Topic: Dating and Intelligence
Ruth34611's photo
Sat 09/29/12 06:58 PM
Yes, intelligence matters. But, so does open mindedness, the ability to empathize and consideration for other people.

markc48's photo
Sat 09/29/12 07:01 PM



Would you date someone of a obvious lesser mental ability than you? Would you be condescending on issues with him/her or help them grow. How would you react if they keep making mistakes?


Most men are dumb by nature so this is a hard one. I could why the rise in bisexual ladies has spiked prodigiously since the early 90s.


You'd think it would be easier, with two heads and all...but obviously not laugh


No head by two bisexual ladies. And you expect us to think too.

markc48's photo
Sat 09/29/12 07:32 PM
Some of the smartest men act dumb so they wont have to do everything.

Ruth34611's photo
Sat 09/29/12 07:49 PM

Some of the smartest men act dumb so they wont have to do everything.


laugh

I have suspected this for years.

markc48's photo
Sat 09/29/12 08:13 PM
But I am smart enough to know you ladies do it too.

krupa's photo
Sat 09/29/12 08:27 PM
Stupidity is not sexy.

Sure ....idiots can be fun in bed.....but, do you really wanna introduce a Moron to your family and friends?

"She can't out think a shoe......but, I love her "

No offence to anyone who can't out think my shoe.

:)

wux's photo
Sat 09/29/12 09:10 PM
Edited by wux on Sat 09/29/12 09:15 PM

Would you date someone of a obvious lesser mental ability than you? Would you be condescending on issues with him/her or help them grow. How would you react if they keep making mistakes?


I would. As long as she looks dynamite and can put out a candle with clapping her cheeks near it.

It's hard not to be condescending. It is a real art, actually. All US presidents when they run in an election, have had previously taken acting lessons to not act condescending, and to not laugh when they lie ot get votes.

How would I react if they made mistakes? Their biggest mistake was to choose to accept my invitation for a date; every other mistake that they ever have made, or conceivably can make, is dwarfed by the mistake of going on a date with me.

Even Hitler avoided that, and look at the mess he pulled Germany into. He made several mistakes, the biggest of which was to Yank the Jews, but even he stayed away from dating me.

Which disqualifies him from being dummer than I.

So he does not count.

At least not by sevens, backwards down to zero from 394.

markc48's photo
Sat 09/29/12 09:11 PM
No OFFENSE taken

MariahsFantasy's photo
Sat 09/29/12 09:16 PM

Some of the smartest men act dumb so they wont have to do everything.


We can't come if ya dumb. A smart man would know this, hence there would nay be an act.

wux's photo
Sat 09/29/12 09:18 PM

Life is too short to settle.



I always have thought that life is too short to be spent waiting for one with whom you don't have to settle.

Wow. Heavy.

wux's photo
Sat 09/29/12 09:21 PM

No offence to anyone who can't out think my shoe.



Right. The best defense is offense.

"There is no sense in offense but defence."

Heck, I just lost all my discerning abilities that apply to spelling and to good manners during an attack of uncontrollable diarrhoea.

navygirl's photo
Sun 09/30/12 08:43 AM
I have dated guys that have less education but I don't see that as a problem. I think we all are intelligent in our own way. I dated a man with a grade 8 education and met a guy with 4 degrees but the grade 8 man was much more fun to be around and was much more loving. I think no matter how much intelligence we have; we can always learn something new and I think this is why a person of lesser education is more attractive. He doesn't have the "I know it all" attitude and is a hell of a lot more useful around a house.

seamac's photo
Sun 09/30/12 01:20 PM

I have dated guys that have less education but I don't see that as a problem. I think we all are intelligent in our own way. I dated a man with a grade 8 education and met a guy with 4 degrees but the grade 8 man was much more fun to be around and was much more loving. I think no matter how much intelligence we have; we can always learn something new and I think this is why a person of lesser education is more attractive. He doesn't have the "I know it all" attitude and is a hell of a lot more useful around a house.


I think talking about education vs intelligence are two very different things. Some people have both, some have one or the other. What you do with either (or both) is what makes you worth having as a friend or lover or neither!

navygirl's photo
Sun 09/30/12 05:50 PM


I have dated guys that have less education but I don't see that as a problem. I think we all are intelligent in our own way. I dated a man with a grade 8 education and met a guy with 4 degrees but the grade 8 man was much more fun to be around and was much more loving. I think no matter how much intelligence we have; we can always learn something new and I think this is why a person of lesser education is more attractive. He doesn't have the "I know it all" attitude and is a hell of a lot more useful around a house.


I think talking about education vs intelligence are two very different things. Some people have both, some have one or the other. What you do with either (or both) is what makes you worth having as a friend or lover or neither!


I didn't quite get my point accross right; so much for my intelligence. LOL I used education sort of an example of intelligence. I was just trying to say we all have intelligence in some way or another; some have varying degrees of intelligence. But agreed; its all in what you do with it.

Nelle83's photo
Mon 10/01/12 12:08 AM
I'm very much turned on by intelligence (any type of intelligence).

I've dated stupid before....I get bored easily with stupid.

I'd rather be single than date stupid.

Must be why I'm still single. :)

TBRich's photo
Mon 10/01/12 12:24 AM
I have a Master's degree and several post-graduate certifications, my ex had a GED. I never found it a problem, although after the divorce she told me that half the time she had no idea what I would be talking about.

Hikerjohn's photo
Mon 10/01/12 03:24 AM

No two people are alike..as you know.
However, everyone brings some sort of intelligence to the table that you will not posses. So... who is the less intelligent then? There is no such thing.
Some people lack humor or have a dry sense of humor. It doesn't make them dumb, just different. It has become easy to label people in the world, however, it has nothing to do with them being dumb.


I like this answer. I also try hard not to confused educated with intelligent.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

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Mon 10/01/12 04:33 AM
I discovered when you date someone of a lesser education/intelligence, they always tend to act defensively even when there's no need. I guess its all a question of inferiority complex.

Hikerjohn's photo
Mon 10/01/12 09:15 AM

I discovered when you date someone of a lesser education/intelligence, they always tend to act defensively even when there's no need. I guess its all a question of inferiority complex.


Sometimes we try and show off our intelegence and it only serves to make the other person feel inferior or that you think your superior.


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Mon 10/01/12 09:18 AM
If she's hot, she's hot...who cares if she has to bang her head on the wall to count.