Anecdotal evidence suggests men often "date down", choosing partners less intelligent than themselves. Bright, accomplished women often complain that men are "intimidated" by them, and that they need to play down their accomplishments to get a date. Yeh, "anecdotal evidence" - that's keeping it scientific right theya. This bullshiite complaint has been going on for years. Women who can't attract men come up with a big denial theory that hypothesizes that all their good qualities are intimidating to men - and men are too stupid to be interested in anything other than sex so have no appreciation of them. It is a sort of catch-22 for some of these women. They assert that men should be interested in women for the totality of their being, and their intellect, and companionship factors, and potential to form a good family etc. - never thinking that indeed many men are - at least when it comes to formal marriage and that is why they are eliminated. Their self-assessment is not necessarily scientific, eh? Lots of smart women are doing just fine. Oh, I see those first dates where you ask 50 questions to be sure that the guy scores well on all the lib issues and your other tests are not going well and they never call back? I guess they just don't appreciate a peach like you. Yeh, that's it.
The 2nd smartest guy I ever met once told me he would only marry a really intelligent women. I asked why. He said because then she would know he was always correct.
I put 2 guys tied for 1st on my list. One, I did not know his wife. He was a scientist I used to speak with. The other was not married, he was a priest. If you wished to acquire knowledge- being a priest with a genius IQ in foggy bottom in DC was just about the perfect. That priest knew everyone. Think tank people to sup ct justices.
Men are obsessed with sex and women are always trying to better their position. To the ultimate position of dictatorship. Modern women with jobs have a new independence and it's not attractive. Last year my nephew married a high flying lawyer. Within a few weeks she had decided to go and live in Norway, leaving him to commute there for weekends if he wanted to see her. They got divorced a few weeks ago !