Posted on 09/26/2017 5:54:13 AM PDT by wyowolf
We're just too clever to find a boyfriend! It may sound insufferably smug, but these women say their high intellect means they struggle to meet someone Natasha Hooper, 22, says men do not know how to deal with educated women She is worried about not finding love because of a shortage of educated men Becca Porter, 23, says a man factory worker turned her down for being too clever She says the sense of achievement derived from learning is alien to most men Andrea Gould, 41, believes her intellect has prevented her from finding love ‘I get the impression they’d rather date a girl without a degree, said Andre
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And, Thank God, this smug little tramp hasn’t procreated, and hopefully will not. Leave child making to more qualified females...ie, ones with brains and humility.
Hah! She studies African gender and sexuality from a feminist perspective and thinks she's educated! That's precious!
I have a few single women friends in their late 40s. i would agree with that. They are all divorced, but “cant find any good men”... some of their claims ARE valid... but some of it is just themselves... they want everything and give little...
I dont mean to be crude , but IF a guy is going to get a later stage gal, who wont give him sex, there are LOTS of younger ones that will... is sex everything? of course not, but most of my divorced friends suffered with that, and wont go through that again...
“Developing the ability to soup up cars is both masculine and potentially productive.”
Absolutely true! My own father was a self-taught mechanic, with further training in the Army and then Air Force. When he wasn’t in the hangar, he was training troops. After retiring from the AF, he made a good living using those skills.
My admiration for my dad caused me to look for the same skills in my future husband I suppose.
In the long term, men won't. For a few days though . . .
Holy smokes, I thought I was the only guy alive who knew who Oliver Heaviside was! My old man was an EE who got his degree in the 50s and when I went through my own EE education in the late 80s I tried to use his old books as references. However they were really different. Lots of "operational calculus" which was what they called using transforms to solve diff EQs algebraicly (i.e. as we do with Laplace transforms) but the transforms themselves were different. One was the "Heaviside transform". It wasn't the same as a Laplace transform though. I think he pioneered the field of linear systems analysis as EEs today know it, using transforms and transfer functions to solve complex diff EQs easily and indeed, he gets no credit because for fifty years mathematicians rolled their eyes and considered that "not real math".
One of his books had some biographical sketches of some of the forgotten men who basically invented electrical engineering including Heaviside and Steinmetz. Brilliant guys who made our modern world possible, but nobody knows who they are.
Steinmetz. Another of my favorites. He was a deformed dwarf who the immigration authorities didn’t want to let in to the country. George Westinghouse, picking up someone else overheard things and offered him a job and he was allowed in.
So far, at least, and certainly me.
Clever girl! Too clever for men. She just needs a smarter man . . . who is looking for a political debate on the first date.
Becca Porter, who graduated last year from Manchester University with a joint honours degree in history and sociology, and is now starting a masters in disability studies . . . ‘At school I wasn’t bothered about boys, but I’m at the stage where I’d like to share my life with someone.’ . . . Her longest relationship was with a car mechanic from Burnley last year. It lasted a few weeks. ‘He thought I viewed myself as a big shot,’ says Becca, who admits she found him ‘monosyllabic’. ‘Our conversations were mundane. When I tried to start an informed discussion — about religion or terrorism, for example — he had no idea how to react.
Again, a clever woman! What man doesn't go on a date to talk about terrorism with a woman who wants to share her life - and does that ever become a two-way street where she is interested in his life too?
Andrea Gould, 41, from Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, has two degrees and says her intellect has prevented her from finding love and having the family she longed for . . . studied English and German at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, then social policy . . . ‘Since then I’ve used online dating and tried to date only those who specified a similar level of education on their profile,’ she says. ‘But we had nothing in common. Men think I’m too serious. I want to talk about psychology and literature.
A third clever woman! I cannot imagine why she's not married.
Politics, terrorism, and psychology as dating conversation for a first date? Has it occurred to these women that talking about the abstract is a great way to avoid revealing who you are. Most men want to know who they are spending time with before stepping into prickly political topics.
I actually would talk about some of that... except the first one. But probably not on a first date... thats a bit deep.... esp me being monosyllabic and all...
They don’t need men. Men aren’t even needed to raise a family.
and PS the ‘ Patriarchal ‘ society we live in is responsible for the female habit of being catty towards each other.
Learned all of this from two 20 something harpies last weekend.
- then I was told I was a racist even though at no point was the issue of race or race relations ever brought up.
I can’t imagine any man ever wanting to spend time with such terrible human beings. At least one of them so filled with anger and hatred it was not hard to imagine her resorting to violence.
If I were young and dating I’d be well out of luck if this is a prime example of what’s out there.
I married a brilliant woman. Been with her over 4 decades. No complaints.
So to the topic of the article, Steinmetz was indeed a deformed dwarf but an absolute genius. Far more accomplished than any of the women in this article who bemoan the fact that they are far too clever for men. Would any of them take a world class genius like Steinmetz as a beau? My guess is that they would not.
Okay. Gotcha!
I grew up there.
Well there is a “Taming of the Shrew” mentality in many men. But men are more likely than women to exit a situation where the hassle is too large. The average man just doesn’t have the patience like women do, nor does he have the desire to please. Seduce yes, but please, no. The difference is the pay off. Men get a smile or sex as pay off. Women crave respect and attention. Sex to women is import but its priority and frequency are much lower.
I think it is more likely that their fathers (if present during their childhood) were also self-centered jerks, or their mother’s serial boyfriends were jerks. That is what they expect, so that is what they look for.
I hate the term “nice guy” because it somehow implies weakness. As if consideration for others and good manners and moral character is weak.
I married a nice guy and he ain’t weak.
More like the men they find “acceptable” have better options.
A highly-educated woman is unlikely to find a less-educated man acceptable. She’s also unlikely to find a lower-earning man acceptable. Meanwhile, high-status, high-earning men have lots of women displaying interest, and are willing to go for a lower-earning, less educated woman if she’s young and cute.
“In most of the cases though, I came to note that each had built up various ‘filters’...things about guys that they desired and wanted to avoid. It would have been simple if there were only five filters. But these ladies had advanced to the level of fifteen to twenty filters ...”
I’ve encountered the same phenomenon among single/divorced women with whom I have worked. The eligible men they meet are “too short, too tall, too intellectual, not intellectual enough, too plain, too handsome” (!), and on and on ... Some of them would ask me how mrs riverdawg and I ended up together. I told them we violated every “rule’ in the dating book. We would have never been matched up by a dating-site algorithm.
Powerful stuff huh?
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