Study: Blondes Make Men Act Dumber

OMG This is hysterical!!!.....

Study: Blondes Make Men Act Dumber
Monday , November 19, 2007

While blondes may have more fun, a new study suggests that fair-haired ladies may be making those around them dumber.

Researchers found that men's scores on general knowledge tests drop when they are shown photos of blonde women, the Sunday Times of London reported.

Upon further inspection, it was found that the test subjects were not distracted by the light hair, but driven by social stereotypes to "think blonde."

"This proves that people confronted with stereotypes generally behave in line with them," Thierry Meyer, joint author of the study and professor of social psychology at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, told the Times of London. "In this case blondes have the potential to make people act in a dumber way, because they mimic the unconscious stereotype of the dumb blonde."

The study indicates a belief by scientists that stereotyping is a powerful driving force in interacting with others.

For example, previous research found that people talk more slowly in front of the elderly, the Times reported.

Snow

Up here in Ohio it is supposed to snow for the next few days. I love the first snow, it is so pure, so innocent. It made me think everything going on right now.

This poem came to me as I looked to the sky at the storm/snow clouds moving in as the sun tries to push its way between them and shine down on my face.

I am not much of a poet, but every now-and-then my mind lets me. Here is the result.

Snow



Snow falls down

Covering our hearts

Blinding our eyes


Like innocence



It covers the bad


And hides the ugly


Turning everything pure


Untouched



Like innocence


It stays that way


Until it is ruined


By people




Snow falls down


Onto a grave


Helping to hide the pain


Helping to guide


Us to justice



Softly the sun rises


Over fields of white


Glistening rays of hope


Like innocence from the sky

State of the world today

I know that Brandi isn't the first to suffer an untimely death, but what is going on in the world, specifically the United States today? In the last few months (and years) our news has been one report after another of a wife, mother, girl friend, sister, daughter, friend being murdered. Usually around the point that they have had enough with their significant others shit. They have a common thread: they want a better life for themselves and their children, and just when they can see that light at the end of the tunnel they are snapped away from those that love them. Why?

I know women have been abused for centuries, but why the sudden rash of killing them? Is it because women today are stronger then in previous generations and knocking them around wasn't enough so now they shut them up permanently? Are we such a feared species that we are being eliminated by the opposite sex? Why are we seeing countless stories of women being murdered? Is it because the ones left behind aren't afraid to speak up when their loved one has been wronged? Is it because we left behind are fighting tooth and nail to bring their perpetrator to justice, or at the very least getting their story out to the masses?

What is going on? If you have some answers please enlighten me. I pray that Stacy Peterson is found safe and sound as well as all of the others out there missing. I wish I had the power to start an Army of loved ones to take back our lives. An Army of angels trying to save those who need saving. I wish I had that power. Maybe one day. Until then I pray.

Update on the search for Brandi. Thank U to all that prayed.

Today the Texas Equasearch traveled to Kiln, MS to begin a search for Brandi through the wooded and often swampy terrane that surrounds our little town in South Mississippi. I logged on tonight to see if there was any word from the search since I am in Ohio and not close enough to go search with them. I really hoped the ending was different. At least her family has closure. I can't even phathom the pain and emptiness that her children, family and friends are feeling right now. I barely knew her and I am crying right now. In our small town we were all joined even if we weren't there every day we feel the pain of our "family" in the little town of Kiln, MS. I feel like a part of me is missing. I kept praying and hoping they would find her even though something in my heart had a bad feeling it wouldn't turn out well. I have conveyed my feelings to
Andrea on the whole situation so I won't rehash it here and tarnish this angels farewell. Brandi as you are watching down from heaven I hope that you can guide the police and justice system to who did this to you. God bless you and your family.And thank you to all my "friends" that sent well wishes and prayed for her safe return.Enough of my rambling between streaming tears...here is the story:Volunteers search Hancock County for missing womanAssociated Press -

November 10, 2007 4:44 PM ET BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Authorities believe a body found today (Saturday) in tall grass near a powerline clearing is that of a woman who has been missing since Aug. 3.Dozens for volunteers joined the search for Brandi Hawkins Laurent, a 29-year-old mother of 2 who was reported missing by her husband.The Sun Herald newspaper reported Saturday that a positive identification has not been made.However, sources told the paper that the body was tentatively identified from tattoos. Laurent had tattoos on her back and on both legs.Laurent's husband, Leo Laurent, told investigators he and his wife had argued before she left their home on foot in a remote area. He said she left with only the clothes she was wearing.The body was located Saturday by a small party of searchers on horseback about 10 a.m., off Road 528 in the Fenton-Dedeaux Road area.Although the autopsy and lab tests still remain, the disappearance of Brandi Laurent had changed before noon from an official missing person case to a possible murder.