Poll: Tell me that I am not alone to think that...

[sallene]

As Ron White so elequently put,



Edit - Damned, got beat to it.

If I could offer one piece of advice to the planet, it would be this: Don't marry for looks alone, and I'll tell you why. In a few years, when Barbara's boobs start sagging, she can get plastic surgery, have them lifted, move the nipple wherever. You can actually go to a titty bar, pick out a set of titties and say, "I want those titties on that woman." If her belly gets too big, she can get a tummy tuck and have a belly like a cheerleader. If her vision goes bad, you can have LASIK surgery and have 20/20 vision. If her hearing goes bad, they can install a device in her ear that will give you hearing as clear as it was the day you were born. But let me tell you something, folks: You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

 

[Animated Rope]

Women that play the dumb blonde card just make me wanna slap that bint.
I also like glasses... glasses are HOT.
My girl has glasses, shit is SO cash!

Of course glasses are hot, but we're getting off-topic. We were discussing intelligence and attractiveness, not looks and attractiveness. Unless you're discussing that old prejudice about people with glasses being smart. As if intelligence was harmful to your eyesight.
(I know I'm overreacting, I just had to say it.)

Intelligence doesn't doesn't harm you eyesight. Burrowing your nose in a book(or computer) for hours are. And that behaviour is a typical(But not always) symptom of intelligence, or the other way around.

 

[Spineyguy]

People looked at me gone out when I said that I loved the person I do.

Not wanting to sound too harsh, she's not a supermodel. She is a perfectly ordinary, respectable, good looking girl. She's by no means ugly and I will rend anyone who calls her so limb from limb, but she wouldn't win a beauty contest if you put her up against the hottest women in the world.

But, I corrected one particular person, there are more important things than a perfectly even skin tone or a brilliantly white set of gnashers. The thing that first attracted me to her was her eyes, not because they were the deepest blue or the brightest hazel, but because they carry in them a level of experience and wisdom far beyond her years. For me, wisdom, rather than intelligence is what matters, intelligence is nothing, it's just the ability to do well in these stupid arbitrary tests they make you do. Wisdom is something far more profound you can be the smartest person alive and yet in practise, wisdom is what matters. Without wisdom, all you can do is regurgitate information you heard or read somewhere else. Any idiot can do that.

Footnote: She also has quite a nice bottom.

 

[Bellvedere]

Well I think there are different kinds of intelligence. I'm at university living on campus, and there's this divide between science and arts students. As an Arts student I feel there is something sort of wrong... with most of the science students I talk to, socially at least. They may be dead clever but alot of them I it's a real struggle to hold a proper conversation (one where you don't just fall back into default-casual-conversation-about-things-I-have-no-opinion-about mode). I would never date one. Unless they could change my whole perception of science students.

I'm a girl so maybe I shouldn't be posting here.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I value wisdom as much as intelligence. For example, I know that a female co-worker of mine is indeed intelligent, plus she looks stunning. But still, I'm definatly not attracted to her. Yes she has a good set of brains, but she can't be bothered to actually use them; her character is as flat as a piece of ply, all she really cares about is shopping, boys and partying. She's also can't be bothered with thinking about any long term effects of any stupid thing she does. In short: she's intelligent, but not wise. She has the capacity, but she doesn't do anything with that. I still can't think of getting serious (and that's all I care about, a serious relationship) with a really dumb girl, but intelligence only is not enough. Intelligence is just the seed, for me it's very much needed in a romantic relationship with a girl, but with just the seed you're not there yet. Only when it starts to grow, and blossoms into a beautifull flower, the seed becomes usefull. So that's what I'm ultimatly looking for in a girl: a girl with wisdom, who can teach me a thing or 2. She doesn't have to be a MENSA member or a scientist, as long as she's wise and I can have a meaningfull and deep conversation with her I am happy, but I think that that does require a basis of intelligence.

 

[RanD00M]

I think that it is good to be with a woman with much intelligence is fun.

You can talk about almost anything and she knows what you are talking about.And she can be a part of a conversation that is very smart and high class.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Theres different kinds of intelligence. I dated a girl that was so scary book smart it would boggle your mind. But if you told her the movie Gremlins was based off a true story she would probably believe you.

