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This issue doesn?t really have all that much to do with intelligence at all.
The issue lies in the arena of financial success and corresponding social power.
Women are loathe to marry or engage in a long term relationship with a man who isn?t at least their socioeconomic equal or preferably greater than theirs by a statistically significant interval.
This is because women are primarily oxytocin driven biological systems intent on finding the best set of genes that can give their offspring every best opportunity to survive to the age of sexual maturity and reproduce themselves.
These women can go on and on about self actualization, amiable companionship, ?soul mates? and what on- but this is in my opinion the bottom line.
It?s not that ?smart men? prefer to marry administrative assistants, it?s that but for the extremely rare female who most likely has higher than the mean circulating testosterone levels- the majority of ?smart women? wouldn?t give a male administrative assistant or even the vast majority of their male socioeconomic peers the time of day for consideration as potential dates, let alone mates.
Women are hormonally ?hard wired? for this- even if they are peri-menopausal and their only household dependents are cats.
If a man is tall, has a thick head of hair and is financially independent and/or socially powerful- he has to practically beat the women of all ages throwing themselves at him off with a stick.
If it?s inherited wealth and he?s not the sharpest tool in the drawer, he?s even more attractive to ?smart women? as they believe they can successfully manipulate and dominate him to their own designs.
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gd09335, October 16, 2006
This issue doesn?t really have all that much to do with intelligence at all.The issue lies in the arena of financial success and corresponding social power.
Women are loathe to marry or engage in a long term relationship with a man who isn?t at least their socioeconomic equal or preferably greater than theirs by a statistically significant interval.
This is because women are primarily oxytocin driven biological systems intent on finding the best set of genes that can give their offspring every best opportunity to survive to the age of sexual maturity and reproduce themselves.
These women can go on and on about self actualization, amiable companionship, ?soul mates? and what on- but this is in my opinion the bottom line.
It?s not that ?smart men? prefer to marry administrative assistants, it?s that but for the extremely rare female who most likely has higher than the mean circulating testosterone levels- the majority of ?smart women? wouldn?t give a male administrative assistant or even the vast majority of their male socioeconomic peers the time of day for consideration as potential dates, let alone mates.
Women are hormonally ?hard wired? for this- even if they are peri-menopausal and their only household dependents are cats.
If a man is tall, has a thick head of hair and is financially independent and/or socially powerful- he has to practically beat the women of all ages throwing themselves at him off with a stick.
If it?s inherited wealth and he?s not the sharpest tool in the drawer, he?s even more attractive to ?smart women? as they believe they can successfully manipulate and dominate him to their own designs.
(11 of 19 readers found this comment helpful)