Anyone else reading this book yet? I got it for a birthday present and I must say there are parts where I laughed out loud or nodded knowingly. For example, she talks about how there is no ritual for dating anymore and you can be hanging out with a friend and all of a sudden they pay for the night - it’s a sneak date.
She also quotes a depressing British study that says that higher a woman’s IQ, the lower the likelihood of them marrying. The book is mainly anecdotal and there are occasional scientific studies mentioned. It’s an easy, good read!
This is hardly news to us unfocused, futureless guys who nonetheless are attracted to intelligent women. Sure, it’s possible to fool a dumb girl into thinking you’re a good bet, if you like that sort of thing. But smart girls won’t fall for it, because they’re too smart. It’s a depressing Catch-22 situation.
Stupid smart girls…
Several of the lasses at work were reading this and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying it. Granted thats not a particularly wide sample but it did surprise me slightly when i saw that it didn’t get overly favourable reviews on Amazon and whatnot.
Right! Listen up troops! We’ve got a mission and its a tough one - we’re going after the creme de la creme.
Now I won’t lie to you people. This ain’t gonna be no cake walk. Those are smart girls out there and we all know they don’t take prisoners. Remember kids - stay sharp, keep your conversation topical, don’t make any fart jokes and for the love of the almighty remember to keep your gaze above her neck line!
Best of luck soldiers!
(They’re harder to win over, mon ami, but my god they’re worth it 
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That reminds me of when they said that unmarried women have more risk of heart disease and Tina Fey said, “so cheer up, lonely women! You’ll be dead soon!”
Maybe they have more risk of heart problems because of the burden of being supergeniuses.
Perhaps you’d like to peruse a (fairly short) MPSIMS thread regarding an excerpt of the book that appeared in the NY Times: What’s a Modern Girl To Do?. There’s a link in there to a Slate article response also.
DETOUR THIS WAY. If I could find a woman of 130+, life would be good.
But I fear that this study’s result isn’t due to dumb men not being able to fool the smart girls into dating them, but rather the smart men not wanting to date someone their equal.
One likely reason is that smart women have more choices. The higher a woman’s IQ, the higher her earning power (all other things being equal), so a smart woman is more likely to be able to live in the style she wants without getting married. My point is that the lower marriage rate among smart women doesn’t prove that smart women are actually worse-off - it could mean they’re better-off.
Nope, I’ll shoot for “smart women looking for a still smarter mate”.
That’s it exactly. Smart women don’t want to hang around dumb guys. They want someone they can admire as being smart - and that almost always will mean they expect them to be smarter than the women.
Maybe, but I’ve seen a lot more women acting stupider than they are than I have seen smart women screwing themselves over by allowing themselves to continue being smart.
Just the kind of thing you gals need. . .
I would agree with this. It certainly seems to be the case with income – even high-earning women seem to prefer mates who earn more than they do.