Never heard of this before but learned about it when reading about zoroastrianism on wikipedia (i followed a link to read about diadems)
Never heard of this before but learned about it when reading about zoroastrianism on wikipedia (i followed a link to read about diadems)
I think it's okay to say that people don't match beauty standards. The blonde hair is definitely a factor though since this event used to be openly white-supremacist and now is just marginally closeted about that fact.
White supremacists’ obsession with blonde hair is so intriguing. I’ve always wondered: why blond? Why not red hair? Is it because blond is more closely associated with youth? (The blondest people I’ve seen are children and their hair usually darkens with age).
I get why they don’t like brown hair, though (i.e. because a lot of pocs have it). Kinda funny story: saw a screenshot of this racist trad wife account complaining about the men in her group only ever posting images of pale blondes, never brunettes. A literal call for DEI in a white supremacist group—the internet truly has it all. I guess it’s white ppl colorism lol.
Red hair is prettier,* but that's more associated with the Irish and other "lesser" peoples, rather than the nords and anglo-saxons, among whom blond was the designated bright color. This shouldn't be surprising since this is all rooted in Aryanism and the like.
I think you're also right about the youth thing, though it's worth noting that "dirty blond" hair gets noticeably brighter if you get a good amount of sun exposure, which I think is part of the "Americana" aesthetic of being tan with bright blond hair.
It's always really funny in a sad way seeing hard right people feel marginalized not even by a society that hates their bigotry but by a society that embraces it. For example, t's a perennial issue for Lauren Southern, a proto-fascist great replacement influencer type that she has trouble with the ridiculous levels of misogyny of people in her sphere. At least if I ever personally knew someone with these issues, it might be a good opportunity to reach out and say "Hey, maybe what is hurting you is a part of this ideology rather than an aberration from it" or something.
*Yeah I'm biased but come on, it's a more interesting color to occur on a human while blond is just a really light shade of brown when you get down to it, meaning it's fundamentally a difference it brightness between itself and all the shades it is supposedly more desirable than.
red hair was often associated with Jews which is probably why no white supremacists embraced red hair @whatup@hexbear.net