Men are threatened by intelligent women, study finds

[Twila]

No problems as long as Justin behaves himself. No pot smoking on the job!

Why not? Might be therapeutic. Everyone knows that pot makes you mellow.

Not only that, but if the Beetles hadn't smoked the ganja or if Bob Marley hadn't smoked the ganja or Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) or Bing Crosby or Cab Calloway or Carlos Santana or Carl Sagan or Dr Francis Crick (Nobel prize winner) or Friedrich Nietzsche or Graham Greene or Howard Stern or Hunter S. Thompson or Lewis Wolpert (biologist) or Richard Feynman( Nobel Prize Laureate physicist) or Samuel Beckett or Samuel Taylor Coleridge well I could go on and on and on.

they all smoked ON THE JOB.

Louis Armstrong believed it was the only thing that kept him from loosing his mind over the racism and inequality that was going on all around him.

 

[Ludlow]

Not only that, but if the Beetles hadn't smoked the ganja or if Bob Marley hadn't smoked the ganja or Satchmo (Louis Armstrong) or Bing Crosby or Cab Calloway or Carlos Santana or Carl Sagan or Dr Francis Crick (Nobel prize winner) or Friedrich Nietzsche or Graham Greene or Howard Stern or Hunter S. Thompson or Lewis Wolpert (biologist) or Richard Feynman( Nobel Prize Laureate physicist) or Samuel Beckett or Samuel Taylor Coleridge well I could go on and on and on.

they all smoked ON THE JOB.

Louis Armstrong believed it was the only thing that kept him from loosing his mind over the racism and inequality that was going on all around him.

Don't much care for it myself Twila but it isn't as dangerous as booze.

 

[Twila]

Don't much care for it myself Twila but it isn't as dangerous as booze.

No worries. It's not for everybody. and it's not for everyday.

I just feel the need to address any vilification of it. Logic and reason should rule the day. Not myth.

 

[Ludlow]

No worries. It's not for everybody. and it's not for everyday.

I just feel the need to address any vilification of it. Logic and reason should rule the day. Not myth.

Tried it as a young man. Just didn't like the way it made me feel. It was like I could not focus on any one thing for any length of time. No moral issues with it here, just not for me.

I prefer a couple two or three margueritas to relax.

 

[AnnaG]

I believe the word is "Sapiosexual". Although sexuality doesn't seem to me to be an important part of that mindset. Hard to find a word to describe the feeling. Anyway that is the word.

Ahh. Latin based word. Sapio is Latin for intelligent or wise and sexualis is Latin for genders or sexes.

It's like when you are a kid who has not reached puberty. You are attracted to someone who you admire not only for the way they look, but also ,and more so, for how smart they are. Hard to explain or put into words.

I got it. Thanks.

 

[Twila]

Tried it as a young man. Just didn't like the way it made me feel. It was like I could not focus on any one thing for any length of time. No moral issues with it here, just not for me.

I prefer a couple two or three margueritas to relax.

ah, I'm a gin girl myself. Gin and lemonade. Gin and tonic water.

Or bourbon...bourbon and eggnog...hmmmm or spice rum and eggnog hmmm.

Those are my go to drinks to relax.

Funnily enough pot actually allows me to focus. Otherwise the squirrel that is my brain is all over the place. half doing everything and forgetting half of everything else.

 

[AnnaG]

I am eclectic, but I prefer rum. T'is the pirit in me, arrrrr.
Greyhounds are my favourite gin drink.

 

[JLM]

Why not? Might be therapeutic. Everyone knows that pot makes you mellow.

And the doctors are saying it damages the brain!

 

[Ludlow]

And the doctors are saying it damages the brain!

lots of things damage the brain. Reading blackleafs posts damage my brain. I know potheads that can't remember their own name. But I also know potheads that almost display a photographic memory. I know many ho are lazy,,,and some who are hard working people.
So I think it depends on the make up of the individual. My ex wife maintained her composure very well when high on weed. Me, I"d panic and run out in the cold weather in my underwear,.

 

[JLM]

lots of things damage the brain. Reading blackleafs posts damage my brain.

THAT, I agree with!

 

[Johnnny]

There are men out there who were raised by powerful woman.
For example my mother is a super smart kind woman who makes way more than my dad. Never rubbed it in that she was all that. So I grew up thinking all women were like that. When I found out not all woman are as strong as my mom, we'll that's when I found out i had an advantage over other guys.

