Women like edgy men. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and reality is real.
Women like men they see as an alpha. Hypergamy at its finest at play there.
Men that have tats and dress and present themselves in a certain way covey that energy to women.
No issue with ladies having preferences, but most women don’t have the innate ability of good discernment to judge a man that’s got that dog in him when it’s go time versus that man that’s presenting an image.
A lot of these men that many perceive as a square on the surface at a glance got more dog in them than those men that they perceive as the alpha type on the surface. Most cats I’ve seen that’s real about that life generally look like average brothers on the surface.
Moral of the story is women aren’t great judges of what’s inside of a man, so they run with a certain image and persona that isn’t always true to his nature.