I know we all like blond jokes, but a good case could be made that they fall into the same category as this story. Where it used to be socially acceptable to make all kinds of racist/ethnic jokes against Poles, Jews, blacks, hispanics, whatevers, those have become socially toxic. For some reason, it's still OK to make jokes about rednecks, hillbillys and blonds. As we know, rednecks got that nickname because they work outside, in all kinds of weather, and they get red necks from the sun. They do the work that hipsters wouldn't and couldn't do. Hillbillys? We wouldn't be the country that we are without them. Without their pioneering, can-do, make-it-work spirit we'd still be New England. And, blonds - wow, using a physical descriptor to make fun of a racial/ethnic type? I thought that was totally off limits?