# The thing about having a GF way smarter than you... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509 "2016-01-28T17:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/1 "2016-01-28T17:40:37Z")
When you argue, and you KNOW you’re the “right” one in the argument, yet she is still able to mind fuck you and turn it all around on you. You then find yourself apologizing and thinking quietly to yourself: “How the fuck did _that_ happen?” I love my girl, but damn if her debating skills don’t make me feel like the village idiot sometimes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/2 "2016-01-28T17:48:03Z")
You’re going to have to flip the script on her: get upset WAY disproportionately to whatever the argument is about, be inexplicable and irrational, and utterly fail to see reason, no matter how reasonable she’s being. . ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/3 "2016-01-28T17:50:25Z")
You obviously don’t realize that you were never right in the first place. In arguments of this kind the woman is right and the man wrong by definition. I know I can’t win, I’m just not going to give up without a fight. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/4 "2016-01-28T18:17:38Z")
You get used to it after a while. The trick is to still get her to buy you [manflowers](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beer&t=ffsb&iax=1&ia=images)afterward to make you feel better. A dozen or so red or white make it all better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/5 "2016-01-28T18:32:35Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > You get used to it after a while. The trick is to still get her to buy you [manflowers](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beer&t=ffsb&iax=1&ia=images)afterward to make you feel better. A dozen or so red or white make it all better. 🙂 I’ll drink to that. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/6 "2016-01-28T22:59:35Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You obviously don’t realize that you were never right in the first place. In arguments of this kind the woman is right and the man wrong by definition. I know I can’t win, I’m just not going to give up without a fight. \*If a Man falls down in the forest, and nobody’s there to hear it… is he still wrong?\* ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/7 "2016-01-28T23:08:39Z")
Yes, but is she hot? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/8 "2016-01-28T23:19:38Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Yes, but is she hot? 😉 Of course! Smart women are way hot in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/9 "2016-01-28T23:34:32Z")
It’s not intelligence. It’s natural feminine constructs that defeat men. I’m pretty sure I’m more learned than my wife, and more experienced. But my arguments and rebuttals often meet dead ends with her. She can resort to crying, threats, incredible sidesteps, even lying. And sometimes it takes me days to realize I’ve been had (again.) ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/10 "2016-01-29T02:05:50Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > When you argue, and you KNOW you’re the “right” one in the argument, yet she is still able to mind fuck you and turn it all around on you. You then find yourself apologizing and thinking quietly to yourself: “How the fuck did _that_ happen?” > > I love my girl, but damn if her debating skills don’t make me feel like the village idiot sometimes. 😃 Rule #1: Don’t argue with women. Save the planet instead. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-thing-about-having-a-gf-way-smarter-than-you/744509/11 "2016-01-29T20:41:45Z")
My parents’ marriage lasted 50 years, terminated only by my mother’s untimely death. All the time I was growing up, I never – and I mean NEVER – heard them argue. I asked my dad once how this was possible, and he said, “Easy. She was always right.” She probably really was.