As a lightskin man, I agree that women are more obsessive about skin tones than men. Men will make shallow comments almost as often regarding it but on a deep, social level, its women by far. And this is from personal experience.
As for myself, I have no preference to skin tone, only feature sets. I will say that I've noticed that I am usually attracted to the polar opposites of the scale meaning I will atleast notice darkskin and lightskin women before I notice the middle tones with all things being equal. I suppose its just the contrast to the spectrum. But p*ssy is p*ssy and as men, we generally will only concern ourselves with the level of attractiveness to said p*ssy. Women however take that shyt to heart and base their world views over it.