Nope, 'cause blonde (with the 'e') refers for female routing engineers. Or,
rather, females in general. But be wary even using to refer to females..
"Usage Note: It is usual in English to treat blond as if it required gender
marking, as in French, spelling it blonde when referring to women and blond
elsewhere. But this practice is in fact a relatively recent innovation, and
some have suggested that it has sexist implications and that the form blond
should be used for both sexes. There is certainly a measure of justice to
the claim that the two forms are not used symmetrically. Since English does
not normally mark adjectives according to the gender of the nouns they
modify, it is natural to interpret the final -e as expressing some
additional meaning, perhaps because it implies that hair color provides a
primary category of classification for women but not men. This association
of hair color and a particular perception of feminine identity is suggested
in phrases such as dumb blonde and Is it true blondes have more fun? or in
Susan Brownmiller's depiction of Hollywood's "pantheon of celebrated blondes
who have fed the fantasies of men and fueled the aspirations of women." The
corresponding masculine form blond, by contrast, is not ordinarily used to
refer to men in contexts in which hair color is not specifically at issue;
there is something arch in a reference to Leslie Howard, Robert Redford, and
other celebrated blonds."
Howard wrote:
> Does that mean that the reason that (male) blonde routing engineers
> get better as they age, not from experience but from male pattern
> baldness?
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