Why do the trolls consider blonde hair "unmanly" in Frozen?
When the trolls are singing the Fixer-Upper song one of the lines is:
Are you holding back your fondness
Due to his unmanly blondness?
Why would they consider blond hair "unmanly," or consider this a big enough concern that Anna wouldn't want to date/marry him? At first I thought I might have heard the words wrong, but these words were confirmed by three different lyrics sites.
Here is the scene:
The lines in question happen about 1 minute into that video. The trolls are also clearly poking fun at Kristoff so maybe this was just some kind of absurd claim to elicit a response from Anna.
Best Answer
Hair darkens with age, so light/blonde hair is associated with youth. This is why it is seen as attractive on women, due to evolution she is seen as younger, therefore more fertile and healthier. Whereas men seem more 'manly' if they are older and wiser (more able to provide and protect). I'm sure you've heard about the whole generic "tall, dark and handsome" fantasy. - Yahoo Answers
If you have darker hair, you are considered more mature and manly (if male).
Actually, for this being in Norway, there is a shocking lack of blonde haired men in the movie. The Blonde map of Europe
Hans and the Duke of Weaseltown (and his guards) can be excused because they are from somewhere else (presumably outside of Norway).
Of the palace guards, maybe two of them have blonde hair, when really 5 out of 6 guards should be blonde haired based on statistics.
A group of gawkers as the snow rolls in, not a blonde head among them.
Here at least we see three very youthful guards who all seem to have blonde hair. This image may reinforce the idea of blonde being a youthful (and hence not manly) attribute for men.
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Answer 2
This may not be a serious line.
There are few if any reasons why the writers of the movie would create a culture opposed to blondness - and nothing about real myths, legends etc of trolls points to an opposition to a certain hair color. Tou can therefore assume that either
A) It's a joke for the audience, or
B) It's just the trolls poking fun at Kristoff to elicit a response
Answer 3
When I was a little boy I wanted to have blonde hair because I think that is the most beautiful hair color. I remember thinking that it was unfair that blonde hair is so much more common in females.
Now I know that approximately as many males as females are born with blonde hair and the surplus of females seen with blonde hair is due to women dying their hair blonde. So in most societies one will see a lot more women than men with blonde hair, even though approximately as many men as women are born with blonde hair.
Thus blonde hair tends to indicate that a person is female.
And if as a little boy I had learned about hair dye and started dying my hair blonde people probably would have thought that I was acting like a girl. It would have been considered effeminate behavior.
These may be the reasons why the trolls sang about "unmanly blondness".
Or maybe they sang that because "blondness" rhymes with "fondness".
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