Why are men often darker than women in couples?

[Flashball]

Darker ? I do not know. My father (northern French) has darker hair and eyes than my mother (who has hazel eyes and chesnut hair), but he may have had lighter hair at the time (he is 62 years old) and light or dark chesnut hair can turn almost dark brown or dark gray with age...

My dad has actually a more darker skin color than my mom, but that's not a comparable thing: my dad started working at the age of 15, so he was exposed to the sun pretty early, and a tan over several years is not something that comes off easily.

But I couldn't tell if this is a general thing.

There are also parameters that must be taken into account: many women have a tendency to dye their hair to find the color of their youth (childhood or adolescence), it is not totally "cheating" (since this person has actually had this hair color) but it is a distortion of reality. In addition, women have makeup that makes their skin color lighter ...

Men are more natural than women; in the North of France, many men were workers and exposed themselves a lot to the sun, in addition to working in the mine. It is therefore normal for a man to appear "darker" than his wife if the latter has been less exposed to the sun, if she tends to lighten her hair (with products) and her skin with make-up.

[slaog]

Of course women will say they prefer dark and tanned etc but that IMO is down to decades of Hollywood brainwashing. Look at all films from the 80s. Nearly all the bad guys were blond.

Blonds are rarer and whats rare is more valuable. Also saying blond men are more feminine is nonsense. Its the other way around if anything.


But leaving all that aside, women will go with their feelings a lot of the time. I don't think hair colour would be a deal breaker for them.

[Creoda]

Of course women will say they prefer dark and tanned etc but that IMO is down to decades of Hollywood brainwashing. Look at all films from the 80s. Nearly all the bad guys were blond.

Blonds are rarer and whats rare is more valuable. Also saying blond men are more feminine is nonsense. Its the other way around if anything.


But leaving all that aside, women will go with their feelings a lot of the time. I don't think hair colour would be a deal breaker for them.

Anti-Nordic brainwashing aside, most of the white Hollywood 'heart-throbs' are not particularly dark, they tend to look broadly NW European, reflecting the majority population, and I would estimate they have a higher rate of light hair and blue-eyes than exists in the white US population. The same is true for Australian media/actors.

More women saying they're attracted to brunets is not saying much, as brunets are far more common than blonds, even in Northern Europe. If only 20% of men are blond, and only 20% of women are more attracted to blonds, then blond men are not underperforming. If 25% of women prefer blonds in that instance then blonds are more attractive for their population share. Attraction is not just sexual for women either, security and trust is a big thing, in that respect blond/light-eyed men have an advantage, they would be perceived as safer and higher-status. 'Incels' and those types don't tend to be blond, at least I've not seen them.

[Tooting Carmen]

Anti-Nordic brainwashing aside, most of the white Hollywood 'heart-throbs' are not particularly dark, they tend to look broadly NW European, reflecting the majority population, and I would estimate they have a higher rate of light hair and blue-eyes than exists in the white US population. The same is true for Australian media/actors.

More women saying they're attracted to brunets is not saying much, as brunets are far more common than blonds, even in Northern Europe. If only 20% of men are blond, and only 20% of women are more attracted to blonds, then blond men are not underperforming. If 25% of women prefer blonds in that instance then blonds are more attractive for their population share. Attraction is not just sexual for women either, security and trust is a big thing, in that respect blond/light-eyed men have an advantage, they would be perceived as safer and higher-status. 'Incels' and those types don't tend to be blond, at least I've not seen them.

Brunet musclebound man and blond musclebound man. I am sure both are more-or-less equally popular with women:

[El_Jibaro]

Well, its true in both the case of my parents and in my own marriage. My dad is a swarthoid while my mom is fair skinned and cannot tan. My wife is also very fair skinned with blonde hair and light eyes while I´m more of a wog

I don´t know why this would be, something about opposites attracting or something something.