Angela Carter said we love Marilyn Monroe because she looks like, if we grabbed her, she would bruise. Take that for what you will when you consider everyone’s favorite blond duo: Link and Zelda. They’ve got that “would like cute together” and/or “look like brother and sister thing” that we learned the hard way from Luke and Leia (eww, incest kiss), and part of that is definitely their matching elven features, their long blond hair.
We’re not even going to start on what it might mean for a hero to be blond in this day and age, given our perception of blond women. Instead, let’s talk about Twilight Princess and those speckles of brown that have worked their way into our heros’ once golden locks. Unacceptable! After he gets out of the water, Link’s hair is practically brown. What is the world of pure-bred young boys who end up saving the kingdom coming to?
Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games journalist who contributes regularly to publications like The Economist, Forbes, and The Village Voice. By day she's also a comparative literature PhD student at UC Berkeley, where she studies French, English, gender, sexuality, surrealism and perversion. You can reach her at [her first name and last name, all one big word] AT gmail DOT com.
December 19th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
No way, I love brunettes though. For my money, I’d rather see a doe-eyed Zelda with deep mahogany locks.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I’m a brunette man myself. I like my women to be not so bruise-able.
Damn, subtext.
December 20th, 2006 at 9:07 am
Angela Carter said we love Marilyn Monroe because she looks like, if we grabbed her, she would bruise.
That’s more than a little silly, but I always thought MM was over-rated anyway.
December 21st, 2006 at 6:33 pm
God bless those redheads…
December 26th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
God bless those redheads"¦
And god bless you, sir. God bless you.
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