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Originally posted by mmm3587
Dissent.
You seem to be ascribing a pretty despicable quality to all men: that they want to be married to some woman that they can subjugate, or just generally trick or outwit, and that they never want to be challenged intellectually or how their abilities questioned. Or, that their egos don't allow them to spend time around intelligent women without feeling emasculated. I don't see those kind of attitudes in anywhere near all men.
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Agree with your dissent. (I'm sure there's some fancy litigation term for this - concur? - but my litigation-speak seems to have left me...)
Anyway, while anecdotal (and therefore, irrefutable proof), my own personal situtation illustrates the opposite of bn'b's findings. My husband went out with lots of chicks before me, but never had a serious relationship, because, while none was necessarily dummies (with the exception of the one immediately preceding me, of course...), they bought his bullshit. I don't really know how else to explain it, but I think I was one of the first women he went out with who knew when he was full of shit and told him so. (Not that this makes me smarter than he is, or him smarter than I am -- we're both smart, but in different ways.)
I will say, however, that (being the competitive, Type-A sorts that we both are), when we are discussing something where one of us is not the clear "smarter" one (like law, for example), it can degenerate into an argument. Luckily, we don't work in the same area of law, or these arguments might happen with greater frequency.
