why brunettes are great

and blondes don't have to work so hard, because everybody treats them better.
No need to work hard, ergo, no brains. Thus the dumb blonde jokes.
My favourite was always the one that was rarely repeated:

What's the first thing a blonde does in the morning?
Answer: Goes home

I had figured all this dark/light thing out by myself. [self-pride]
And I realised that the brunettes have more soul, drive & desire
because they've had to work to get attention.

I'll let Chris Rock explain what type of attention I'm talking about.


[the man is brilliant. He just cuts through the facade. In fact, he points out how women are so put upon by men's desires. They see it every day of their lives!
Men have rarely get that feeling that they're being pursued like a fox pursues a rabbit. I gotta give women credit for keeping it together. I'd have gone crazy.]

That's why brunettes are seen as more dangerous:

more personality, more danger!
Like Monica Bellucci
[Danger! Siren on starboard. Impending shipwreck!]
[deep thoughts]
[if you dare]
[why, little red riding hood, what amazing uuuhm gifts you have.]

Another thing I noticed is that their facial features get washed out by all that light that they draw to them with the blonde hair.
Also, they do naturally get more attention. People look to the light.
I'm very observant. That's the flaw of the 'academic' personality.
When guys look at
beautiful women, I study the phenomenon, and write about it.
I study my own habits. Monkey nuts!

I seem to notice facial features, like jaw lines, and cheek bones on brunettes
because of the contrast.
And that contrast of white and dark is very alluring to men, as the research says.
It makes sense.
I can see the pull of the alabaster skin and jet black hair that made

Betty Page
Dita von Teese
so appealing.
It's the whole basis of Goth.

[how middling pastey-white chicks draw attention. One ring to rule the world...]

The UK's Independent newspaper has printed psychological data about people's choice of
mate.
it's boiled down to choosing

light or dark
and before you think it's racist, it means
light for their race, or dark for their race.
If you choose somebody from your own race,
you tend to choose the lighter people
because of the braod cultural equation of
light= pure
Or, if you choose dark,
you do so because it denotes the quest for
the sexy and dangerous.
This goes for both sexes, too. Wildness!

checkitout: [mind-blowing stuff]

Men, women & the secrets of skin colour

For him, the female ideal is fair-complexioned and pure; but for her, it's the wild, dark Heathcliff types who attract

By Roger Dobson the INDEPENDENT
Sunday, 16 March 2008

The fair maiden of myth appears to have a basis in scientific reality, according to new research. Scientists looking into attractiveness in men and women suggest that men of all races are subconsciously attracted to fairer-skinned women, while women are more drawn to dark-complexioned men.
The researchers, whose study shows that across different races, lighter-skinned women are seen as the ideal, say the attraction is driven by preferences based on moral assumptions.

Men are subconsciously attracted to fairer skin because of its association with innocence, purity, modesty, virginity, vulnerability and goodness, according to researchers at the University of Toronto. Women are attracted to men with darker complexions because these are associated with sex, virility, mystery, villainy and danger.
From Desdemona to Nicole Kidman, fair-skinned beauties have been celebrated by artists and poets for centuries. Meanwhile, millions of women have been drawn to dark, brooding males, from Heathcliff to actor Javier Bardem.

In an analysis of more than 2,000 advertising photographs of men and women, the researchers found that the skin of white women was 15.2 per cent lighter than the skin of white males, and the skin of black women 11.1 per cent lighter than the skin of black men.

Advertising photographs were chosen because almost invariably the models were considered to be among the most attractive people of the races and genders.

"What the research shows is that our aesthetic preferences operate to reflect moral preferences. Within our cultures we have a set of ideals about how women should look and behave. Lightness and darkness have particular meanings attached to them and we subconsciously relate those moral preferences to women," said Dr Shyon Baumann, a sociologist at the University of Toronto. In effect, a preference for Colin Farrell over Daniel Craig or Monica Bellucci over Michelle Pfieffer expresses a preference for danger.

The researchers say many judgements about beauty are made at a conscious level, such as about height, weight, leg length, and the shape of the nose and the mouth. "In contrast, other physical attractiveness ideals, including complexion... are made at the subconscious level," they say.

When they analysed adverts featuring white women only, they found that women with the darkest complexions were more likely to be in an advanced state of undress. They were also more likely to have a bared midriff, and only they are shown with bared feet or are implied to be totally nude.

The darkest-complexioned women in this group were also likely to be provocatively dressed, wearing underwear or similar clothing. Women with the lightest complexion are more likely to be conservatively dressed and portrayed as friendly, happy and honest.

The researchers say the scale of the differences between male and female skin colour selected for their attractiveness is too big to be explained by pure biology. "I contend the complexion findings should be understood as a product of deeply rooted and enduring cultural values," says Dr Baumann.

"My argument to explain the findings has two key features. First, it is based on the meanings that lightness and darkness have in our culture. Second, it highlights the links between moral and aesthetic judgements.

"Physical lightness and darkness are aesthetic characteristics that... exemplify the link between aesthetic and moral judgements. On average, fair complexions in women are the dominant aesthetic ideal because sexual modesty and conventional femininity are the dominant behavioural ideal for women. However, there also exists an appreciation for a darker complexion in women, though less common, and this less-common aesthetic preference appears to coexist with a view of such women as more overtly sexual... darker women are seen as more promiscuous."

Monica Bellucci [when you're right, you're right- Cos67]

Men who favour darker-hued beauties such as the Italian model-turned-actress supposedly have a subconscious urge for danger

Nicole Kidman [ick- Cos67]

It's one-nil for Kidman versus her darker-complexioned sisters because men just can't help preferring fairer-skinned women

Thandie Newton

No matter the race, it's the fairer the better when it comes to female sex symbols for the world's men

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Men see the 'Secrets and Lies' star as dangerous and sexy because of her darker complexion, research shows

Gary Dourdan
The forensic investigator Warrick Brown from 'CSI' cuts an attractive figure with his fair skin and green eyes