Be Smart, Act Dumb
While the smart girls were busy fighting for their rights, and proving their worth, the smarter ones decided to act dumb. Yes, Smart is Over Smart and Dumb is the new Smart.
All their lives qualified, intelligent, sweet looking young girls have had one adversary standing in their path to glory: the Damsel in Distress. While they have the best ideas, she gets all the credit, while they toil away at work till 10 at night, she arrives the next morning and gets her work done by fluttering her eyelashes, while they scare away men by out witting them, she has the best of the lot fighting for a chance to help her out.
So who is smart here and who is dumb? Is the Dumb Blonde species actually far more evolved than we had considered them? Is all that make up actually camouflage for the smartest female on the block?
Armed with degrees from universities with intimidating names, with career paths that are the envy of their male peers, and a ridiculously high IQ level, the smart female is a scary lunch partner. She already knows that there was a bomb blast in timbaktoo 2 hrs ago, has an opinion on the documentary you saw last weekend, will give you honest professional insights on what was wrong with your presentation yesterday and already knows the punch line of your joke. Compare this with lunch conversation with a Dumb Blonde. She is attentive to every story you tell her, will ohhh and ahh at all the right moments, says “really, is that so?” in the cutest fashion and makes you feel like the smartest guy on the planet. Intoxicated with this confidence you are willing to take down the wall of Berlin at her beck and call, while she lazily files her already manicured nails.
So while the smart ones convene and laugh at the Dumb Blondes jokes, are they actually having the last laugh? Do they have the intelligence to actually recreate the mail architecture it self while they pretend to not being able to attach a file with their emails? Do they laugh silently as they watch the smart ones fall in their traps, demonstrate how to do things the right way and eventually end up volunteering to work on the weekend, while the Dumb Blondes enjoy their weekend in the spa?
With the effortless way, in which their schemes work, I have reason to believe that the Dumb Blondes must have a secret society somewhere. It is secret because by the rules of the Dumb Blonde Game, they are not allowed to get along with each other in front of others. This makes people believe that one Dumb Blonde is the enemy of the other, whereas they share all the insights gathered with each other at their monthly meetings. How else is each Damsel in Distress so oblivious to her surroundings but completely equipped to forward her own self interest.
Once you decide to play the Dumb Blonde Damsel in Distress Game, life becomes an easy ride. It is best to start early. So in play school, the boy sitting next to you, will give you his own fries, while he munches on your dry sandwich, Your grade 2 friend will let you cheat on her assignment and get a lower grade because the teacher thinks the idea is not original, your teacher will let you get off the hook because he seriously believes that your dog ate the fish which ate the homework, you will be the first one picked for all group projects and spend the rest of the semester sitting in the canteen and take the occasional coke to the ones actually working. The privileges do not end here: you will be the first one in your group of girl friends to get married, you will have the largest rock on your finger, while your “smarter” friends complain about the lack of decent men, you will enjoy coffee mornings while your kids are taken care of by the nanny, because your husband understands your fear that you will drop the baby. Your children will pamper you when they grow up because they want Mom to relax and take a cruise on the Mediterranean after a “stressful” life and you will happily play golf while your retired rich husband is lying in bed unable to move after his stroke.
So please line up and join the Dumb Blonde parade, being smart is not as smart as it used to be.
Wow girls can be evil
. Very insightful Tamania!
Acid. Nice.
What Adnan Bhutta would call the “saw-saala prograam” (i.e., aap ki jooain bhi saw saal kay liyeh jal gayee hain).
lol! Brilliant!!
I luved the way, the piece being so short, actually wraps up everything important in a girl’s life. Education, marriage, work children, everything. The humour works really well.
Good job!
hahaha! great idea. beautiful execution. i think a few words would say a lot here, because the smart ones are stingy with their words, aren’t they?
i enjoyed this immensely.
Not bad. But u mite actually be surprised at how quickly smart men pick out dumb blondes as defined by u…
hahahaha…so very true! good work Tamania!
Absolutely brilliant! I always suspected the allegedly ‘dumb’ blondes had some sort of secret cult. and their life cycle was particularly well described.
And I have to agree, smart women do get a raw deal.
You nailed it!
Thanks for the feedback
i appreciate it!
A refreshing and humorous perspective.
This is actually very true!!!damn these blondes!
its been long since i hav enjoyed an article so much, bravo…..