What do you look like

[Affliction]

I made a Somali skintone range display many years ago:



And yes, I'm aware that the girl to the left in row 2 is actually an Amhara but she fits the purpose of the illustration.

Funny how all the lightskins at the bottom are women. They bleached lol

 

[Shimbiris]

Funny how all the lightskins at the bottom are women. They bleached lol

It makes sense, to be honest. Women are on average, in every ethnic group in the world, the lighter ones. It's human sexual dimorphism. Something about male sex hormones makes men produce more pigment on average. This also weirdly tends to correlate with male and female sexual selection among humans where you notice that males, on average, will prefer a woman of their group who is somewhat lighter than them whereas women will, on average, prefer men who are darker or find darker features more attractive. Can't find them off the top of my head but there have been several studies showing this. There is some real truth to the "fair maiden" trope.

 

[pirater]

I made a Somali skintone range display many years ago:



And yes, I'm aware that the girl to the left in row 2 is actually an Amhara but she fits the purpose of the illustration.

I love how the bottom left one is a bleached women

 

[Affliction]

It makes sense, to be honest. Women are on average, in every ethnic group in the world, the lighter ones. It's human sexual dimorphism. Something about male sex hormones makes men produce more pigment on average. This also weirdly tends to correlate with male and female sexual selection among humans where you notice that males, on average, will prefer a woman of their group who is somewhat lighter than them whereas women will, on average, prefer men who are darker or find darker features more attractive. Can't find them off the top of my head but there have been several studies showing this. There is some real truth to the "fair maiden" trope.

Then why do so many ethnic women like cadaan men? Shouldn’t they be attracted to a dark man like babatunde

 

[pirater]

It makes sense, to be honest. Women are on average, in every ethnic group in the world, the lighter ones. It's human sexual dimorphism. Something about male sex hormones makes men produce more pigment on average. This also weirdly tends to correlate with male and female sexual selection among humans where you notice that males, on average, will prefer a woman of their group who is somewhat lighter than them whereas women will, on average, prefer men who are darker or find darker features more attractive. Can't find them off the top of my head but there have been several studies showing this. There is some real truth to the "fair maiden" trope.

it has to do with darker skin being associated with masculinity and lighter skin with femininity.

 

[pirater]

Then why do so many ethnic women like cadaan men? Shouldn’t they be attracted to a dark man like babatunde

dark hair maybe

 

[Affliction]

it has to do with darker skin being associated with masculinity and lighter skin with femininity.

Then why aren’t white men seen as feminine. They clearly are the lightest.

 

[Affliction]

dark hair maybe

Bro I’ve seen Asian women fawn over light hair and light eyes. So explain that.

 

[Shimbiris]

Then why do so many ethnic women like cadaan men? Shouldn’t they be attracted to a dark man like babatunde

Read what I wrote again. Of their ethnic group. It doesn't mean that a black dude is going to suddenly prefer an cadaan woman to his own women without some sort of societal conditioning probably causing that, for example. It just means you'll be more likely to prefer a woman of your own group who is somewhat lighter than you and the opposite goes for women. They've shown many times over that women like cadaan women will prefer brown eyes to blue on average or dark hair to blonde hair or somewhat more tan skin to pale skin. Darker traits are more associated with masculinity.

Bro I’ve seen Asian women fawn over light hair and light eyes. So explain that.

You need to understand the concept of averages. And of course weird cases like that where indhoyar women have a fetish for cadaan men or Madow men have a fetish for cadaan women is mostly modern conditioning. There is no evolutionary basis for why an indhoyar whose ancestors before the historical era would've never seen cadaan looking people would have some predisposition toward the look.

 

[pirater]

Bro I’ve seen Asian women fawn over light hair and light eyes. So explain that.

Then why aren’t white men seen as feminine. They clearly are the lightest.

man. I'm just saying it's a fact that women tend to prefer darker features over lighter features. lighter skin is associated with being feminine while darker skin is considered masculine.

 

[pirater]

I made a Somali skintone range display many years ago:



And yes, I'm aware that the girl to the left in row 2 is actually an Amhara but she fits the purpose of the illustration.

I would say the last row is not natural. everything above is natural non bleached. the first row is most common in Somalia but the second and third row is most common in the west

 

[Shimbiris]

I would say the last row is not natural. everything above is natural non bleached. the first row is most common in Somalia but the second and third row is most common in the west

Not sure if the last is entirely bleached but I cosign the rest. Especially about Somalia Vs. the west. Folks are always darker back home. They're out more and in that equatorial sun as opposed to where you lot in the west are in places like Minnesota and Sweden.

 

[Affliction]

Not sure if the last is entirely bleached but I cosign the rest. Especially about Somalia Vs. the west. Folks are always darker back home. They're out more and in that equatorial sun as opposed to where you lot in the west are in places like Minnesota and Sweden.

I swear some women back home are literally ghost white

 

[Shimbiris]

I swear some women back home are literally ghost white

The worst is when they do it with makeup and forget to do the rest of their body. I once saw an abaayo with the most light-skinned face I had ever seen and when I looked at her hands they were dhuxul black.

 

[Affliction]

The worst is when they do it with makeup and forget to do the rest of their body. I once saw an abaayo with the most light-skinned face I had ever seen and when I looked at her hands they were dhuxul black.

It just looks so fake and unnatural. I’d seriously prefer them to keep their original colour. Bleaching makes you more ugly in my opinion.

 

[camel collector]

what type is this?

 

[codewebsduh]

I don’t know what I am. Sorry for what I am wearing it’s just a Baati.






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You are lightskin lol

 

[codewebsduh]

I'm a darkskin nigga

 

[Ahmed Ato]

in the room

outside

 

[xoxoboredgirl]

Tryna leave a jareeer in a casket

was it workrate who said that