Blondes 'to die out in 200 years'

lol Better late then never, I'm referring to my reply and not Blondes dying out.

200 years "they" say huh? I say humans won't be around this long. And we won't be living in space or on some other planet either, unless aliens come make nice with us heathens and neanderthals, our race, the human race, will not make it off this chunk of rock alive. I would guess redheads would go extinct before blondes. But this is just a stupid subject and I've already spent too much time here.

how can anyone profess to actually care about this? we will all be dead in 200 years.

only one in 20 humans are born naturally blond. of these only a quarter retain the blond 'neoteny' traits into adulthood.

they're not going extinct, they're too 'popular' and that alone is all it takes to continue the genes.

i used to be blond but i didnt like it so i started dying my hair and i went from blond to brown to red to black then black wi pink-purple streaks in it
(but to be fair the first time i dyed it was to kill nits when i was about 10 - it worked too)

what will they die out from? Leaving the straighteners on?

so blondes and redheads are going to die out huh. interesting.

the study found that bottle blonds are to blame for the demise of natural blonds? there is a very agreeable symmetry to that.

lol... then brunette girls will have to find something else to be insecure about.

Its hair, deal with it.

Wow, this surely is very important earthshattering news compared to all of the "non-news" posted here about important issues.

uh yeah if ya studied in science class it was a recessive trait.

I had blonde hair as a boy, but it turned brown as I went through "changes".

it's true. as a child i was a straight-haired and platinum blonde, aryan-looking kid. then i metamorphosed into a brown, somewhat curly-haired jew.

yeah, well a lot of people are born with blonde hair & it gets darker as they get older, then people color their hair to go back to their lusterous days & to cover up the gray,,ha ah haa, but not me, it's all natural, yeah, ha haa like fer sure m'kay.

This deeply troubles my heart ):

I just think it's funny how there are so many people that are testifying that blondes will never cease to exst because of their personal situation...being that they were born with blonde hair, yet one or both of their parents had dark hair....They still havent come to face witht he fact that it's a whole lot simpler, lol, their mom probably just had a thing for blonde dudes (affair).

Personally, I like redheads :D

Their much rarer though. I wonder how long before redheads become extinct. I'll tell my ex she's critically endangered.

i'm leaving my up vote to see what happens when an erroneous story makes the number one slot...

ah-HA!

STORY IS FAKE!

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/statement05/en/

(note that the bbc article's date is from 2002)

HMMM... is this a hoax??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_blonde_gene

If every cosmetic firm on the planet is nuked, maybe. People will go to amusing extremes to entice one another. It's what makes the world go around.

give me a black haired woman over a blonde any day.

But I like blondes the most.

Being blonde, I've decided to procreate with only other blondes, in hopes of fathering seven blonde children.

That'll extend our reign by at least a few more years!

who will have the most fun now?

nooooooo oh god noooooo

numinant, that's just crazy talk.

it'd be nice if people would just embrace their natural features. not that dying is a big deal, but it's sort of indicative of people's general inauthenticity these days.

and then if you don't engineer every aspect of your appearance, if you don't shave and pluck and dye and comb, you're dismissed as some slovenly hippie. we need a mammalian pride day.

He's obviously never been to California since there is a prevalence of blondes here.

I went to school with a high percentage of natural blondes and they've all had familes to pass their genes onto

All my sisters are blondes and they are are passing the genes on to the descendants in my family.

that's right bitch, i'm an endangered species!

Blonde hair and blue eyes, mmmmmmmmmmm, oh, thats me, (beating them off with a stick motions...)

Good. I'm a brunette fan myself.

I've read other articles saying things like 2% of the worlds population has natural blonde hair, but to say natural blonde people will die out is hard for me to swallow. My father has black hair brown eyes and a year round tan... my mom has brown hair and hazel eyes, and when she was pregnant with me she was expecting a dark baby, but I popped out with green eyes and blond hair (which is not so "baby blond" but darker now). Somewhere along the way I got some genes from some long gone relatives. So I guess what I'm saying is genes can be dormant, but there is always a possibility that something you weren't expecting is coming your way.

They won't die out....blondes, to most men it seems, are social goldmines.

variety is the spice of life - or something like that.

there will always be blondes, though. gentlemen prefer blondes. *rolls eyes*

I highly doubt that blondes will "die out" ....recessive traits always find a way to come through.

my mom and dad both have dark brown hair....I have copper blonde hair (used to be very light but living in sunless san francisco has made it a little less blonde over the years)

my mom has brown eyes (dominant) my dad has hazel...I have blueish green eyes.

Im definitely not the milk mans daughter, I just managed to channel the genetic traits of my grandpa and great aunt. The article says that in order to be blonde your granparents on both sides have to be blonde...only my grandpa on my dad's side was blonde and aside from my aunt I dont know of any blondes on my mom's side. So according to this article I shouldnt be blonde...but somehow I am.

i don't care either way. i've never dated blonde man though so maybe i tacitly prefer brunettes and i've never dated a bottle blonde man because why would i do that?

Blonde hair and blue eyes are not normal, in the sense that they are not the norm. In fact, world-wide, there are more homosexuals than there are blondes and blue-eyed people.

bondes might die out but the bush legacy will live on forever! lol

Humm... evolution....

There's sure a lot of studies done on hair color...I read a study a few years ago that suggested blonds were preferred because it subconsciously seems cleanly. I wonder if that was ever substantiated. I actually find myself being attracted to darker haired men (like Don Draper and Obamas speech writer).

I also wonder just how accurate these studies can be due to the fact that no girl wants to admit their hair color isn't natural....

Oh no, I love ze blondes

Blondes are highly overrated in the US. Most of the real ones are in Scandinavia, anyway. Hope you like the cold.

OMG, srsly yall?

Everyone is wrong in this article. Even the guy who disputes that blondes will die out is wrong. Look at genetic disorders! They are more rare, but they certainly don't die out, even though they present a "disadvantage". There has to be a lot of intentionality in order to really weed something out.

You can tell when someone has real blonde hair. I was born with blonde hair and people today comment on how good my hilights look. I have a hard time telling them i dont have hilights. Blonde hair has become a fashion statement, espcially bleach blonde hair.

"The researchers also believe that so-called bottle blondes may be to blame for the demise of their natural rivals.

They suggest that dyed-blondes are more attractive to men who choose them as partners over true blondes."

Hmm...I guess I'd never thought about that before.

Great find.

But we'll always have the bleach.

As a rare true-blond (rare in the US), strawberry blond no less (even rarer), AND I'm a man (even rarer), something about 'bottle' blonds gets to me. I just shout in my mind: faker!

Anyway, as far as women/men dying their hair blond, that has been going on since pre-viking times in northern Europe. It was seen as more desirable -for both men and women- to have blond hair, so they dyed it with lime.

If it is indeed to die out it is as it's a recessive trait, in my opinion.