Yeah its definitely a trend. Before Wesley Snipes and Pac it was trendy to boost light skin men. A lot black women find dark skin men more sexually appealing (due to the hypermasculine archetype that's pushed so heavily with dark skin men) but prefer to procreate and marry lighter skin men. Unfortunately its a byproduct of white supremacy and the belief that proximity to whiteness (or in this case lightness) equates to better socio-economic success.
I've had a lot of success with black women though so I'm not tripping but I've definitely dealt with a fair share of colorism from them.
As long as another brother knows than I'm good.
Im gonna clarify something too.
Being a dark skinned nikka, I've seen the difference in how chix treat the dark bros and the light bros.
But it ain't nothing like how dark skinned sisters get looked at and treated.
Like you say hyper masculine stereotype that is associated with dark skinned men, makes some women crave us...so we always gonna eat good pertaining to getting sex.
Dark skinned chix can get dikk But most men seem to prefer lighter or exotic looking females.
And see dark skinned women as unattractive.
Sometimes I feel like the only dark skinned brother that is mainly attracted to dark women