I must be one dumb Irishman.
I take care of the important things. She decides where I work, the budget, how much money we make. where the kids go to school, where we live, and runs the household. I let her do this because I work on important things like, Iraq, the engery crises, next shot to mars, and future presidents.
There's nothing sexier than an intelligent man who isn't an @ss about it.
The presumption in that article is that something is wrong with the man, and why it there can't possibly be anything wrong with the woman.
In today's society, most American women aren't worth the time of day, let alone marriage. The system is biased against the male, and it is also biased against whoever is the more decent person in the relationship.
So if are a guy and decent, you get screwed twice by the "system" if it doesn't work out.
I just happen to be associated with a fair-sized, mostly male group of high-IQ people. A few of them COULD learn a thing or two from this, but most actually are pretty normal. And it was a sufficiently interesting premise to be an amusing read.
Mostly the article is a load of BUNK!
It generalizes all smart men into helpless nerds.
1) Look, smart men will not have the patience to sit thru hours of some woman's emotional problems. He can get sex from anywhere, there is no profit in wasting his time here.
2) Smart men are atrracted to smart women...not the average chick from the article. The two smart people can have smart conversations. If there is only ONE smart person in a relationship, then he must go OUTSIDE the relationship for stimulating conversation.
3) It was a smart man who coined the phrase, "Why buy the cow, when you get the milk for free." Apparantly there are not that many smart women out there.
4) CONCLUSION: Smart men are confident men. I've never known a smart man who had trouble with women.
So if I'm stupid, chicks will dig me? Or just stupid chicks?
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"This is why we turn to alcohol" ping.
The number one reason smart guys and nice guys finish last in the female department is a perceived lack of testosterone.
I've known several wonderful guys in my day, sweet, wonderful, brilliant, funny guys. My family adored them, my friends liked them, my parents gave the thumbs up as potential spouses.
Only one problem: they did not exude masculinity. Despite the protestations of "liberal" women, most of the women I know (particularly the conservative women) want a man they know will stand between them and danger. It's an instinctual thing; the need for a "protector" is hard-wired into our beings. This by no means precludes a woman who wants to face the danger herself, mind you, but at the end of the day, she wants someone who will either stand beside or in front of her when a situation becomes menacing.
I do not doubt these wonderful men from my past would do their best, but my feminine side did not respond to them. Not coincidentally, I married a man who is not only wonderful and intelligent, but is capable of beating the stuffing out of anyone who threatens me or our children.
At first glance, most people would dismiss him as a brainless brute; but for those who stopped to talk to him, they would discover he is a man with a sharp intellect, great instincts, multiple talents, a devoted father, and a very loving husband.
So for all those smart guys out there who bemoan the lack of female company, or who may presume that the "jocks" of the world have nothing to offer, a word of advice: just as brains can be very enticing, a woman (in her secret heart, anyway) wants to know that when a man takes her in his arms, he is going to make her knees buckle with his passion (if you get my meaning). A little testosterone is a good thing!
Silly. There's a vast difference between being "smart" and needing to be right all the time.
I always thought it was because they wear pen protectors, don't bathe regularly, and they describe everything in the metric system?
Not ten, just one.... they ain't that smart, LOL.
What an idiot.
lost me after the first paragraph ;)
So let it be written, so let it be done- Pope Pipeus I..
He's right, you have to hit their emotions. I had a girl fall in love with me because I saw her step in some buble gum and took the shoe from her hand and peeled it off with a piece of a paper.
How about: A disproportionate number of us are butt-ugly? Nature compensates.