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Brainy girls have marriage handicap
the Australian ^ | January 03, 2005 | "correspondents in London"

Posted on 01/02/2005 2:29:21 PM PST by FormerACLUmember

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To: FormerACLUmember
What always puzzles me is the high-rollers who marry sweet dumb bimbos . . .

. . . and then can't figure out why their kids are all dumb as rocks.

I've seen it happen time and time again. It's like these guys don't understand the basic principles of selective breeding.

41 posted on 01/02/2005 2:48:13 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: longtermmemmory

good point


42 posted on 01/02/2005 2:48:32 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Truthsayer20

No, it's a matter of intelligent kids being more expensive to raise. As soon as kids go from "asset" to "liability" the birthrates drop. Welfare queens have lots of kids because the kids are still assets... more government money.

I guarantee that if you repeal child labor laws, you'll see the birthrate rise quite a bit.


43 posted on 01/02/2005 2:49:11 PM PST by Nataku X (There are no converts in Islam... only hostages.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I suppose that's true, generally. I have some first-hand views of women who don't seem to have that sort of intelligence, unfortunately. Their children are paying the price.


44 posted on 01/02/2005 2:49:18 PM PST by exnavychick (Just my two cents, as usual.)
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To: Mamzelle
>>*shaking head*--is she even sixteen years old? Good grief...<<<

That is Britney Spears.

Anyway, intelligent women do marry, they marry intelligent men.

Forget this study, there have been numerous studies showing that people usually marry within their own circle(money, education level etc). In other words, Cinderella stories are very rare.
I am not saying intelligent men will not date a hot bimbo but most men who are smart and successful marry someone who is an asset to them and their careers. That is why you will never see a Bill Gates types marrying someone like Pam Anderson.
45 posted on 01/02/2005 2:49:27 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: FormerACLUmember
The USA is slightly better, but still very disturbed in the message we give young, intelligent women.

That's the problem. Women have gotten the sour feminist message for more than 40 years now. Being intelligent means being aggressive, unattractive or attractive in a very hard-edged way, pro-abortion and anti-child. On the other hand, men have also gotten that message and now feel free to be anti-family, pro-sleep over dates, and irresponsible (because, after all, she's going to take care of it all, right?).

The problem isn't IQ - it's the lousy messages both men and women have been getting for many a long year now, and which have become incorporated into our society so that kids get them as they are growing up. Especially if they go to public school...

46 posted on 01/02/2005 2:49:30 PM PST by livius
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To: FormerACLUmember
Brainy girls have marriage handicap

Maybe they're just smart enough to avoid it.

47 posted on 01/02/2005 2:49:46 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: FormerACLUmember
"Our society needs to allow/encourage intelligent women to be more fertile. Europe is a demographic nightmare are the educated women simply have no/few children, far less than is necessary to keep the population stable. The USA is slightly better, but still very disturbed in the message we give young, intelligent women."

I really don't know what the solution is. I can't blame intelligent women for wanting to be achieviers also in things other than the family life. On a personal level, my mother has an MD and PhD as well as a successfull medical career and still found enough time to have three kids. I guess its all about priorities.

48 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:02 PM PST by Truthsayer20
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To: FormerACLUmember
Women in their late 30s who have gone for careers after the first flush of university and who are among the brightest of their generation are finding that men are just not interesting enough.

And when they are 45, they will find that their careers are not interesting enough.

49 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:02 PM PST by freespirited
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To: AnAmericanMother

Yes, morons tend to breed morons. (Just look at the genetic decline of the Kennedys) It is not in society's interest for bright babes to be so infertile.


50 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:11 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: FormerACLUmember
Women, I believe, have a different sort of biological intelligence.

Oh. Lord help you on this thread!

51 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:13 PM PST by GVnana (If I had a Buckhead moment would I know it?)
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To: FormerACLUmember
A HIGH IQ is a hindrance for women wanting to get married,...

That's because a high Intelligence Quotient doesn't always translate into common sense.

You can get so well educated in America that your thoughts become detached from common sense. You can get so complicated in your thinking that the obvious isn't real to you anymore. This is the phenomenon known as "overly-educated", and it's primarily an affliction of liberals, but not always so.

When an "overly educated", and "common sense challenged", woman looks for a husband in the real world she's ill equipped for the task, and usually settles for a husband whose as clueless as she is.

52 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:23 PM PST by Noachian (A Democrat, by definition, is a Socialist.)
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To: Prime Choice
I think the thing that's keeping a lot of these "high IQ" women unmarried ain't their IQs...it's their personality (which has most likely become poisoned with anti-male 'feminist philosophy').

Mostly in agreement here. I have found that there are quite a few men who do not like smart women, but the men I have dated/married preferred women with a brain in their head.

53 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:36 PM PST by conservative cat
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To: 68skylark

"I love intelligent women. I just wish they were more interested in me!"

Kinda opening yourself up there a bit don't ya think?


54 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:39 PM PST by marajade
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To: FormerACLUmember

Brainy people should not get married. If they have some children, the children should be passed off to relatives for rearing. This should free brainy people to use their gift instead of burning their talents trying to cope with family life. Live in a fifty foot tower for 30 years like Copernicus. Brainy people should also not have to hold a job just to make a living, but should be free to think and develop whatever thoughts occur to brainy people.


55 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:47 PM PST by RightWhale (No dead animals)
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To: Truthsayer20

What did your father do for a living?


56 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:50 PM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Mamzelle
*shaking head*--is she even sixteen years old? Good grief...

Maybe she's young, but she's in Advanced Physics already.

57 posted on 01/02/2005 2:50:51 PM PST by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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To: freespirited

Exactly.


58 posted on 01/02/2005 2:51:14 PM PST by Gunrunner2
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To: FormerACLUmember

"And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES." --- W. M. Thackeray


59 posted on 01/02/2005 2:51:16 PM PST by Graymatter (Happy New Year FR!)
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To: Siamese Princess

I don't think this articl is about smart women or intelligent women. This would be better read as "career women" unlikely to marry.

This is just a veiled effort to conceal the reality of why some women will NEVER marry or even be asked to marry. Particularly with the majority of college students being women. Remember the old story of a woman more likely to be hijacked on a plane to Cuba than get married over 40?


60 posted on 01/02/2005 2:51:18 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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