“I wouldn’t take kindly to being told to do anything, but if I had my hair a certain way and my partner commented ‘I really like your hair like that’ it would be noted.”
But I don’t straighten mine, because it looks shit and doesn’t stay straight anyway if I do...
So he’d be looking at my curly hair and expressing his preference for hair that isn’t mine.
And equally you couldn’t start waxing or shaving pubic hair because he stated a preference for no pubic hair without at some point him looking at your pubes and going, I’d prefer them not to look like that.
I mean if people are doing it anyway and their partner goes, ooh that’s nice, fair enough, but then they’re not actually doing it to please their partner are they, they were doing it anyway.
I know that seems pedantic, but I’m just explaining why I find the idea of altering your appearance to please your partner problematic.
There is a difference between, I like it and also my partner likes it and I do it because my partner prefers it.