Get Ready: Magazine Claims Blonde Hair Is A Sign Of Belonging To A Right-Wing Cult Or Cabal

If you hope our political culture will quit getting dumber, keep hoping. It’s not happening soon.

As New York magazine has shown.

In a recent piece called “Political peroxide, Blonde privilege,” the magazine tried to make the case for being blonde as some sort of right-wing phenomenon.

The article, by Amy Larocca, opens with a history lesson on blonde hair.

Noting it began more than 100 centuries ago in northern Europe, “where the sun is weak,” blonde hair quickly became something “sexually desirable” as it spread to where it was rare. Additionally, in those locales, like ancient Rome, people utilized “pigeon s— and also a combination of alum, wood ash, and quicklime,” to become blonde.

“During the Renaissance,” Larocca added, “it was horse urine or lemons squirted onto the hair.”

Fast forward to America in the 20th century, Larocca argued, and we arrive at the “politics of hair color.”

“Attributes associated with whiteness — light skin, narrow noses — have dominated American beauty ideals as long as there’s been such a thing. Which means that blondness has always been … charged,” she wrote. “To be blonde was to be a good American woman, pure of intention and heart — which implied also, of course, that to be a good American woman, pure of intention and heart, meant being blonde.”

Then we get to the kicker.

“Fox News and Donald Trump have given blonde hair a new chapter: Now, blonde is the color of the right, for whom whiteness has become a hallmark,” Larocca maintained.

“Over the past decade or so, as inclusiveness became the hallmark of Obama-era liberals, the left found feminist icons in Rachel Maddow, Samantha Power, and Michelle Obama, who make no apologies for their failure to fit traditional ideals. But #MAGA, Fox News America is a place where all the classic signifiers of privilege and wealth work on overdrive: country-club-issue blue blazers with brass buttons and khaki pants, and above all else, for women, that yellow-blonde, carefully tended hair — a dog whistle of whiteness, an unspoken declaration of values, a wink-wink to the power of racial privilege and to the 1980s vibe that pervades a movement led by a man who still believes in the guilt of the Central Park Five.”

As proof of this, New York magazine posted a bevy of photos of “golden girls” from Fox News and the right generally.

Their hit list included Trump’s daughters Ivanka and Tiffany, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway and spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, and current or former members of Fox’s lineup, such as Megyn Kelly, Dana Perino, Shannon Bream, Laura Ingraham, Gretchen Carlson, and Kat Timpf.

Forget that former first lady Melania Trump blows up this particularly stupid narrative, or that it’s insulting, from alleged feminists no less, to conservative women such as GOP Govs. Kristi Noem, Kay Ivey, and Kim Reynolds, or former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley or commentators like Candace Owens and Michelle Malkin – not to mention being a slap at liberals who happen to be blondes, like U.S. Sens. Kristen Sinema and Kirsten Gillibrand.

Never mind, for example, that the current first lady, Jill Biden, once heralded by InStyle magazine as “woman of the people,” is as blonde as any on New York magazine’s list. And let’s not forget the Democrats’ 2016 rival to Trump and former first lady Hillary Clinton – whom Larocca mentions, by the way – is also blonde.

Conservative columnist Stephen Miller tweeted: “Here are CNN’s top four female anchors. What the f— is this s—?” while featuring photos of Alisyn Camerota, Dana Bash, Poppy Harlow, and Kate Bolduan.

Twitchy.com compiled a list of tweets some of which referenced Biden and Clinton, but also MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, another hero of the left.

As Twitchy lamented, “People actually pitch these articles to editors, who give them the go-ahead to write their 1,000 words or whatever, and then they get paid for it when some clown hits the button to publish it for public consumption.”

Meanwhile, our discourse gets dumber because it entertains such nonsense from people who never tire of telling you they are intellectually and morally superior to people like you.  

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