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Why Are Dark Skin Women Seen as Unattractive
by Chance Kelsey on Saturday, September 5, 2009
Dark skin women have often been seen in general as unattractive by men and women regardless of their racial back ground. Even many black men find dark skinned black women unattractive.
Yet many dark skinned black men are seen as sexy, masculine, and attractive. The reason being is that dark skin is seen as a masculine feature, and therefore, sexy on a man but not on a woman.
Light skin is seen as sexy on a woman or a man.
Thick lips, broad nose, and woolly coarse hair are also seen as masculine traits. So on a man these traits are alright in the eyes of many people but not very attractive on the average black woman.
So it really is not that all dark skinned black women are unattractive, it’s just that the skin color and features are seen as masculine that’s all. This being seen as masculine in features and color also applies to some caramel brown skin women too. If a medium Carmel brown skin black woman has thick lips, broad nose, and wooly hair she in general falls into the same category that a dark skin black woman falls into.
If a dark or caramel brown skin woman has thinner to medium lips, and thin to medium nose, and keep their hair looking nice then they in general are seen as nice looking. A light skinned black woman regardless of her features is seen as more acceptable because the lighter skin compensates for the broad nose, thick lips, and woolly hair.
Societies all over the world that have come in contact with whites — tend to hold a European standard of beauty. Therefore, being mixed to the point where it is visible is seen as attractive. All skin colors have their beauty, makes the world a more interesting.
Filed Under: Black Culture, Social commentary
Denise said:
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 10:08 amIn India, there is the same issue, and they have the European hair and noses. There are a lot of attractive dark skinned women. Slavery and colonialism is the blame. If you notice that most dark skinned women have nicer figures that lighter to medium complexioned women. There are also many darker and medium complexioned women that prefer lighter men. I really believe that it is mostly the darker women that are going for lighter men, which leaves darker men with smaller options. I live in the South, and most people in the south have what I called the “monochromatic complex”, meaning that they prefer to date someone that is darker or lighter than they are, in fact,some darker skinned individuals are discouraged from dating darker people.
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AP said:
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:43 pm.
That’s a very good point !!!
Another thing that I have noticed is that
many of the White and other non-Black men
who prefer to date and marry ‘Black’ women
seem to express that they personally feel
that the Black women who possess the most
‘African’ features (ex. full lips, curved
noses, generously-textured hair) are, in
their opinions, the “most attractive”.
Perhaps, the issue regarding the women with
“dark skin” being “seen as unattractive”, is
really more of one that mainly affects men
who are themselves endowed with the same
‘African’ features as found on these women.
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Chance said:
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 11:27 amIt is all about what you are attracted to, there are women of all colors, and among them some you will be attracted to, and others you won’t. It is an individual choice based upon whether or not you are attracted to that person.
Yeah India has it bad too, they just invented a skin lightening cream call fair and handsome. Many say it does what it says it will do.
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Nubian said:
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 3:29 amDark skin women are VERY attractive! Not manly looking..I have lovely Flawless Brown skin and i love it..I dont look at the media and the images on BET ,MTV to define me. We age Better Than your average “Light Skin Chick” And we have better bodies to, from my observation. The only Black men who despise us are the insecure self hating ones because obviously they see something in us that reminds them of themselves were like a reflection of them so to speak, so they go for the “Redbone” Or the Latina or Asian to make themselves feel better.. But me myself personally i looove my Black Choclate men I just wish more of them felt the same as we do, so we can keep creating these lovely shades of brown before we are extinct.
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Chance said:
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 5:01 amDark skin women have attractive women among them like all women. I have also noticed among women that come from ethnic groups that how brown skin and white skin that colorism exist among them also.
Colorism is universal. Sometimes so men don’t like women who are their complexion because they got issues with their own tone. I’m talking about me who secretively don’t like their color.
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Chocolate_Thunda said:
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 1:36 pmDark skin men are very insecure they think every dark skin woman go for Al B Sure type of brother thats why they are so color struck to spite us
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Chocolate_ Thunda said:
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 2:23 pmI apologize i was being harsh not all dark skin men date only light skin women to be spiteful i heard a couple of dark skin men said dark women only go for light skin men and thats why they date only light skin women but i can put this on all dark skin men some men just have their preference it just hurts to be left out all the time
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Chance said:
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 4:16 amWhen people are of different colors the opposite attracts by curiosity and a fascination with people who look different from you.
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curiousastowhy said:
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 11:36 pmIts like god….or ‘the creator ‘ of human beings created dark skin women as some kind of cruel ,harsh joke….I mean,like stated above…india has some beautiful dark skin women….they have european features etc….but yet and still its scientifically proven that most,like 90% of men…specially the younger ones still really want the fair skin women,no matter.
Thts why I dont see how any one who is Not a caramel skin down to dark skin,could say that
“dark skin women are making a big deal out of nothing”….when its proven that basically god created dark women…(seeminly )to be slaves…or once in a while ’sex whores’….its like out of every type of women, no matter….continuously its the dark skin(deep melanin)…women that are forever looked down upon,or shunned by the rest of the world.
Its like dark skin women are going to be extinct…ultimately the black race in general….but its just sad that there were no real time in this world tht featured dark skin women in any form of antiquity…..not even ancient egypt,most of the queens were light skin.
This is also why I dont see why black women can even believe in some loving god…or any god(dark women are alwys at church saying ‘praise god’)…when in reality god hates dark skin women.
sad.
Not complaining,its just baffeling god would do this…..foreal.
This is why I see why sammy sosa,and other dark women risk their lives by bleaching.
I just wish they come out with a good natural melanin eraser or sumthing,like they make stuff to darken white people,there should be a way to lighten blacks….well there is,but seemingly no one can get their hands on what sammy,or mike used.
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*** IS IT TRUE CHANCE PASSED AWAY? *** said:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 1:07 amIs it true that Chance passed away on December 29, 2009?
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Jen said:
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:50 amIsn’t it something how he posted filth on Blacks clear on up to Dec. 27th yet was buried on a Black man’s birthday…Jan. 15th. KARMA!
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JUST FOR JEN said:
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:49 pmJen, I only wish it had been YOU who passed away. Oh wait. You’re going to pass away too! At least there’s some comfort in that! KARMA!
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Anna said:
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:51 pmHi everybody. Does anyone have details on Chance’s passing? Can you post a link with info? Thanx.
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