threebyfate Posted October 19, 2010 Posted October 19, 2010 Do women like stupid or smart men? Depends on the woman. A stupid woman will consider a stupid man a rocket scientist.
atlnay Posted October 19, 2010 Posted October 19, 2010 I likes my menz dumb as a box of rocks. And I pick Guy 3.14 1. 5 feet tall. No inches 2. Pure fat 3. Oblong facial features 4. Speaks fluent football, sketchy at english 5. Torched the last business he shopped in, I think he's still wanted by the law It seems like most women these days want a tall and strong guy, but at the same time, someone that is stupid so the woman can control him and make him do things for her. Do you agree with this? Also, of the following two guys, who would you take? Guy 1 1. 5'10 in. tall. 2. Triathlete body but also very muscular (300 IB bench press) 3. good facial features 4. successful and very smart (speaks 3 languages) 5. enjoys outdoor activities, learning about new cultures, tai chi, martial arts, and building up his already succesful business. Guy 2 1. about 6 ft. tall 2. all muscle (bench press of around 450 Ibs) but has no athletic talent except being VERY strong 3. works as a personal trainer at a gym 4. hobbies include beer pong, partying, going to bars, and yelling at the football game on the TV while drunk. 5. good facial features.
theBrokenMuse Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 I pick male version .5556 I want my man to be a pygmy dwarf. 1.) Smaller than a breadbox 2.) Body fashioned from an array of interestingly disfigured corpses and brought back to life by Dr. Frankenstein and can bench press legless hamsters named 'Steve'. 3.) Facial features of Cthulhu 4.) Speaks only broken Pig Latin Klingon backwards with a pronounced stutter and a lisp. 5.) Enjoys activities such as poisoning the neighbor's koi pond, defecating in the bird bath, collecting deer ticks and learning about mucus. Works as a failed explosives intern.
D-Lish Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 I value intelligence over how much they can bench press. Of course I want a nice physical frame to go along with it, but I could never date a guy for more than a few minutes if he wasn't intelligent.
Sabali Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 Never met a woman who said "he is so smart I just want to ***k the hell out of him!"
skydiveaddict Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 Never met a woman who said "he is so smart I just want to ***k the hell out of him!" I agree, women couldn't care less about a man's "smarts"
Untouchable_Fire Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 This response right here. Guy 1 provides her the security and guy 2 comes over when he is at work providing it. The point is that women try to marry the smart guy and cheat with the stupid guy. Actually it's a bit more complicated than that because it plays more into secure/boring vs. dangerous/fun. However... It's interesting that when a GF cheats on me... It's typically with a dumb guy. Both times it was a guy who had a womanizing past, focused all his energy on having a good time with no thought for the future, and both pretty much sucked at their jobs. So... this thread poses a stupid question where a woman has to choose one or the other, when in fact they would go for both.
aerogurl87 Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 It seems like most women these days want a tall and strong guy, but at the same time, someone that is stupid so the woman can control him and make him do things for her. Do you agree with this? Also, of the following two guys, who would you take? Guy 1 1. 5'10 in. tall. 2. Triathlete body but also very muscular (300 IB bench press) 3. good facial features 4. successful and very smart (speaks 3 languages) 5. enjoys outdoor activities, learning about new cultures, tai chi, martial arts, and building up his already succesful business. Guy 2 1. about 6 ft. tall 2. all muscle (bench press of around 450 Ibs) but has no athletic talent except being VERY strong 3. works as a personal trainer at a gym 4. hobbies include beer pong, partying, going to bars, and yelling at the football game on the TV while drunk. 5. good facial features. I'd take neither, I refuse to date a guy who calls the gym his second home (reminds me of my ex and hearing all the talk about working out made me want to vomit). I prefer a guy like my boyfriend who is pretty much perfect to me. He works hard daily, is tall and lean, can carry a deep and meaningful conversation with me, has subjects he's passionate about, and isn't arrogant. He's perfect, but what you described sounds like my worst nightmare in a guy.
Ruby Slippers Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 I agree, women couldn't care less about a man's "smarts" He doesn't have to be a rocket scientist, but if he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, he's gonna have to make up for it with other things, like street smarts and great lovin'. I was involved with an actual rocket scientist for 3 1/2 years, and we almost got married. But he was pretty weird in bed -- and not in a good way. So that didn't work out.
