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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
[more stuff on men and smart chicks]
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I actually have to say that I've found more women concerned with a man being smarter (in some way or another) than them than men. I think women, more often than men, feel they to some extent take on the status of their mate, and women more frequently consider "smart" to be a status-enhancing feature in a mate (while men might more usually think "great tits" to reflect well on their mate-attracting abilities and thus status).
Caveat: there is a common breed of alpha-male (for example, that "asshole in law school" guy) who feels he has to be the smartest person in the room. Some alpha guys will see a "smart/superior" woman as an excellent status enhancing trophy, but many that I've known definitely feel their alpha status threatened by the presence of people with superior qualities - be they male or female.
Perhaps you are mostly noting the selection habits of alpha males, which would make sense given whom you are likely to come into more contact with in our [sarcasm = dripping] rarefied upper middle class "professional" circles [/sarcasm].
Second caveat: blah blah, we are all on this board obviously far too enlightened to be subject to any of this, blah, blah.
BR(I, too, married someone far more IQ/intellecutally intelligent than me, but I probably have more "real world" smarts through simple experience outside of the ivory tower. Then again, he isn't the one who thinks it's rational to blow $350 on a pair of shoes, so I may not be the street-smart one, either.)C
