Do Women Test?
How To Deal With Women Who Want To Take Charge
How To Tell A Girl What You Do
Women Don't Need Men To Be Good Moms
Learned Weakness
Managing Your Neediness
"So What Do You Do?"
The Courtship Ritual Is Redundant


Somehow “intellectual equality” has been raised into some kind of holy immutable relationship requirement.

I happen to enjoy dating intellectually active women (see above), but I know men who have placed that below other relationship requirements including mutual attraction and combined life purpose.

I have dated some women who were “nexted” for a lack of brainpower or an inability to think straight and make good judgments. For some of these guys, that wouldn’t have made much of a difference.
But in other cases, these men have given up on angling for “the total package” – some of my more intelligent male friends are quite disappointed by the statistical fact that as unusually smart men, there is by definition a very small pool of people who can give them the cranial stimulation they crave, and so their mating prospects are quite limited if they are holding out for for that in a partner.

I think the most lucid thing I’ve heard from one of those guys is that of all the things a relationship can give him, intellectual exchange is the most replaceable – he can get that from friends, relatives, coworkers or on the Internet, none of which can offer him affection, comfort and love.