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Would that be considered an insult?
People have said it to me in the past. While I don’t feel insulted when I am called that, I think that people are quicker to point out this physical feature as opposed to others that may be possessed by some other people.
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ginger is definitely an insult. i think.
you knew im bald?
Blondness is very rare.
im blond. so is my father and brother. so are about 15 of my cousins! so is my grand mother.
still rare
Yes, in general, it’s rude. Blondes are associated culturally with lack of intelligence, so it’s suggesting you’re a bimbo, even if that’s not what they mean. Calling someone by a derogatory nickname is against halacha. However, blondeness is also associated with beauty, so it’s possible the person was just trying to be nice or complimentary.
It’s not associated with beauty. “Blondie” means “person with blond hair and pretty much no other features as far as I can see”.
It really depends on how it’s said. Calling someone blondie, because you don’t know their name, isn’t derogatory, but when you roll your eyes and say, “she is so blonde” it sure aint nice.
It can be derogatory either way, but if you call everyone by obvious features, e. g. “you in the blue shirt”, “brunette”, “tall one”, it’s dfferent.
So thats why those shehakol “cookies” are called blondies!
Are you a brownie by any chance?
I always hated when anyone called me a blondie but it doesn’t happen often except when one of my magedei shiur called me a blonde and I just didn’t take it personally.
Farbycoff: Someone who uses what are commonly considered as pejorative or derogatory “nicknames” probably shouldn’t be a magid shiur or is in need of some sensitivity training by the rosh yeshiva. Its not a matter of “political correctness” or being governed by “liberal” or goiyeshe “norms”…its common sense that we shouldn’t characterize people by their physical attributes, positive or negative. What would you say if a bochur called his tall rebbe “Strech” or an obese rebbe “the groise reb”??
Re: Calling someone “Baldie”. You know what happened to the kids who called Elisha HaNavi that.
Gadolhadorah i was not focusing on shiur and he was trying to get me to focus but he forgot my name (it was early on)
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