Gothamist: Highlight Society

King Kong

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:30:37 -0500

Is this a new branch of Hitler's Youth? Like, Hitler's Fashionistas or something? Utterly ridiculous. This is a nice story by the Times, considering a subsequent story about Blacks leaving the city in record numbers.

Brett

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:44:51 -0500

This is the second time I've read widely debunked urban myths on Gothamist. I realize it's just a blog, but come on, is there ANY editing and fact checking going on here?

twinpeaks

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:24:50 -0500

I prefer dark hair and dark eyes. that kid looks like every other kid in Sweden

Samantha T

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:19:04 -0500

Why do I read this shit that really only pisses me off? Do I really live in a city where this is newsworthy? I'm so happy that I work in a field where women tend to be frumpy and serious (law), if a little insane at times.

MT

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:56:35 -0500

*Sigh* I was one of those children. But I lost the color as I grew older. Thank God Anderson Copper came around just as I went gray!

Natural blond

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:23:31 -0500

But seriously, attaching the idea of some larger (class-based?) significance to a certain hair color, and then devoting large amounts of time and money to trying to reproduce it (usually not convincingly) doesn't speak terribly well to that person's character or intelligence. Don't they have anything better to do with their time? Apparently not.

nisey79

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:14:33 -0500

I had a mass of curly platinum blonde ringlets as a child (alas, my curls have gone dark with age). My mother told me that people often asked her if my hair was real or if they could touch it.

brunette

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:09:25 -0500

and call their rich boyfriends "ATM's".

Natural blond

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:05:29 -0500

...or maybe the kinds of people who dye their hair blonde are vain and shallow to begin with...

phredd

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:42:14 -0500

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/blondes.asp Yep. It's been debunked, all right.

Anonymous

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:27:46 -0500

...or in the next couple centuries...

Anonymous

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:26:48 -0500

Weren't all the stories about blondes going extinct in the next century FALSE?