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- From: taylor@ccrs.emr.ca (Trevor Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Women: would you go out with a man dumber than you?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.142534.13011@emr1.emr.ca>
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- References: <1992Dec15.230028.3150@linus.mitre.org> <1992Dec21.083541.1@opal.tufts.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:25:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.083541.1@opal.tufts.edu> gbelli@opal.tufts.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.230028.3150@linus.mitre.org>, lkahn@mitre.org (Larry Kahn) writes:
- >>
- >> In keeping with the spirit of a current thread, I'll pose this question
- >> for (semi)serious responses. When does an "intelligence" difference start
- >> to matter? This includes level of education difference as well as someone
- >> who's book smart but has zero common sense.
- >>
- >
- >The last man I dated was dumber than I was. He had more formal education
- >than I, but he just wasn't the brightest bulb in the marquee. The fact
- >that I often had to define words that I used in conversation was one of the
- >factors in my deciding that I didn't want to see him anymore. It was sooo
- >frustrating.
- >
- >And on a general note...I think that men prefer for women to at least
- >pretend that they are less intelligent than the man. Sorry. No.
- >
- >Gretchen
- >GBELLI@OPAL.TUFTS.EDU
-
- Is an inability for someone to understand your vocabulary
- necessarily an indication of lack of intelligence (I assume that dumb
- and unintelligent are being equated ) ?
-
- It sounds like a lack of a common context for communicating
- is at fault between you and your last date. I'm not suggesting
- that this is a reason for not dumping the guy (after all, this
- guy was irritating) but I am suggesting that perhaps lack of
- intelligence was not the major problem.
-
- Or , in other words, you and this guy simply were not
- talking on compatible wavelengths.\
-
- Trevor
- taylor@ccrs.emr.ca
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