TV's Aryan SisterhoodThey know only one hair color: blonder!

Remarks from the Fray:

…Yeah, and they also lie about what their skin looks like by wearing clothing. The male anchors do that too. and everyone lies by using studio lighting.

The male anchors lie about their true facial appearance every time they appear on television shaven. except Wolf, who lies by trimming neatly.

Next in the series: radio broadcasters lie by editing out their stutters and hiccups! Print journalists lie by letting editors and spellcheck software improve their prose beyond its natural state!

--historyguy

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...People of usually Nordic extraction who are blond are not necessarily using it to some advantage over others. It is just a trait. If your ancestors lived in the frozen north, they would have perished from rickets if they had been dark - unless -- and this explains the Inuit and those, like Catherine Zeta-Jones who are various forms of "black Celtic" (she is black Welsh, my mother's father called himself black Irish): the reason for the color difference has to do with access to the sea and access therefore to vitamin D in mostly fish livers and such (remember how children were given cod liver oil before milk was supplemented with vitamin D)?

You have to have practically transparent skin to let the sun in, such as it is, in some latitudes, so that your body can make vitamin D. Or as George Carlin put it, you have to be iridescent.

Perhaps women are so blonde on tv to get your attention if only 20% of Europeans are that naturally by adulthood. In childhood, the percentage is much, much higher. Blonde says "younger," therefore every woman who can credibly carry it off (even Barbara Walters) goes blonde.

The childlike woman is also an ideal (there is one radio personality in Boston who has this lilting girlish pipe, but I know for a fact that if you could see her, you'd know she was at least 50) -- non-threatening I suppose in our culture.

If there's anything annoying about the Fox women and their MSNBC competitors, it is their soap opera voices and tacky Banlon cleavage.

--omnibus1reader

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