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i think it's quite stupid to bother avoiding sounding like anything... people who make accusations of such are simply looking for trouble.
Really? The theosophists claimed the dark-skinned people were less spiritually developed than light skinned people, rather similar to certain Fascist ideas. It is not stupid to seek to AVOID sounding like a reflexive racist and ensure that your analysis is actually grounded in fact when there is so much history of exactly this sort of argument being put forward for supremacist reasons.
So if I understand the argument being put forward here then, it is that masculine darkness arises mainly from male-on-male competition, and that in the ABSENCE of polygynous social arrangements, this competition will be muted, resulting in male selection for female lightness more or less alone.
Is there any evidence indicating that the population groups which became white caucasians were the earliest developers of monogamy? That would seem to be the implicaitons of the argument.
As an alternate hypothesis, I would suggest the same result would be achieved by the conversion of women to chattel property, in that their ability to select their mates would be radically curtailed, leaving male-selection-for-lightness to operate without a counter-selection by women.