My little brother and I both had blond hair and blue eyes when we were younger. "Cotton top" is what they called us because our hair was almost white, it was so blond. As we grew older, from about the age 4 or so, it started to darken until now we both have very dark brown hair and hazel eyes – go figure. Ok, ok, I have lots and lots of gray and color my hair, but it is as close to my natural color as I can get.

Several years ago, I decided to go blond again. I just wanted to see if the saying "Blond’s have more fun" was true. What I finally realized was quite interesting. Blond’s don’t have more fun, or maybe it’s just because it’s me and I already have lots of fun. But that’s not the interesting part – what I noticed was that people (i.e. men) took me less seriously than normal. It was a very subtle thing and took me a couple of months to realize exactly what was different in the way they treated me. I’m not talking about men I worked with and have worked with for 11 years. The men who have been in the trenches with me through grueling 16 hour days, the men who have snuck out back to smoke cigarettes with me (before you lecture, I already gave them up 2 yrs ago), the same men who have stayed up all night (at work, get your mind out of the gutter) to meet the deadline on a project with me. The men, who through my hard work and dedication, have earned their respect I’m mostly talking about acquaintances or men I just meet suddenly started kinda talking over my head to each other, as if I wasn’t in the same room and didn’t have anything important to contribute. They also started flirting with me more. This was baffling at first because I am very married, I mean VERY married and tell hubby everything. I came home each day telling him about the flirting and who was doing it. After a while – he said "You know why don’t you? It’s because you’re blond now?" The next month I changed back to the dark brown things went back the way it was. It’s a shame, because I really liked the way I looked as a blond and would like to go blond again. At least I will know what I’m getting myself into this time. So for all you blond’s out there – I could trade places with you if I wanted to, nah, nah.

P.S. this post isn’t meant to offend any blond female, but if it offends the males then so what – treat women for who they are, not the color of their hair.