Blonde jokes nearly always take the format of the blonde placing herself in a situation or making a comment that serves to highlight her supposed
promiscuity and/or lack of
intelligence, cluelessness and
clumsiness. The blonde of the joke is often placed in an unusual situation with a
brunette or
redhead. The emergence of a class of
meta-jokes about blondes ("meta-blonde jokes", i.e., jokes about blonde jokes) is noted. In a typical plot of this type a blonde complains about the unfairness of the stereotype propagated by blonde jokes, with a punch line actually reinforcing the stereotype. An example is about a blonde objecting to a
ventriloquist act packed with sexist jokes about blondes: The
British Essex girl joke, very similar in content, became popular in the late 1980s; it satirises working-class girls from the county of
Essex. ==Criticism==