She was ahead of the times

 

[Ludlow]

There are men out there who were raised by powerful woman.
For example my mother is a super smart kind woman who makes way more than my dad. Never rubbed it in that she was all that. So I grew up thinking all women were like that. When I found out not all woman are as strong as my mom, we'll that's when I found out i had an advantage over other guys.

She was ahead of the times

My dad hit the road when I was eight pretty much leaving six kids and a wife on their own to survive without his help. My mom worked as a maid at a motel often times having to walk 5 miles to work, put in 8 hours and then walk home . She did what she had to do to provide for her kids. She continued working her a$$ off until she met my step father and married him. Things got easier after that. Mom was there for us. That may have a little to do with my perspective on this topic.

 

[JLM]

My dad hit the road when I was eight pretty much leaving six kids and a wife on their own to survive without his help. My mom worked as a maid at a motel often times having to walk 5 miles to work, put in 8 hours and then walk home . She did what she had to do to provide for her kids. She continued working her a$$ off until she met my step father and married him. Things got easier after that. Mom was there for us. That may have a little to do with my perspective on this topic.

Right there is why I question why a person should be defined by their job! If so it should be not what the job is but how well they do it. Better to be a first class carpenter than a second class brain surgeon!

 

[Ludlow]

Right there is why I question why a person should be defined by their job! If so it should be not what the job is but how well they do it. Better to be a first class carpenter than a second class brain surgeon!

Mom was a good maid

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I read that study as suggesting not that men are threatened by intelligent women, but by women they perceive to be more intelligent than they are, a subtle but important difference. And given the meaning of average, it seems worth pointing out that half of all women are more intelligent than half of all men, and vice versa. Small sample size and a pretty simplistic conclusion though, in an artificial situation set up deliberately to make the women appear more intelligent than the men. I don't think I'd give it much credence, and in fact I'd suspect more careful analysis would show that whatever intimidation factor is attached to higher intelligence doesn't really have much to do with gender.

 

[Jinentonix]

I have voluntarily left the homo primate replication stream after sucessfully filling my quota and fully satisfying the biological imperatives. I am now happily retired from paired domestic rote.

Yes yes, I'm sure you're the studliest muffin living in your parent's basement.

And the doctors are saying it damages the brain!

Not quite. They're saying it could be detrimental to the mental/intellectual development of teens. And I have no doubt it would be. So is alcohol. Anything that alters the mind and brain chemistry in a still developing brain runs a higher risk of doing permanent damage than in adults. Particularly when it's abused and not just partaken in occasionally.
The wake 'n' bakers are the ones most likely to stunt their development.

 

[JLM]

Ahh. Latin based word. Sapio is Latin for intelligent or wise and sexualis is Latin for genders or sexes.

I got it. Thanks.

Someone sure screwed up when they designated the term "homo sapien" eh?

 

[Twila]

"Men are threatened by intelligent women"- Perhaps that's the way it should be!

I believe that you should try to always be the best you for your partner and that they should also try to be the very best them for you. If you do not continue to learn and grow and become a better person with your significant other then that relationship is not a good one.

 

[MHz]

Would children be happier and less go off the rails if the more intelligent parent was put in charge of raising them?

 

[Twila]

Not quite. They're saying it could be detrimental to the mental/intellectual development of teens. And I have no doubt it would be. So is alcohol. Anything that alters the mind and brain chemistry in a still developing brain runs a higher risk of doing permanent damage than in adults. Particularly when it's abused and not just partaken in occasionally.
The wake 'n' bakers are the ones most likely to stunt their development.

that would need to be excessive alcohol or alcohol abuse in teens, because in Europe teens are allowed to drink alcohol, beer and wine etc (non hard alcohol )and has been this way for a long time.

So I wonder if it's not so much the attitude of drinking that's causing some detriment to the brain. If its' not a way for teens to rebel then the reasons for drinking combined with the action creates the negative impact. You know what i mean?

Would children be happier and less go off the rails if the more intelligent parent was put in charge of raising them?

they'd have to be emotionally intelligent not just IQ intelligent then. You can provide a child with all the right things but if there is not deep love the child will suffer worse then a child that is loved to bits, but hasn't got some of it's other needs meant.

There needs to be balance. And even then you can't prevent the outside world from having an impact also.