As long as she's not dumb, we're cool.

LleeLlee said:

LleeLlee said:

Aren't you gonna even say "hi"?!

AnotherLoverToo said:

no.






























Hello hotness

LleeLlee said:

Ooooooh, you think you're sooooo smart!!

AnotherLoverToo said:

who me? naaaaa

Luckily I only know equally dopey men.
so its never a problem!

In my personal experience, men claim/think they want a smart woman, but when they get one, they find out we're a handful.

From what I have seen, I think guys love smart girls and really can't stand dolts. I have male friends that have dumped smoking hot chicks because they had the intelligence of a snow pea.

I think people usually want to be with someone that is on their level intellectually.

JustErin said:

Hence, Brad and Angelina.

bkw said:

I'll take whatever I can get.

SammiJ said:

Ouch!

No need to put anybody down.

Fauxie said:

don't mean to

but hey, women are the butt end of jokes all the time..

SammiJ said:

not all men are that shallow, ignorant and single minded



p.s. you said butt

Fauxie said:

i can do better than that!
ASS!
BOOTY!!
BUTTOCKS!!
RUMP!!
BOTTOM!!!
BUM!!!
GLUTEUS MAXIMUS!!!!!

SammiJ said:

Fauxie said:

my rack tops the one in your avvie tho, just thought i'd mention that

I definitely like smart women. And, nothing helps me determine whether a woman is "smart" or not than by talking to her and being around her, hearing what sorts of things she observes and ponders.

I think some men still like to feel like we are initiators in the relationship, like we're pursuing a prize. With some women, particularly smart ones used to having to be aggressive in their professional lives, hanging back enough to be pursued doesn't work or seems antithetical to their overall skill set.

So, as a previous poster said something about men find smart women "are a handful," that's not the whole story. That has less to do with intelligence, I find, than it does with male-female/aggressor/initiator dynamics within the modern world.

I love smart women. But, I tend to avoid smart, pushy women.

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SammiJ said:

But I'm crushing on charlotte's. You got dem hips tho.

Fauxie said:

SammiJ said:

Please forgive my sickeningly superficial manwhore phase. I give it a go from time to time.

Fauxie said:

well as long as my name remains in your sig line i suppose it's alright
*my rack's still better! *

There was a very interesting piece published by the New York Times Magazine on this very topic... here's a bit from it...

"A study by psychology researchers at the University of Michigan, using college undergraduates, suggested that men going for long-term relationships would rather marry women in subordinate jobs than women who are supervisors. Men think that women with important jobs are more likely to cheat on them. There it is, right in the DNA: women get penalized by insecure men for being too independent.

"The hypothesis," Dr. Stephanie Brown, the lead author of the study, theorized, "is that there are evolutionary pressures on males to take steps to minimize the risk of raising offspring that are not their own." Women, by contrast, did not show a marked difference between their attraction to men who might work above them and their attraction to men who might work below them.

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Women moving up still strive to marry up. Men moving up still tend to marry down. The two sexes' going in opposite directions has led to an epidemic of professional women missing out on husbands and kids.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist and the author of "Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children," a book published in 2002, conducted a survey and found that 55 percent of 35-year-old career women were childless. And among corporate executives who earn $100,000 or more, she said, 49 percent of the women did not have children, compared with only 19 percent of the men.

Hewlett quantified, yet again, that men have an unfair advantage. "Nowadays," she said, "the rule of thumb seems to be that the more successful the woman, the less likely it is she will find a husband or bear a child. For men, the reverse is true."

A 2005 report by researchers at four British universities indicated that a high I.Q. hampers a woman's chance to marry, while it is a plus for men. The prospect for marriage increased by 35 percent for guys for each 16-point increase in I.Q.; for women, there is a 40 percent drop for each 16-point rise.

On a "60 Minutes" report on the Hewlett book, Lesley Stahl talked to two young women who went to Harvard Business School. They agreed that while they were the perfect age to start families, they didn't find it easy to meet the right mates.

Men, apparently, learn early to protect their eggshell egos from high-achieving women. The girls said they hid the fact that they went to Harvard from guys they met because it was the kiss of death. "The H-bomb," they dubbed it. "As soon as you say Harvard Business School . . . that's the end of the conversation," Ani Vartanian said. "As soon as the guys say, 'Oh, I go to Harvard Business School,' all the girls start falling into them."



http://www.nytimes.com/20...yt&emc=rss

SammiJ said:

BabyGirl wasn't too pleased about being passed over for the rackage either.

applekisses said:

I would say that men are intimidated by women who are ambitious and successful, not women that are intelligent.

Fauxie said:

my rack would not even fit in that avatar

I would not want to go out with a guy that is less smart than me, I don't really understand how guys could do it. My husband always asks me what I think, he trusts my opinion even more than his own most of the time. And I feel the same way about him

ZombieKitten said:

Illustrator said:

we make a good team, together he and I are VERY smart

All the loves of my love, three or four - depends on how you count it, have been highly intelligent women. Thinking back at it, each one was basically the smartest woman I knew at the time.

I like the sexy librarian thing.