are considered a sl*t! Seriously, cover your hair. Western women are stereotyped there just as the West has their own stereotypes. Not saying it is right, fair, but there I am seeing tourists at the pyramids in skimpy shorts and tank tops! If you don't want to draw the attention, do something about it if it bothers you so much!
There I was at the pyramids, being let in all the places that are free to Egyptians... why? I had a scarf over my head!

You are a really angry person. I mean, all this directed at blondes?? Who hurt you? Please seek help. You are worse than the Indian man ‘blondes won’t date me so I hate blondes’ poster!

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Really? I'm black multiracial and have blue eyes (a lot of black/brown folks where my parents are from have blue, gray, or green eyes). I'd imagine it's even more common among actual white people.

Blonde hair blue eyed here- This is my absolute favorite combo. Black with blue eyes. The most beautiful men and women I have ever seen. Simply stunning.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a natural platinum blonde, parents are Swedish. My hair is down to my waist and yes I get a lot of attention BUT mostly outside of the US. People in India literally followed me around. In the Middle East, people looked at me like I was alien, like they’d never seen someone like me. In Italy it was ciao Bella all day long, but truthfully they say that to anyone. Here in the US I really don’t think people care. When I wear no makeup and my hair in a bun, I look like a prairie girl on the farm because natural platinum blondes have white eyelashes and white eyebrows. Trust me I don’t wish this on my worst enemy. I would love to have mousy brown hair all day long and zero male attention, so I could have natural brow eyebrows and lashes. I would love to have olive skin and dark hair.

Oh, no! You poor thing! Ciao Bella, for real? And like you are an alien in the Middle East? Wow, my DD was turning heads in Italy too! And we lived in Egypt. But, DD is not a platinum blonde. She was a regular blonde at the time, and most of my friends were blonde many Dutch and English. So, here is the thing, people only touch the hair of kids, if you want to avoid this attention in the Middle East, maybe cover your hair??? As is the custom?
And cut the BS with "I would like to have brown hair," your post reeks of some idiotic narcissist love for your hair! At best, hair touching is slightly annoying, not the thing you do not wish on your worst enemy. How come no adults in my group had their hair touched in Egypt? We lived there for years! There is a bottle of color for you too, so cut the crap. DD died her blonde hair brown! It took less than half an hour!
I have never seen such a vapid post, apart from the one where she is Nordic blonde but not the U.S. blonde, people can tell her apart straight away by her looks and hoity-toity narcissism, which she called posh behavior or something. Are you her? I guess the stereotype is true!

I have travelled to every country in the Middle East with the exception of Saudi Arabia, and the only places I wore a hijab were Afghanistan and Iran. In norther Iraq (Kurdistan) the guides told me not to wear a headscarf and I rarely saw any women wearing them, except for out in the county or older women in Erbil. In Lebanon people do not wear scarves unless you go to the religious areas. In Dubai, please. Unless you are from the UAE no one is wearing scarves. Egypt... come on. No scarves for tourists. Rules are very different for tourists and unless you’re in Iran (where the scarf is practically falling off) or Kabul, no tourists are expected to wear hijabs!!! I even went to Syria and the local women don’t all wear head scarves. If you want to hate blondes, go ahead, but don’t make up ridiculous reasons to justify your weird obsession.

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.

DP but you don't *have* to wear a hijab in any country except Iran and even that is iffy. The pp is just saying that if you honestly believed that your hair was causing a raucous, nothing stopped you from putting on a hijab.

Separately, I have a similar genetic makeup to yours and I have blonde hair, but in Jordan people asked if I was Jordanian. Iraq, Lebanon, etc are similar. Sorry, but we don't have the market cornered on the blonde gene. There are plenty of blondes in the ME. I think you just want to be different. Re: East Asian countries, yes, they are more racially homogeneous and being blonde is different. But in the Middle East, you're not special. I don't want to be mean but your insistence that people have never seen blonde people before seems a little ill-informed and offensive.

True there are blondes in the ME, but few, and even fewer natural. And you do stick out and draw tons of unwanted attention. Unless you are totally ugly, but even then. To say otherwise is laughable.

Because you are considered a sl*t! Seriously, cover your hair. Western women are stereotyped there just as the West has their own stereotypes. Not saying it is right, fair, but there I am seeing tourists at the pyramids in skimpy shorts and tank tops! If you don't want to draw the attention, do something about it if it bothers you so much!
There I was at the pyramids, being let in all the places that are free to Egyptians... why? I had a scarf over my head!

Women all over the ME don’t wear head scarves. You are poorly informed. Half of Lebanon is Christian. The Queen of Jordon doesn’t even wear one. And there are plenty of women not wearing scarves all over the Middle East

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I have travelled to every country in the Middle East with the exception of Saudi Arabia, and the only places I wore a hijab were Afghanistan and Iran. In norther Iraq (Kurdistan) the guides told me not to wear a headscarf and I rarely saw any women wearing them, except for out in the county or older women in Erbil. In Lebanon people do not wear scarves unless you go to the religious areas. In Dubai, please. Unless you are from the UAE no one is wearing scarves. Egypt... come on. No scarves for tourists. Rules are very different for tourists and unless you’re in Iran (where the scarf is practically falling off) or Kabul, no tourists are expected to wear hijabs!!! I even went to Syria and the local women don’t all wear head scarves. If you want to hate blondes, go ahead, but don’t make up ridiculous reasons to justify your weird obsession.

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.