Comments on: Blue eyes: the allure and the science

By: Abdul_UK

Abdul_UK — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:51:00 +0000

How silly is this study. By this logic – even brown eyed men will prefer blue eyed women. This is because if she cheats on him with a blue-eyed male – they will DEFINATELY produce blue eyed offspring. You might be wandering; well, what if she cheats on him with another brown-eyed male? But you cud ask the same silly question of the blue-eyed male – what if his blue-eyed spouse cheats on him with another blue-eyed male? That’s right – he has no way of telling. The real reason behind silly studies like this are some sort of inherent “prejudice”. Handsome and pure blue-eyed males – BEWARE OF THE LUSTFUL DARK-EYED males in your midst… they are there to steal your beautiful blue-eyed queens. BEWARE…. lol. Ridiculous. We desperately need logicians to analyse the “science” being done these days.

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:56:41 +0000

Well, my dad has brown almost black hair with brown eyes, and my mom had blond hair when she was younger, but it turned light brown and light blue eyes. I have red hair and green eyes. My brother has blondish brown hair and brown eyes. Our best bet for how that happened is that I have Irish (red headed) ancestry on my mom’s side, and a recessive red hair gene on my dad’s. (My grandmother apparently pulled out all of her red hairs- she had mostly brown hair, that she could find on her head in her mid-teens because having red hair at that time in France was seen as being a sign of the Devil.) But literally, no one on either side of my family has green eyes, not even hazel. (mine border on hazel, but they’re pretty green, they get more golden at the center)

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:36:58 +0000

As non-Norwegian blue-eyed male, I can say that I tend towards women with blue eyes. Maybe it’s because the odds of blue eyes are a lot lower than brown.

By: ansav

ansav — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:09:11 +0000

Even if you prefer a spouse with a particular color eyes, your kids’ eyecolor may not turn out as you expect.

My mother’s parents had five children in all, none with exactly the same eye color. My gradfather had brown eyes. My grandmother had blue eyes. My oldest aunt has blue eyes, my second aunt has pale green eyes, my late uncle had extremely dark (almost black) eyes, my mother has hazel eyes, and my youngest aunt has medium-brown eyes.

My father has brown eyes, but only one of my three siblings has brown eyes. The rest of us have hazel that consists of fairly dark green with brown around the pupil.

My brown-eyed sister and her brown-eyed Italian husband have 4 children. Three of them have brown eyes, and one has very blue eyes. Go figure.

By: MJ

MJ — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:40:14 +0000

I think all bets are off when there is a redhead involved. My parents have blue eyes, so does my brother. My eyes are brown but if you look under sunlight the same color as my hair (my hair is bright red)– this is not nearly as scary as it sounds.

By: ac

ac — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:35:56 +0000

I think its actually blue eyed women prefer blue eyed men! (or green, in my case)

By: natlynn

natlynn — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:12:50 +0000

My mom has green hazel eyes, and my dad has blue…mine are some strange mood ring of indecision, sometimes icy blue, sometimes tealish green, sometimes grey. My brother has a blue hazel that I’ve never seen on anyone else…

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:47:49 +0000

I have a brother and a sister and none of us have either of my parents eye color. My sister’s eyes are brown, my brother’s greenish blue and mine are blue while my mom has dark hazel eyes and my dad has greyish brown. Also, we don’t share their hair color. My dad has brown and my mom has dark blonde where as both my brother and my sister have red hair and I have light blonde. None of us really look all that alike unless we’re all together, then it some how works.

By: Dagfinn

Dagfinn — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:26:10 +0000

Speaking about Bowie’s eyes and Norway: His concert at the Norwegian Wood festival in Oslo was interrupted by a freak accident as someone in the audience threw a lollipop which got stuck in his eye. (With some googling you’ll find the pictures.)

Maybe Norwegians really do care more about eye colour than others…

By: Doc

Doc — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:13:31 +0000

Took the exam – said I should have had brown eyes. They’re not. They’re hazel, with blus outside shading to green with gold flecks.

My grandma said the gold was a sign I was a child of the devil… or perhaps a son of the Greenwood.

She never did like my father, hence the ‘devil’ comment.