Plenty of men like smart women. I'm a lawyer and I've never been short of male attention, however I don't build my life around how much I get and was happy to settle down with my husband. I'm not interested in "being approached" or flirting to boost my self esteem. In my experience of female friends, its often the least attractive and least intelligent who act in that way. And its also my experience that its the more intelligent girls who are the better presented, take more care of their figures, etc.. My female friends who are doctors, dentists and lawyers all have doting boyfriends/husbands and in the main are more physically attractive than a lot of women out there. Maybe its more a case of them getting snapped up quicly and only the very flirty/committment phobic/promiscuous/attention seeking being left? I admire men more who have partners of equal or similar intelligence and career standing to themselves. Likewise, I can't fully take seriously as someone of true merit a man who has a wife or girlfriend who is very uneducated and who struggles to make interesting conversation. I live in a town which is dominated by engineers, and in fact my husband is an engineer, and I have only met one other engineering male who has a wife or girlfriend with a degree and a proffessional job. and to be honest, they don't tend to be much on the looks front either. I have several times had my breath taken away at the wives and girlfriends presented and wonder how on earth that mismatching of equals works. I also get the jealousy from both men and their female partners, which quite often takes the form of the female partner being pushed into some area of achivement that she has no real interest or ability in, to make the man feel better. It makes me suspicious that it is the "less socially rounded" types of men who go for stupid women, not men in general. I do think men like to be proud of their wives. But its so blatantly obvious when men have opted for the easy choice. It makes me think they must not have very high standards, or not be capable of attracting an intelligent mate - it also makes me not want to support their promotion, because it makes me question their quality as an individual and their ability to deal with both genders effectively in the workplace. Neither is it my fault or the fault of women if you are shy and find chatting up women difficult. These skills can be worked upon and improved. If you are an adult, you should be capable of taking control of your own personal development, without blaming your inability to do so on half the population. Shy men are actually very popular with women if they have a genuinely pleasant disposition and character which shines through. Even from an evolutionary viewpoint, choosing less intelligent girlfriends and wives is pointless. Less intelligent, low achieving, low ambition women tend to produce and nurture less intelligent, low achieving, low ambition children. I really see men who choose stupid girlfriends and wives as more indicative of deficiences on their part, rather than a preference in general of men for stupid women. I'm not being taken in by this "men prefer stupid women" mantra, to me its more "men who can't get more desireable women prefer stupid women".

"compromise" is a word used by people to mean "my way or the highway". I am a very successful intelligent and responsible male in my mid-40's and I decided a long time ago that the "mating game" is one I have no interest in playing. Too much risk for too little reward.

Your all wrong. Men just don't like woman like the one who posted this thread. A misandrist hating on girls? Sorry natural selection did not favor you. Keep hating the people who reject you.

I don't think all men like unintelligent girls. I am very smart and I like very smart women. The last person I was attracted to had an IQ of about 160 and had a masters degree in mathematics and a degree in music. In some ways she was smarter than me, and in some ways not. As far as I was concerned she was a perfect match with the intelligence level I prefer in a partner. Unfortunately for me, she moved 2000 miles away for a new job only a few weeks after I met her.

so true !!

I agree on this for the most part. Not all men are this way, but a lot of them. I consider myself to be smart and attractive but I'm not the ditzy bleach blonde most guys prefer. I've come to find out that a lot of men are threatened by smart women because they prefer to have all the power and cannot do that with a smart independent woman who knows how to take care of herself. I don't think most men are looking for a "real partner" but someone who will ahere to their greedy needs.

The issue here is simply statistics. It has nothing to do with being "intimidated" and everything to do with the fact that the pool of women who are a) Intelligent, b) Sexually attractive, c) Available is incredibly, incredibly small. Say you like women in the top 10% of the population for intelligence, and you'd like a girl who's in the top 25% of the population for attractiveness. Already, right there, you've reduced yourself to 2.5% of the overall population. How many of those women have boyfriends or husbands already? I would be shocked if more than 1% of women meet all three of the above criteria simultaneously.

Check out the insightful documentary called 'Idiocracy', it explains everything you need to know about this bizarre world.