By Armando Simón
Yes. Where are all the blonde men?
And more to the point, where are all the blonde men that were common in television and in movies? In fact, it used to be a common sight in movies to have an entire family made up of blonde actors.
In Hollywood, nowadays the truth is blonde men are an endangered species.
The unstated fact is that the cocaine-snorting, latte-sipping elites in Hollywood have blacklisted blonde men. They are discriminated against. Is it racism? Of course it is, but considering who are the people imposing this variety of racism, there will be no publicity on this from the media hivemind.
But perhaps you think this is hyperbole. If so, go to your television and surf the channels to see if you can spot a single blonde man. Or think back on all of the awful movies you sat through in the past five years.
But, I misspoke (miswrote would be more accurate). You do occasionally see blonde men in movies—as villains.
The actors playing Lucius and Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies had to dye their hair blonde in order to play their parts. That detail was not in the book.
In Karate Kid, the bully who beats up the kid is blonde, as are some of his companions.
In the Back to the Future franchise, the nasty villain is blonde, whether as a teenager or as an adult.
In The Addams Family Values, the psychopath is blonde (though female).
In the Schreck franchise, the evil Prince Charmin has flowing blonde locks.
In Game Night, the really creepy neighbor, though not a villain, is blonde.
In The Hunger Games: Snakes and Songbirds, a young President Snow is blonde.
In movie Moon Over Parador, Raúl Julia had to dye his hair blonde (it looked awful on the Puerto Rican actor).
In the pro-Communist propaganda film Havana, Robert Redford, a lifelong leftist, is the good guy and he is blonde, but the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista, who was in reality a black man, is portrayed as a blonde dictator.
In Star Trek2: The Wrath of Khan, the entire crew of the villains’ ship (who were supposed to represent the entire race spectrum of Earth) were all shiny haired blondes.
Get the picture? (pardon the pun)
The racist campaign in the United States against white people, particularly white men, is the reason not just for the blacklisting of blonde males as the leading man in films, but demonizing them as villains when parading them on the screen. I suspect that the bias against blonde men is because they supposedly epitomize “whiteness.”
It is interesting that blonde women are exempt from this racism. They are often portrayed in movies and television shows as partners of nonblonde men. In fact, being particularly partnered with a black male in commercials has become a trope (partly to encourage this trend in real life), while the white family doesn’t exist in commercials at all, as if The Great Replacement had already happened.
No doubt there are many virtuous reasons for this discrimination, but they have not been voiced, not yet. I, for one, am looking forward to hearing them from our enlightened liberals.
And, for the record, I am not blonde.
Though I wish I was.
Armando Simón is a retired psychologist, author of Stories for Lions and Other Felines, When Evolution Stops, and The Transgender Cult: Psychology, Politics, Religion and the Media.
First published in the American Thinker
