Gentlemen prefer blondes, but writers prefer dark haired women

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Gentlemen prefer blondes, but writers prefer dark haired women Anonymous Sun Nov 21 01:31:16 2021 No.19435239 [Reply] [Original]

>In 2007, Neiderman, et. al. at Oberlin conducted an extensive review of literary works published in the west from 1750 to 2000, screening for the physical characteristics of heroines and female love interests in an effort to trace changing beauty preferences of high status or educated men. Intriguingly, they found that from the mid-19th century onward love interests were overwhelmingly described as slight, dark haired and dark eyed, a far cry from earlier western works which idealized fair haired, light eyed women. The authors offered several explanations for what they half-seriously termed the 'snow white' effect. First, growing Orientalism that led European men to see these features as exotic and desirable. Second, interest in the Mediterranean and Balkan Christians during the period of the Russo-Turkish War and Greek War of Independence, which brought a darker, 'Hellenic' woman into the public mind as a personification of Christendom and the west. Third, and finally, beginning in the late 19th century, the increasing proclivity of European writers to take Jewish woman as wives, mistresses, and muses - this leading to an intensification of the 'la belle juive' stereotype already present in literature at that time. Neiderman wrote: "the typical Ashkenazi woman's features, long disregarded, became a sort of niche beauty standard among Europe's elite during the Belle Epoque." Interwoven with all of this was a growing belief that women who fit the pale/dark archetype "felt more deeply, were more intelligent, and less superficial." In a 2010 follow on study, Neiderman asked 200 people who identified as heterosexual males and were considered high status in the creative fields to describe their ideal woman: the vast majority reported a preference for the same pale/dark type.

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