Tim The Enchanter Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 Conversely, I find stupid women a major turn-off.
Sauvignon Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 We are creatures of nature. Think of it that way. The most stability for future family can be offered by a smart and healthy guy with a good, steady job. They can provide stability as well as represent good genes and healthy, positive attitude. This is, in natures sense, an ideal partner. Similar with women. Positive, healthy and intelligent girl with great family instincts is, when it comes to nature, an ideal partner. The myth of stupid men (and stupid women) comes from our more rebellious periods of our life. Teen years and early 20's. Since these periods of our lives were more emotionally driven and less life-experienced, being smart and being able to offer stability were far from anyones minds (but remember that high school girls were still attracted to college boys and maturity in general). And since majority of population will never go further from graduating high school, majority of population will end up believing that 'girls like dumb men' and vice versa. In reality, that simply is not true. If a girl settles for anything less, than what I described above, they either a have low self esteem or little hopes for a better future. Every truly happy family I know consists of two smart and healthy adults, their children are smiling and positive environment surrounds the whole family. You may argue about having exceptions of happy dumb families or when only one of the partners is the 'smart one', but it is not ideal in natures sense, it is likely that one of the partners settled and made a heavy compromise.
Taramere Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 The myth of stupid men (and stupid women) comes from our more rebellious periods of our life. Teen years and early 20's. Since these periods of our lives were more emotionally driven and less life-experienced, being smart and being able to offer stability were far from anyones minds (but remember that high school girls were still attracted to college boys and maturity in general). And since majority of population will never go further from graduating high school, majority of population will end up believing that 'girls like dumb men' and vice versa. Agreed. I think when people say "smart" what they mean is "round about my intelligence level" - which in most cases will inevitably mean round about average. Plus some people assess their own intelligence level inaccurately and might devote themselves to projecting an image which isn't matched up with their actual intelligence level. In some cases dumbing down, in others being a bit of a pseudo-intellectual. I can think of people I was at school with who were quite weak academically, but who hung out with the brightest pupils and devoted themselves assiduously to their studies. They'd get good marks from the teachers, pretty much as a reward for being swotty and eager to please. A few years later, you'd hear about them failing badly at uni and people would express astonishment. "I don't understand it. She did so well at school." If they were being honest rather than focusing on being nice, they'd probably find it very easy to understand. Lecturers at universities don't tend to have a close relationship with students - so students are graded purely on performance, and not on their ass-kissing abilities. There are character traits that'll get people through school, and also help them in the workplace - but that won't help them to shine at a decent university where they're being assessed purely on their academic ability and performance. Likewise, there are character traits that will help people get along with others and be generally liked - but that won't automatically provide them with an advantage when it comes to attracting the opposite sex. It's astounding, really, that anyone should believe that the same things which help them to stay on the right side of authority figures (parents, teachers, employers) should also make them appealing to the opposite sex - but you see evidence of people thinking that way all the time with the "nice person...I did all the right things, yet I can't get men/women to be interested in me" threads. Parents, teachers, bosses and other authority figures aren't in the business of teaching people how to project sexiness to the opposite sex. If anything, they're preoccupied with trying to curb it in their young charges. That said, I don't think exceptional (as in exceptionally attractive, smart or talented) people tend to get dismissed by the opposite sex for being "too nice". Just as naturally gifted people at university won't get marked down by lecturers for having a bit of a swotty, establishment-pleasing image. For potentially interested members of the opposite sex, niceness is more likely to be regarded as the icing on the cake that is an attractive, talented individual. Something to be impressed by. "For all his/her looks and/or talent, he/she is still such a nice, down to earth person." If it's not accompanied by a certain amount of playfulness and sexiness though, they're probably going to have a lot of difficulty in taking friendships with the opposite sex from a platonic level to a romantic, sexual one. The problem is that a lot of intellectual or wannabe intellectuals reject the notion of projecting more playfulness and sexuality because they associate sexy behaviour with immaturity, stupidity and a lack of class. In some cases perhaps as a result of wishful thinking - but I think often because that's what they've been taught (by the parents, teachers, authority figures....)
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