<p>Oh, I would love a girlfriend who could dominate me in the math room.</p>
<p>I was hoping I could think up a better one than this :/</p>
<p>Perhaps more capable in an area I’m not interested in; I’d rather her not be better than me in Computer Science…</p>
<p>I think it’s more about common sense and work ethic. I wouldn’t want to date someone who is really smart but stays in their pjs all day eating lucky charms instead of going to class. I would be fine dating someone not as smart as I am, as long as they lived up to their potential. </p>
<p>That being said, I wouldn’t really enjoy being with someone who wasn’t smart enough to get my sense of humor (sarcastic and riddled with obscure history and pop culture references).</p>
<p>(PS I’m a girl)</p>
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It was good enough.</p>
<p>Also yeah what’s with the ambiguous thread titles? </p>
<p>Anyways my best friend’s girlfriend and a girl who has a big crush on me both are intellectually inferior to my best friend and me, respectively. He deals with it it seems, but ugh I can’t even stand to listen to her dull conversations. And one deterrent for the girl who has a crush on me (besides me not thinking she’s that attractive) is she seems kinda smart but she only succeeds because she puts in a lot of effort. </p>
<p>So I haven’t come across a girl who is definitively more academically capable than I am. Like if they are a better writer than I am a better mathematician and vice-versa. So I don’t know how I’d react. But I am turned off by girls who are dumber than me, but there are things that can more than compensate for that :).</p>
<p>What about the other way around?
My SAT score was better than that of my boyfriend, before his rich-a$$ parents decided to ship him off to SAT boot camp, effectively ruining my summer.</p>
<p>My boyfriend has about a 2.9 and I have a 3.93. He’s not dumb by any means (has a 2310 on the SAT), just lazy. He’s going to junior college next year, and I’m applying to Ivies and the like.</p>
<p>^2.9 and 2310??? With that kind of potential, why didn’t he work harder for good grades? Who knows, maybe you and him could’ve both gotten into the same ivy.</p>
<p>Him could’ve got into real good ivy</p>
<p>^ Considering past applicants use that sort of grammar… I would have to agree</p>
<p>Yeah, I know. It’s pretty sad, but he’s addicted to video games. He’ll transfer to a good school, I bet.</p>
<p>I think this is hard to answer for people who haven’t experienced it. Theoretically we may say that it’s ok, but I’ve seen it really get to some people. I had a thing for a guy who was pretty above-average intelligence wise, but he was definitely far from perfect. He dated this girl for about a year who had straight A’s, beat his grades in his best subjects, spent time volunteering at three different places, and was (well, still is) perfectly cute and groomed. It drove him crazy and he eventually ended up cheating on her. Whether or not her perfection caused his infidelity is up in the air, but I think it ended up being a real deal-breaker.</p>
<p>Seriously? I’m SO confused here. I thought MOST boys would find it a girl more attractive if the girl were more capable than them. Is it because you fear the girl will leave you? Or that you fear the girl would dominate you?</p>
<p>As for me, I wouldn’t even know. In my situation, it’s so hard to determine who’s more “capable,” probably due to my severe ADHD. Some people get higher grades than me, and are faster than I am most of the time. But I get occasional moments of hyperfocus where I can REALLY excel beyond my frustrating state of profound inattentiveness. In general, I can easily outargue most people who are more analytically talented than I am. But a lot of this is because I’m hypercurious so I’ll spend much more time looking up examples and counterexamples, and also because I just don’t have the emotional bullcrap that makes people so incredibly irrational (there are studies showing that those with Asperger’s Syndrome are more rational anyways). If people were as rational and curious as I am, then maybe they’d actually seem as smart as their analytical skills would otherwise indicate.</p>
<p>I think the idea is that it could be emasculating to have a more successful significant other.</p>
<p>For me, the most important factors are her mind & personality. Not only does she have to have something upstairs, but she needs charm as well. She has to be intelligent, clever and witty, but not to the point where it’s a turn off. (It’s not WHAT YOU SAY, but HOW YOU SAY IT.)</p>
<p>This is what I’ve been desiring fir years. Still hasn’t happened. Girls at my school just concede defeat.</p>
<p>My boyfriend and I are the perfect example of this.</p>
<p>He isn’t dumb by any means. But he’s average, he didn’t try hard at all in highschool, and got a mixture of As, Bs, and Cs. His SATs were also around the national average, all around 570-600. He never studied, rarely did homework, and almost missed too many days in school. Likewise it took him a while to get a job, and now he works part time while saving up to go to junior college.</p>
<p>Then there’s me. I get straight As. Take every advanced course my school offers, and then some that my school doesn’t. I got a perfect CR score of 800 on my SAT, and a competitive total score. I work 38 hours a week, while taking all advanced classes, while applying to top colleges, while volunteering as much as I can (about 4 hours a week), while practicing for upcoming competitions in forensics and such. </p>
<p>Where he is laid back, I am hard-working. But, its not really like that either. Everything I do I do as though I have to, not as though I’m driven to or something. We’ve been dating for more than a year now. </p>
<p>So it can work. But it really depends on the people. Our personalities mesh so well together. And he has never had any problem with me being more capable. He is proud of me, comforts me when I am upset, tries to help me as much as he can. I think what also helps is we both have the same type of broken background. And when you have a broken childhood, you really can only be with someone of the like. Nobody else will really understand you. He is full of common-sense, and though we are both practical, he is the one that can always keep a cool head, keep things going, and seems to just understand things in a way that most intellectual people can’t. We adore each other in every way though.</p>
<p>How hot is she?</p>
<p>Yeah! It would be great to get married to a chick who cleans and does the laundry and makes dinner and has an awsome job so then you could just watch the house and go shopping. They would like to too cause then they would think they are more in control and better then you. Thats a win win.</p>
<p>Not sure who you’re talking to, funstuff? If you’re addressing me, though… I’m a girl so I obviously have some problems with the way I look. I’ve always been told I’m attractive though and get approached by men a lot. But its really in the eye of the beholder and all that.</p>
<p>There’s this one girl at my school who is SGA VP, organizes Relay For Life for the school, is in charge of the pep rallys, etc…as a junior. She’s amazingly competent and her ass look soft. I would definitely date her or hire her.</p>