To TRPers: Men don't like smart women?

workerbeebuzz · 2014-09-12T00:18:05+00:00

Maybe "traditional" men are hypogamous (as opposed to hypergamous) and seek women who can't compete with them in terms of intelligence or status? I know if frightened boys right off when I had higher test scores and grades at university; my husband wouldn't have attempted to chat me up if he wasn't a very self confident person.

drok007 · 2014-09-11T20:12:33+00:00

Here's an article that I think explains it well enough:

http://theredpillroom.blogspot.com/2014/02/wife-test-intelligent-women-pick.html?m=1

I think more that TRP doesn't care about career smart. For career smarts, I've got that covered. I don't need another person like me. Especially if all it's going to do is hamper decision making. I need a woman who is a smart wife and mother as a partner.

BorMato · 2014-09-12T00:08:35+00:00

I like smart women. Smart women are more likely to be less of a liability to my future children as well as themselves.

Women are attracted to intelligent and educated men because that gives them higher status. Women are attracted to status.

Men are not attracted to status but rather youthfulness, kindness and affection, things that would indicate to me that you will be a good mother.

cxj · 2014-09-12T22:17:46+00:00

IMO intelligence is a really really hard thing to assess. My high school's valedictorian was one of the ditziest people I've ever known. We worked fast food together and she could not figure out the most basic, common sense shit to save her life. Every day was like her first day on the job.

What good are her book smarts to me if she can't figure out how to turn on a blender without help? Or is regularly 50$ off on her register? Or can't figure out why she can't get the keys out of the ignition because the car is actually still running? Not saying a relationship would literally be like fast food management, but having to micromanage this kind of routine dumbfuckery would obviously get extremely old for anyone of any gender, lol.

Personally, I appreciate and respect intelligence when it is not coupled with arrogance and pretense (rare), but it does not make me attracted to girls in any way. Intelligence absolutely is a good trait in girls, but it is not an attractive trait.

jamieoneal82 · 2014-09-11T19:49:36+00:00

Who said men don't like smart women? In the past 6 months of reading TRP stuff I don't think I've ever seen any one suggest that.

Reginleifer · 2014-09-11T20:46:22+00:00

I love smart women, but it's not even remotely close an influential decision on who I date.

I'm more attracted to submissiveness, kindness, and an affinity for children.

I can't put my dick in your college degree.

workerbeebuzz · 2014-09-12T01:17:52+00:00

I don't know. I've never met a women who ever taught me something valuable.

I've never met a women a women who was better at math than me, new more about the natural world or had better technical skills than me. Ironically the only thing a women has ever taught me is to cook and clean.

Do I like smart women? I'll let you know when I meet one.

Smilingbluekitties · 2014-09-13T00:55:13+00:00

There are lots of different kinds of "smart." Smart women are not all driven corporate career workhorses. The type of intelligence I have is compatible with my SO's- we love words and literature. He gets physically aroused when I get some of his obscure references. He's thrilled to be with a woman who doesn't fall asleep during a four hour documentary. I fully admit that I'm a bit of an idiot savant and technology confuses me. He's very patient with me on that, and he's secure enough to ask me about anything pertaining to classical music.

CoffeePrince · 2014-09-13T05:55:59+00:00

It is quite the opposite. Men can't stand stupid women. The smartest women know how to seduce a man and make him feel like a million bucks. The smart ones know what buttons to press and when to press them. A smart women does this so well that the man truly believes he is the one doing the seducing. It is graceful and when done masterfully it is invisible.

jamieoneal82 · 2014-09-11T20:34:18+00:00

Physical looks still supersede all when it comes to women but anyone who doesn't value intelligence at all in their partner is not intelligent themselves.

[deleted] · 2014-09-11T22:21:16+00:00

I tend to think smarter women just don't like men.

Most, if not all, of my past gf's have been on the silly side, to put it forgivingly. I tend to assume "smart" women must either be impossible to get to know or too bitchy or something.

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Date	September 11, 2014 7:46 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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