Cal has a lot of attractive girls. Anytime you have thousands and thousands of people there will be attractive girls. And there are plenty who take care of themselves. I think in general they just might care more about other, MORE IMPORTANT, things. Do you think spending a ton of time attending to your body is better than spending time trying to reach educational heights?--or how about giving to your community, working to make the world a better place? There are many, many more important things than your body; of course, I think many Americans have lost sight of that, if they ever understood.</p>
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i think a lot of it has to do with UCLA being in LA, an area that is known for hollywood and thus for people trying extra hard to try and look like the celebraties they see, at CAL the girls just dont have to try.
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Yeah...and since that is obviously stupid (trying extra hard to look like celebrities), Cal wins in that category.</p>
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You can be smart and beautiful. You can reach "educationl heights" and do your eyebrows as well.
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DUH--it's a matter of priorities, where the priorities lie. I said in my post: "I think in general they just might care more about other, MORE IMPORTANT, things. Notice the "more," yeah. And if the higher priority caused the lower priority to be neglected on a given day, yeah that's fine. </p>
<p>Frankly, the idea that girls must always strive to look good is really harmful. Think about it. It's merely social norms that work to pigeonhole girls into a position where they must focus profusely on their bodies, their appearance, their attractiveness. I think it's harmful to education, and the result is a whole legion of girls that is obsessed with tv shows like Laguna Beach and the array of MTV shows that feature rich, bratty girls having decadent parties. A focus on the body leads to a focus on material things, leads to a focus on money------superficiality-----hopefully you get the point.</p>
<p>I dont watch any of those shows, i wasnt raised in america, and as much as i can see your point i also disagree with you as well. </p>
<p>A woman is a woman for a reason, we should be beutiful and gentle and so forth, because otherwise you guys can just date each other. </p>
<p>I dont belive that those other things are necesserly more important, for example when i was pursuing my desire to go to UCLA, i was also trying to become healthy and loose a lot of weight and so forth, and as much as school was important to me, so was my body. </p>
<p>Your not going to get very far without taking care of your body, granted there is a line between only caring for your body, and between being obssesed and wanting to be like the girls on Laguna beach. There is a diffrence in that, but both are important, ........ lets put it this way, if a girl comes in and she graduated form Berkley in X major and she is applying for a job, but she looks like crap, and a girl comes in from UCLA looking groomend and pretty and put together applying for the same job, the UCLA girl is more likely to get the job, the way you look does matter in life, you dont have to be goregeous, but you have to take care of yourself and look your best, so i dont think its ok to let those things slip in pursuit of education.</p>
<p>I try to maintain a good physical and mental balance....ex. going to the gym for an hour and then reading a book for two. I feel it's very important that both the body and mind need to be kept up...feeling great about yourself and your mind is an amazing combination. Although at times I find it hard striking up a conversation about the recent C.S. Lewis novels i've been reading with the girls at my school. I find its better not to be boisterous about the books you've read and to read them for your own personal enjoyment. I must admit i'm getting tired of socializing with less intelligent girls (they do, however, tend to be absolutely gorgeous). The primordial drive works wonders, I find dumbed down teasing/flirting always works. Pretty much as long as they're good looking, keep their noses clean and have somewhat of a drive, any girl is fair game to me.</p>
<p>Besides there is some statistic that with every increase in a womans' IQ she becomes that much more less likely to marry and with every increase in a mans IQ he becomes that much more likely to marry. So in the future, it looks as though, i'll be stuck with a woman of a lower IQ, its human nature.</p>
<p>partners..in the gay community? or hetero, because in the hetero community, yes a woman will choose a man of higher intelligence to mate with. If you've seen studies that shows its common for a man to marry a woman of higher intelligence, I would love to see it!!</p>
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If you've seen studies that shows its common for a man to marry a woman of higher intelligence, I would love to see it!!
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I didn't say I care for any of these studies. I think they are all extremly, extremely, extremely, extremely dubious from start to finish. For instance, defining intelligence already turns most surveys into horse****.</p>
<p>And by the way, I said "equal or more intelligent." I do believe they point to men preferring equal as opposed to more intelligent mates. I'm sure men look for dumb women as casual sex partners, but not as women they want to have kids with. </p>