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Blondes, brunettes or red heads?
« on: February 09, 2015, 02:55:04 pm »
Don't know if this is a repost but I still love the question when asked :)

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Re: Blondes, brunettes or red heads?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2015, 06:41:29 pm »
red for me

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Re: Blondes, brunettes or red heads?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2019, 03:19:26 pm »



"Brunettes are fine, man, and blondes are fun, but when it comes to getting a dirty job done, I’ll take a redheaded woman.” - Bruce Springsteen

I researched this subject for a blog post, so at risk of copyright infringement litigation from myself:

I'm a natural blonde. OK, it's not so blonde these days but it was, though I also inherited the ginger gene from my dad. I have a bit of a weakness for wigs and when making a selection, I tend to choose to be a redhead more often.

I remember in a forum there was a discussion in which the men seemed to express more of a preference for brunettes but I suspected at the time the men were only saying that because there were mostly brunette women in the group and men know where their bread is buttered.

It seemed to me that more women dye their hair blonde, which may just be their preference rather than a learned advantage in getting male attention, and there's a preponderance of blonde female porn stars, which I suspected was a learned advantage in getting viewers and thus financial gain.

I was interested enough in these impressions to go looking for some research and there's quite a bit of it about.

In a poll conducted with 2,000 men by an adult social networking website, 33.1% said they find brown hair more attractive, 29.5% chose blonde, black polled 28.6% and red 8.8%.

A study by Viren Swami and Seishin Berrett at the University of Westminster, London, had a female subject sit in nightclubs. Over a few weeks she changed her hair color three times – blonde, brunette and red - while researchers counted how many men approached her during a one-hour period. 42 men approached her while she was brunette and 60 men expressed interest in her while blonde.

What men say and what they do already appearing to show some contrast. Imagine that!

Nicolas Guéguen from the Université de Bretagne-Sud ran a similar nightclub test but also tested with males wearing different hair colours. The blonde women rated higher to men, while the blond men received less acceptance from women for their requests to dance.

Previous research has also found blonde female door-to-door fundraisers receive more donations, blonde waitresses get more tips and blonde hitchhikers get more lifts.

So why this apparent bias?

Only 2% of the world's population is naturally blonde and on a primal level this may have led to them sticking out more during mate selection.

One possible explanation by Dr. Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham for the nightclub bias is “because it induced greater feelings of dominance or confidence in [the men], which in turn reduced their inhibition."

According to research by the City University of London using 1,500 males, 81% described the brunette as “intelligent,” while 67% thought she appeared “self-sufficient,” but also the most arrogant. Redheads were rated as the least shy, the most temperamental and the most sexually promiscuous of all hair colours.

Getting a dirty job done, the reds! Is that why it's my subconscious choice?

Peter Ayton, who led the CUL study, suggested the male idea of beauty has changed in modern times, saying, "They are looking for more intense, equal partnerships and appearance has a large role to play. It is even possible certain hair colours can indicate wealth and experience.”

They may be onto something.

Margaret Takeda, Marilyn Helms and Natalia Romanova from the University of Tennessee and Dalton State College recently looked at the hair colour of the top 500 CEOs of the London Financial Times Stock Exchange.

Of the 500 CEOs, 5% were blondes and 4% were redheads. Approximately 25% of the UK population is blonde and 1% redheads, so there's either an apparent favourable promotion bias for redheads or redheads have developed greater capabilities to compete with brunettes and blondes. Of course that's within the gender bias which only allows 2% of all CEOs to be female.

The researchers pointed out that if selection of CEOs is partly based on hair colour, does it constitute discriminatory prejudice, which needs to be legislated for?

If you guys are looking for wealth and experience, a redhead's clearly the best choice, though she may prefer to call it strawberry blonde.
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Re: Blondes, brunettes or red heads?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2019, 03:58:06 pm »
Blonde, easiest question I'll answer this year  ;D

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