Gender bias in hairccolor?

[trillcat]

My Natural hair is a very dark gold blonde, dish water. I hate that term for my color hair, a guy sporting the same color would
just be called called blonde, why is this?

[tinywife]

I've heard guys' hair described as "dirty blond," etc. before, but for the most part I think most guys' hair is too short to really tell what kind of blond it is.

[virgo75]

I'm thinking because women dye their hair so many different colors that there has to be different terms for each color.

On guys there's: blonde, brunette/brown, red, black. lol

[elbow chic]

I think part of it is that guys with that shade are likelier to call it "brown." My ex-husband was a dark blond but he listed his hair color on official documents as brown.

Interestingly, my current husband lists his eye color as "brown" but if he were a woman I feel sure he'd call them hazel or dark hazel or something along those lines. No eyes with that amount of green mixed in can rightly be considered brown.

"Isn't that like a man?"

[squiggyflop]

well, men dont often see color like women do they. we have better color vision and they have better vision for tracking movement.. men have tons of words for types of movements (think of all those terms men made up for sports), and women have lots of terms for different colors..

[jaine]

I have noticed that too ... I don't want to pigeonhole an entire gender but the men that I've talked to about color talk about their colors in a very "discrete" way ... red, green, blue, brown, yellow, orange, purple, black, white. For women it's more of a continuum of colors ... teal, turquoise, robin's egg blue, superman blue, royal blue, sky blue, steel blue, coral, peach, mauve, tan, ivory, magenta, maroon, brick red, fire engine red, etc. etc... I could easily think of dozens of words I use to describe various shades of each individual color.
I'm really not sure if this is a difference in perception or just a choice of words... would be interesting to find out though.

[McFearless]

I have noticed that too ... I don't want to pigeonhole an entire gender but the men that I've talked to about color talk about their colors in a very "discrete" way ... red, green, blue, brown, yellow, orange, purple, black, white. For women it's more of a continuum of colors ... teal, turquoise, robin's egg blue, superman blue, royal blue, sky blue, steel blue, coral, peach, mauve, tan, ivory, magenta, maroon, brick red, fire engine red, etc. etc... I could easily think of dozens of words I use to describe various shades of each individual color.
I'm really not sure if this is a difference in perception or just a choice of words... would be interesting to find out though.

I've noticed it too.
I always just thought men could care less if their hair is medium light blonde with ashy undertones and natural golden highlights during the summer. Lol it just doesn't seem like something a guy would analyze.

[gthlvrmx]

Well uh...guilty! I mean, i used to be creative and try to precisely describe colors when i was little, but no one would understand And with hair, i am really blind to it unless someone points it out first.

[Mesmerise]

My Natural hair is a very dark gold blonde, dish water. I hate that term for my color hair, a guy sporting the same color would
just be called called blonde, why is this?

Well I'd call my husband a dirty blond he had platinum blond as a small child, but as he's aged it's darkened to a dishwater blond...which is a shocking term yeah... could also call it dark blond...but for some that conjures up more what I'd call "light brown" hair, like my daughter's... if my husband's hair actually grew a bit longer it might get a bit more sun lightened and look less dull .

But anyway, he'd call himself a blond...and while I can't disagree, I say it's dark or dirty blond (cause errm... it doesn't have any nice goldenness to it...)

[KittyLost]

well, men dont often see color like women do they. we have better color vision and they have better vision for tracking movement.. men have tons of words for types of movements (think of all those terms men made up for sports), and women have lots of terms for different colors..

I gree with this and probably the fact that men probably couldn't care less about different types of colours. I had an ex who was dirty blonde but insisted he was brunette.