"Gossip Girl" Study Case: Why Blond always Outdoes Brunet
Watching American TV shows, there are some noticable patterns that brunets are disfavored especially compared to their blond counterparts. I have seen some American TVshows and I thought that it was just a coincidence that the blond chicks. However, recently when I watched some TV show that is much hyped (overly hyped at times), I arrived to one conclusion that this is not a sheer coincidence. It happens repeatedly, to be honest. In this TV show called Gossip Girl that CW, there are several central characters
Girls with light brown hair color seem to have all what a girl wants (or at the very least, depicted in such a way that we think that way). Let's take a look at Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) and Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively).These Upper East Side (UES) girls are bestfriends but how each is described in the show is totally different. Blair is a brunet and Serena is a blond. On one hand, Miss van der Woodsen happens to be one of the 'it' girls (that's how Cecily von Ziegesar - the book author - calls her). She's a living Aphrodite. She's a girl that every girl wants to become and every boy wants to date with. She's described as having a dark past but trying to lead a brandnew more clean-cut life. Serena isn't a good student as she missed many classes where she should've attended. The worst, she did drugs too.
Blair Waldorf, on the other hand, is described as a girl who is too much status-conscious. What she thinks of is always about how to maintain her being immorally flawless and academically exceptional at single-sex private school, Constance Billard. Waldorf is acknowledged as the 'Queen Bee'. That's after Serena left the school. Things went differently once Serena reshowed up. Blair seems to have no choice other than relinquishing her throne to her closest pal and at the same time, her biggest foe.
On the episode "Bad News Blair", it's told that my previously mentioned axiom is eventually proven. Blair is confronted with some situations that aggravate her already-crumbling self-esteem. Blair might be a queen. When Serena comes along with her, Blair may be still a queen. She, however, is a second-rate queen. It starts when Eleanor Waldorf (Blair's mom) arrives home. Blair feels as surprised as she can be as she sees Serena and Eleanor sitting together and having brunch without waking her up. The confidence crisis escalates as Eleanor chooses Serena over Blair as her new model since Blair is as rigid as a twig (says the photographer). Lucky for Serena, she naturally enjoys the photo shoots more than Blair does, which is why the photographer Eleanor employs insists on picking the blond lass. The tension gets higher as Blair rubs the old wound by rehashing Serena's past sin (having sex with Nate, Blair's boyfriend).
What strikes me most is that the same thing happened to boys. Let's take a look at Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford). These typically classist difference showed as the two boys (who love Serena at the same time) happen to lead different lives from one another. Dan, who is a brunet, is a boy coming from low social strata. He managed to attend Saint Jude's private school (where Nate and the other UES boys go) because he worked hard to win a scholarship.
Nate seems to live an easier and more luxurious life, which he never enjoys though. This lad is a legacy and inherits a billion dollar asset from his mother, Anne. (who is a lso a blond). The feudalistic system of the school (and society) continues to put a strain on Dan's life when Nate is appointed the usher for the Dartmouth rep (=representative) at a mixer attended by Ivy Leagues universities' representatives.The thing is Nate isn't as smart as Dan and he also failed to show his enthusiasm in attending Dartmouth (Seeing Nate attending Dartmouth is Nate's dad's ultimate obsession). Dan, on the contrary, succeeded to make his best efforts to gain the usher position even though his obsession was turned down.
So what do you think, guys? Is it right that being blond is better than brunet in some way? I remember Reese Witherspoon's "Legally Blond". Perhaps is there going to be some producer wants to fund "Legally Brunet"?
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