[exnavychick]

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.

[FormerACLUmember]

Women, I believe, have a different sort of biological intelligence. They choose better lifestyles that allow them to live a lot longer, for one thing.

[Gunrunner2]

Got that right. . .play with them, fine, but never marry dumb.

The article has it wrong by placing the alleged drop in marriage for "smart" women. The simple reason may be these women don't want to get married as they went to school we indoctrinated in the ways of feminism and look at marriage as oppression. They bought into the Nike/Reebok "I-am-woman-hear-me-roar" and marriage is not a smart career move. This is the feminist thought process regarding marriage and is wrong. Many smart women choose to get married and choose to have a life and a family. The ones "at the top" are few and the costs for anyone reaching those heights pay a high toll personally. Not just women.

[Osage Orange]

The truly low wattage types...I can handle. It's the complete idiot's with degree's that fry my bacon.

[Criminal Number 18F]

...don't know many men who will actually marry a stupid woman. Date, certainly, but marry?

You mean "date" as a euphemism, right?

Is it just me, or does the article suggest that intelligent men want dumb housewives, implying that a smart woman would never want to be a housewife? I have seen some very intelligent women doing work in industry or government that was far beneath their ability. OTOH, I think a household benefits from intelligent management. Kids are real winners with an intelligent mom in the home.

OK, so call me a Neanderthal. [grunts unintelligibly]

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Navy Patriot]

This study is British, it appears.

As an American, I hope that the Brits have it backwards and brainy American women are the preferred catch.

[papertyger]

I honestly don't know many men who will actually marry a stupid woman. Date, certainly, but marry? I don't think so.

Oh, I don't know. I've never met a person that wasn't an absolute idiot in some way. My wife and I both have I.Q.s of about 140, but each have a forte' in very different areas.

[Hildy]

I don't think "stupid" is exactly what they're saying. It's just the degree of intelligence they're talking about here.

[U S Army EOD]

The problem with intelligent women is they seem to have this desire to marry stupid men. Most intelligent women I have known prefered to marry lower than they were on the brain power and education.

[TASMANIANRED]

Actually, I think the problem is more that the more intelligent women delay marriage and get taken out of the competition.

The first wave of marriage is the high school sweet hearts.

The 2nd wave is a guy you meet in college.

If you are of either gender , by the time you get to graduate school most people are already married.

When you get out into the work world it gets radically harder to meet single people.