RSSrazib is an Indian, I hope he doesn’t condone racism on his blog? I think afas and vito should be blocked.
The women are dying their hair as a response to social pressures. They don’t necessarily view themselves as prettier with blonde hair, but since they know the men will prefer the blonde hair, they dye their hair blonde. My point is, one day men might like black hair, the women will dye their hair black. Men haven’t always liked blonde hair (and I totally agree with razib’s points about how prehistorically blonde hair didn’t necessarily get selected for because of beauty. Furthermore, do dogs have preferences for the yellow colored dogs over the darker colored dogs? I wouldn’t know, but we’re all animals anyway, so it would be interesting to find out). On average Nordic men are attracted to “us” dark women a whole lot more than they are to blonde women. Black men are more into blondes than brunettes, and their main motivation for going after the blondes is the whiteness they represent (and probably a subconcious desire to eliminte the white race). They don’t care about brunettes, and would prefer a light skinned black woman to a white brunette. American men are presently lusting after Brazilian models who typically have dark skin and dark hair, and exotic features. This makes sense as they look nothing like ordinary Anglo brunettes, and are exotic in the same way blondes are (few in number, different). Asian women are the “new thing” and the reason given is their exoticness. In many ways a man going after an Asian is smitten by her exoticness in the same way as he would ordinarily have been with a blonde.
My final point is that Africans have always been offended by the sight of blonde haired, white skinned albinos. And yet a black (African) man would lust after the yellow hair of a nordic woman? You will never see a black man with an albino black woman no matter the facial features or hair type. My conclusion is it has nothing to do with an inherent beauty found in blonde hair, but rather a societal issue (didn’t ancient Romans keep blondes as prostitues but marry brunettes? But now the blonde is the trophy wife? The prostitutes now are the exotic dark skinned Thai women (number one prostitues in the world); who knows, they may become the beauty standard as blonde women have done)