Posted on 06/20/2014 7:38:55 AM PDT by pinochet
I know that this topic is very controversial. Conservatives have always complained about radical feminism, and such radical feminists are over-represented among women with graduate degrees.
Are women without college degrees better than women with graduate degrees, when it comes to fulfilling the job of wife and mother?
Yeah, it really ain’t rocket science. Who wants to spend their entire life with an woman who, although attractive, has a heart that is essentially self absorbed?
Okay, let me clarify. Appart from Laz, who would want this?
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain.
Nothing wrong with an attractive woman, but things get old really fast living with anybody who is self centered.
There is a difference between IQ and education .
Bump that! (except 'Murry Mom', but she's long gone)
“My wife is genius level intelligent.”
Well, she married you so of course. (That’s how I play it.)
Here’s a secret… a “smart” woman chooses the husband not the other way around.
A smart woman IS virtuous and Godly, can cook, can let the man think he is the boss, dresses nicely, has eyes for only her husband ( in and out of the bedroom) and cares for and nourishes their children. She is smart because she knows that this traditional arrangement will make her life happy ( most of the time, life has its ups and downs) and will give children the best start in a world that is tough and getting tougher.
Today regardless of IQ or college degree most women are not smart when it comes to men, dating or the raising of families. Many women are depressed, angry and bitter because corporate ladder climbing, single motherhood and divorce has left them alone and unhappy. Doesn’t sound smart to me.
Trick question. Not all graduate and post-graduate degrees are equal.
My high IQ, Degree holding, feminist,conservative, scientist-turned-stay-at-home-mom wife says “maybe” :)
Real feminism isn’t about victimhood or blaming males/society. It’s empowering themselves as women - being self reliant and supporting their family (who supports them).
As someone else posted, they are not all mutually exclusive.
For years I worked in a department staffed by 50% college grads, and 50% high school grads. When the highly educated employess took on and eventually screwed up a project, they were told, “Thank you very much. We’re finished here.” Then the rest of us were called in to fix the mess and make the system, project, etc., work.
In a great many cases “happily married” is oxymoronic.
I knew a pretty and fairly successful lady years who did a lot with import export and had no idea of what or when d day was.
If society has “caused it to be legally and financially ‘unwise’”, then “society” as manipulated by the left is following Marx’s playbook. “Modern” men and women are products of their ideology in practice.
I just copied and sent this off to my husband. I have been all three hair colors but obviously...if I can laugh at this joke and send it to him.. He married me for my sense of humor. And that is one of the most important things one can offer. Otherwise life can be tedious and difficult! :)
“As for “IQ”, that’s meaningless since it’s based on standardized tests devised by psychologists.”
Regretfully, I must call Bravo Sierra on the above.
IQ tests are, as of yesterday at the close of the business day, the best predictor of ability to excel in a field of human endeavor.
Tiny tots are without guile and if their love for someone is genuine, they've usually earned it.
I know a woman who earned her bachelor’s after raising a family, still married to her only husband and is now a divisional VP headed for President of a large corporation, who cannot be convinced that Puerto Rico is not a foreign country. That, when she grew up in Queens. You’d think she’d know from exposure if anything else.
I married a woman that was a better person than I and it has buoyed my character.
I don’t remember her.
Men are not intimidated by “highly-educated feminist women” - we’re disgusted. An academic feminist is likely one of the bitterest, most hate-filled people you’re ever going to meet (along with other academics in made-up fields).
In contrast, my wife is the most intelligent woman I have ever met. She is often called a feminist because she has no problem expressing her views, but she is amused by the accusation. She is simply a strong, intelligent woman.
I suppose it sounds like I’m saying that attitude is more important than intelligence, but smarts are relative. I can’t imagine that a bright woman would be all that attracted to a dull guy, either.
As to young men avoiding marriage - isn’t that what feminists want? Young women ‘avoiding the trap of marriage’ (and heteronormative gender roles)?
“Conversely; the women we met in Tennessee are absolutely wonderful...kind, courteous, compassionate. Polar opposites.”
We moved to Tennessee (from California) in 2010 and agree with what you say. People here in general, not just the women, are “absolutely wonderful...kind, courteous, compassionate.” I’ll add “sincerely” to all of that. After California where people are friendly only if they want something from you, it took a while to realize they’re sincere, and trust the kindness.
Lol. I am not a brother!
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