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Blonde jokes are a class of jokes based on a stereotype of dumb blonde women. These jokes about people, generally women, who have blonde hair serve as a form of blonde versus brunette rivalry. They are often considered to be derogatory as many are mere variants on traditional ethnic jokes or jests about other identifiable groups (such as Italian jokes involving Carabinieri). In some cases, jokes about stereotypically stupid people have circulated since the seventeenth century with only the wording and targeted groups changed.〔Giselinde Kuipers, ''(Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke )'', page 24, Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 9783110186154〕 Some blonde jokes rely on sexual humour to portray or stereotype their subjects as promiscuous.〔Karen Ross, ''(The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media )'', chapter 6, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, ISBN 9781118114223〕 Many of these are rephrased sorority girl or Essex girl jokes,〔 much as other jokes about dumb blondes are based on long-running ethnic jokes. ==Common traits== Blonde jokes nearly always take the format of the blonde placing herself in a situation or making a comment that serves to highlight her supposed promiscuity and/or lack of intelligence, cluelessness and clumsiness. The blonde of the joke is often placed in an unusual situation with a brunette or redhead. The emergence of a class of meta-jokes about blondes ("meta-blonde jokes", i.e., jokes about blonde jokes) is noted. In a typical plot of this type a blonde complains about the unfairness of the stereotype propagated by blonde jokes, with a punch line actually reinforcing the stereotype.〔Limor Shifman, Dafna Lemish, ("Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse" ), in: ''The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media'' 〕 An example is about a blonde objecting to a ventriloquist act packed with sexist jokes about blondes: The British Essex girl joke, very similar in content, became popular in the late 1980s; it satirises working-class girls from the county of Essex. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blonde joke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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