Oh boy. The fur is gonna start flying around here real soon. :) FWIW, I know Mr. Ex can't stand dumb women...or dumb people in general.
I honestly don't know many men who will actually marry a stupid woman. Date, certainly, but marry? I don't think so.
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This is pretty similar to the boss-secretary thread. Let me go get my popcorn!
This is big problem if we going to continue to have a civilization in the future. Intelligent women not having kids = the population gets less intelligent. The only eugenic factor today is the availability of cheap abortion to low-intelligence single mothers. Any yet most conservatives want to do a way with abortion altogeter. Go figure.
Bah. My wife is a brilliant woman. She went to college on a partial scholarship and graduated at the top of her class and has worked in embedded systems for satellites since her graduation. She's the best darned partner I could have ever wished for.
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').
Intelligence seems to make women career oriented and strongly motivated to work outside the home while kids are young. Both of those attributes detract from being an effective, stay-at-home, dedicated mother.
Darwinism is at work here: "intelligent" women don't procreate (as much). Said differently, "intelligent" women are really stupid. Truly intelligent women make men salivate and produce babies in large numbers.
Why would a man, if offered a choice, marry a career woman, except when he: 1) wants to be Mr. Mom; or 2) is was afraid of what might happen to his kids if he is hit by a comet; 3) needs a second income?
I don't think your average guy is afraid of intelligence, they just don't care much for attitude. Neither do women BTW.
From my exposure to women who have been in the education food chain for long, it seems the chip on their sholders grows larger each year. I believe that has been promoted by professors who didn't want women to be doormats for men. While that is admirable, it's been overplayed to the point of being destructive. Of course there are many exceptions, I'm just going by what I've encountered.
My wife is more and less capable than I in different areas. She teaches me a thing or two, I'll tell ya. On the other hand in some areas I stretch her abilities. That's healthy.
I've also been in long term relationships with someone who didn't challenge me. I think they resented it. In addition I don't think it was a particularly good medium for growth for me.
Give me an intelligent average looking person without a chip on their shoulder (I could care less about the money) willing to work together as equals, and I'll sign on when I'm free.
I don't plan on being free again.
Political correct claptrap. (s) Only stuuuuuuuupid women participate in the paternalistic, female slave inducing, baby factory, shoe robbing institution of marriage.
Smart women have children out of wedlock, only use sperm banks, hate all men, have lesbian lovers, and vote for leftists.
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or all women ever born were smarter than me.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again, "Intelligence is over rated!"
. . . 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.
Maybe they're just smart enough to avoid it.
And when they are 45, they will find that their careers are not interesting enough.
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.
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.
"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