So no, there are many diferent characteristics to a women that I find attractive and intelligence is only one of them. I have liked many different women for many different things.

 

[Leorex]

Please tell me that I am not alone to think that intelligence is sexy in a woman. Pretty much anybody got at least once this discussion about what they find sexy and what is not. Well, I've had that kind of discussion quite often with a lot of people, and I've never heard any man say that clever women are sexy (they didn't say that is was a turn off, just that they don't seem to care - at all). I'm not talking about geek archetypes or school nerds. But there are so many really beautiful woman that, as soon as they open their mouth, they sound so distubingly stupid that it turns me off almost completely. Thse girls sound desperate for attention, and simply does what they've been told by MTV and other nonsense. However, a woman making herself attractive and knowing why she is doing so, now THAT makes my head spin

The problem goes even farther, with loads of people thinking that if a girl is having an active sex life, she must be dumb. Personally, I can't see the correlation with enjoying the best thing on Earth as much as possible and being unable to have intelligent thoughts.

Guys, does any of you share my frustration that most males seem they could not care less about what's in the gals' head? And to the girls here, what are your thoughts on the matter?

they dont say it because its a given.

 

[Worgen]

nothing is hotter then a woman who will read the origin of species as she rides you

 

[toasterslayer]

id rather she be socially smart. can talk to easily, and knows when i'm bothered or joking. nots so big one acedemics.

 

[my dog said quack]

where I live are many many, what many would call "airheads" the senseless but cute dumb blonde type of girls who dont always make it far in the end.

I did meet a very nice young lady who is very good looking and is pretty smart. I do wanna actually be able to converse about something intellectuall and not level minded.

 

[Ravenhood]

I'd have to say that intelligence is quite the nice bonus, though I don't particularly like using the word "intelligence" here. Personally, I've considered dating a few people that some wouldn't consider overly intelligent, yet I notice they could still hold a good conversation on a deeper level than most.

But, I digress...

A higher level of 'intelligence' is definitely nice. It's always been a huge attraction for me, ever since my late elementary school days. It may not be a necessity, but I feel as though a relationship is less likely to work well if the girl I'm with can't hold a good conversation or deeper talk for long.
I suppose, in a sense then, that this comes down to a sub-selection of 'communication'... to communicate with someone on another level is somehow exhilarating for me.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

Intelligence is a must. There can be no other option otherwise I would get bored with her quick when all I can talk about is her hair or how stupid she looks sitting there.

 

[Bat Vader]

I find that I like intelligent women more than beautiful women. I would rather date an intelligent woman than a beautiful woman. I know there are beautiful women who are intelligent but where I live there are not many beautiful intelligent women.

I find that intelligence is much more beautiful than looks.

 

[MarxistMan]

Now, for me, I am odd, I dont like pyshical beauty, I find it unatrative, to be with someone who is 'breath takeing' well for a couple reasons A) I have a tendancy to be the jealos type and B) I am Parionid of being cheated on, have been before.

But Intelligance, great bonus for me, but what really matters for me is commnication, is we can have long conversations, then I am happy, yes I have a tendancy to speak of matters like the economy and goverment, but I'm adjustable and can easily be talking about cows, and tacos. I realy like Intellgance but if Im atratted to her well then im atratted to her.

 

[Valiance]

I meant to vote the second but I voted the first.

I have very odd conversations with my girlfriends ranging from time machine theory to history discussions to social commentary. I don't think I could really "be" with someone I don't connect with in that fashion.

 

[new_age_reject]

Women that play the dumb blonde card just make me wanna slap that bint.
I also like glasses... glasses are HOT.
My girl has glasses, shit is SO cash!

Of course glasses are hot, but we're getting off-topic. We were discussing intelligence and attractiveness, not looks and attractiveness. Unless you're discussing that old prejudice about people with glasses being smart. As if intelligence was harmful to your eyesight.
(I know I'm overreacting, I just had to say it.)

Well yeah I mentioned how I hated dumb people then proceeded to contribute a little more.
And if Pol Pot is anyone to go by then yes, glasses do mean you're intelligent

So Pol Pot is sexy, right?

I certainly would, yes.