In My Day We Called Them Blue
When Rousseau said this—I think this is what he said, anyway—I assume he also meant women, because women are the ones doing most of the editing. If you had never seen a white person and learned about us only from romance novels, you’d think about 80 percent of us have green eyes.
Ironically, I think the reason they use Green yes so much is because Green Eyes are unusual, therefore exotic. So they want the person to seem special.
But if everyone is special, special is ordinary.
The somewhat ironic thing is that I really do have green eyes, and in real life, no one cares. According to romance novels I ought to have men falling all over me, and according to fantasy novels I ought to have magic powers. I was robbed!