It has nothing to do with my commitment issues, it's my oversized brains + ambition. Guess I should start dumbing it down a bit, eh?
According to a study done at Columbia University:
“We found that men did put significantly more weight on their assessment of a partner’s beauty, when choosing, than women did. We also found that women got more dates when they won high marks for looks.”
He continued: “By contrast, intelligence ratings were more than twice as important in predicting women’s choices as men’s. It isn’t exactly that smarts were a complete turnoff for men: They preferred women whom they rated as smarter — but only up to a point ... It turns out that men avoided women whom they perceived to be smarter than themselves. The same held true for measures of career ambition — a woman could be ambitious, just not more ambitious than the man considering her for a date.
“When women were the ones choosing, the more intelligence and ambition the men had, the better. So, yes, the stereotypes appear to be true: We males are a gender of fragile egos in search of a pretty face and are threatened by brains or success that exceeds our own.”
Although my oversized booty is apparently working for me as well but my brilliant daughters will have to go through the same thing...
"Perhaps smart women can take hope — as long as they’re built like Marilyn Monroe. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Pittsburgh have released a zany study on the zaftig, positing that men are drawn to hourglass figures not only because they look alluring, but because hips plumped up by omega-3 fatty acids could mean smarter women bearing smarter kids."
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This is depressing but at least I know what I've being doing *wrong* all these years. (sigh)
Not true... I would of avoided all women if this were true. :)
You know 9er, I never thought about it that way but you're right. It could be interpreted that all married women must be considered by their partner to be not as smart as they are(except LP obviously).
I knew this was a dumb study.
I don't really have any good comment to contribute here.
But there is Power in the Heel.
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