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25 Mar 2012, 5:05 am

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I think people form attraction based on the qualities they see in a person, I doubt hair colour has any relevance. I have never understood why people say opposites attract because I'm dark and I seem to appeal more to brunettes and dark haired women.


Because if you're someone that find certain hair color more attractive then by deffinition its a quality you are attracted to. Not the best but its something.

And i never understood that either.



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25 Mar 2012, 5:17 am

I'm not a huge fan of blonde hair and blue eyes. I don't really get what all the fuss is about. I think of the Cult of the Blonde as some sort of American thing.

Don't get me wrong though, there are certain things that I really like, and they're just as arbitrary as "blonde hair and blue eyes".



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25 Mar 2012, 5:19 am

MXH wrote:
Wolfheart wrote:
I think people form attraction based on the qualities they see in a person, I doubt hair colour has any relevance. I have never understood why people say opposites attract because I'm dark and I seem to appeal more to brunettes and dark haired women.


Because if you're someone that find certain hair color more attractive then by deffinition its a quality you are attracted to. Not the best but its something.

And i never understood that either.


I suppose you're right, it's easy to associate certain traits to colour based on our own perceptions. If I think of a brunette, I think of someone more subtle, thoughtful, reserved, modest and when I think of a blonde, I think of someone more outgoing, bubbly, light hearted but that's just from my own perceptions. Since I find more familiarity in the first set of traits I stated, maybe I'm more naturally inclined to be attracted to brunettes. Maybe we are attracted through the traits we associate with that color, for instance, many people say red means passion, fire, do we assume someone with red hair has a fiery character and feel initial attraction based on that? It's interesting.



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25 Mar 2012, 5:29 am

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Well, if it wasn't for people being attracted to unusual and interesting hair colors, there wouldn't be any blond people to begin with :) Red hair can be explained by Neanderthal admixture to the human genome, but brunette and blond hair are thought to be the result of sexual selection.


Red hair is a mutation of the gene for blonde hair.


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25 Mar 2012, 5:59 am

Declension wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of blonde hair and blue eyes. I don't really get what all the fuss is about. I think of the Cult of the Blonde as some sort of American thing.

Don't get me wrong though, there are certain things that I really like, and they're just as arbitrary as "blonde hair and blue eyes".


The cult of the blondes probably came into fashion around the 1960's, however they played Damsel in distress roles and that has changed. I don't know why but in film at the moment, blonde women seem to play the villains. Even in children's films, they are portrayed as cold ice queens.



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25 Mar 2012, 8:50 am

It's certainly interesting, to see media portrayals of "taste" change over my lifetime. For example, when I was little, you never saw brown-eyed women in women's magazines, even though blue eyes is less common among the human population. There were few brunettes, and those were white women with blue eyes.

FWIW, I'm an olive-complected Caucasian woman with dark brown hair and brown eyes. I'm ashamed to say that I don't really "register" blond people the way I do darker people. My eyes kind of slide right over them, upon first glance. I think there has to be something internal (or maybe formed in one's early years) that shapes ultimate preferences.