My own experience makes this issue very clear:
I am not some kind of mega genius by any stretch. Nor have I ever been accused of being the type of person who tries too hard to sound smart... in fact I've only been accused of the opposite, acting less intelligent/sophisticated on the surface than I actually am.
Yet every girl I ever get anywhere with is an ultra-overachiever type in some high IQ profession. I'm utterly incompetent at gaming your basic nurse or elementary school teacher. Literally never done it successfully. The smarter the girl, the better a chance I have, with no upper limit.
The implication is obvious: Chicks are not into guys significantly more intelligent than they are. The second you express some idea beyond their understanding or use vocabulary they're unfamiliar with, it's game over.
Intellectual discussion only turns on a tiny percentage of intellectual women. And I mean truly intellectual, not those who would label themselves as such (i.e. almost all of them), and certainly not those who think intellectualism means blindly championing whatever progressive cause du jour is currently being pushed by Marxist humanities scholars (a surprisingly high percentage of people think this way, but I guess I'm preaching to the choir here).
The sweet spot is matching her intellect; not a step lower or higher.
I am not some kind of mega genius by any stretch. Nor have I ever been accused of being the type of person who tries too hard to sound smart... in fact I've only been accused of the opposite, acting less intelligent/sophisticated on the surface than I actually am.
Yet every girl I ever get anywhere with is an ultra-overachiever type in some high IQ profession. I'm utterly incompetent at gaming your basic nurse or elementary school teacher. Literally never done it successfully. The smarter the girl, the better a chance I have, with no upper limit.
The implication is obvious: Chicks are not into guys significantly more intelligent than they are. The second you express some idea beyond their understanding or use vocabulary they're unfamiliar with, it's game over.
Intellectual discussion only turns on a tiny percentage of intellectual women. And I mean truly intellectual, not those who would label themselves as such (i.e. almost all of them), and certainly not those who think intellectualism means blindly championing whatever progressive cause du jour is currently being pushed by Marxist humanities scholars (a surprisingly high percentage of people think this way, but I guess I'm preaching to the choir here).
The sweet spot is matching her intellect; not a step lower or higher.