"The "blonde, blue eyed ideal" seems to be applicable to women, NOT to men".-beardedbruce

Yes, it appears so. And my comments in this thread about this standard of beauty have referred to females and not males.

It seems to me that because the USA is increasingly becoming "browner" in population because of immigration, interracial births, and births to African Americans, Latinos, and other "brown" people who are citizens of this nation or who live in this nation, it would benefit Americans to work through the realities, the implications, and the possible consequences of our traditional ideas about what constitutes female-and male- physical beauty.

To expand on what I said in my first post to this thread, it's my hope that this country and the rest of the world embraces the view that physical beauty comes in all skin colors, eye colors, shapes, and features.