Why do some men hate intelligent women?

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A lot of men, especially in the Bible Belt, seem to hate intelligent women. My older brother dated women who generally just cared about shopping for shoes, clothes, and liked silly drama like Sex and The City and would make fun of women trying to get into the science fields. I remember once telling him about the story of Lilith, Adam's first wife if you are familiar with Judaism, and how she was cast out of Eden for wanting to be treated equally and he laughed while saying "She complained!".

The bible's pretty much a mirror for the reader, as well as a lot of the Hebrew midrashes like the midrash of Lilith.

I've had the urge/tendency to see the story of Adam's wives Lilith and Eve not being about women but being relationships with the earth - ie. getting eaten by lions, tigers, and bears vs. being able to tame domestic wildlife, farm, and leave the hunter/gather life (in a way Cain and Abel remind me of that as well - ie. the farmer killing the hunter/gatherer). I've also tried working with the goddess Lilith, mainly that I get the impression that the black snake coiled around her is a symbol of raw kundalini/fohat metabolized from the earth and the story I told myself on that - she takes the evil that gets sumped off of the world, draws it to herself, dialectically breaks it back down into its raw components, and sends it back up as raw/liberated energy - ie. a bit like an energy recycling dakini.

For the guys you know who hate intelligent women I think it's self-explanatory. Are they fundamentalist believers in an Abrahamic faith? If you can check 'yes' on that then you also know that they say, with perfectly straight faces, that women are supposed to be subordinate to men - by nature and by gender, even dumb men. I've met preachers who've been absolutely adamant that it be so, 'It's not me! It's YHVH! Salvation or perdition, you chose!'

It's probably for the best that dumb women are like this about intelligent men as well. I wouldn't want to see an intelligent woman with guys who think that way, you probably wouldn't either. Similarly I'm glad that the more needy, manipulative, or shallow a girl is the more she usually hates me on first sight - makes my life a lot easier! To think I could have been a police man, firefighter, military guy, or some other 'real man' in uniform that they'd go after - and then I'd have to sort the wheat from the chaff on my own rather than having the chaff sort itself out for me!

Even atheists have this view. Have you ever visited a Red Pill website? Apparently they're just biologically superior because of the way they've evolved differently to women and women don't even understand what they really want and need a man to tell them what they really want.

Some men like to feel superior and strong and manly. An intelligent woman threatens that.

Of course, that also helps me weed out the undesirables. I don't want a man who thinks he can only be manly if his partner is less intelligent.

What's red pill?

Hate = not attracted to?

You must be new here or have managed to avoid L&D.

There's some good discussions on red pill forums like why are so many men at risk of suicide? Why are there little to no shelters for male domestic abuse survivors?

But then there's the 'it's scientifically proven that women are inferior' threads, which are just depressing to read in the 21st century.



I'm a little ranty about this atm because this really lovely atheist guy I know revealed that he's an advocate of red pill philosophy. So I visited the various forums to find out more and was quite shocked.

I'm a peace and love kinda gal. To me it's needlessly divisive and doesn't take into account intelligent, none game playing women who want to be respected.

Broke my heart really.

Well you seem to be assuming that cause women likento shop, makeup, and watch tv that they're not intelligent. That's wrong. Also I don't think women who aren't in science fields or even don't have s college degree are not intelligent. I don't think education equals intelligent. Lots of women love shopping for clothes and such i don't understand it but I love shopping for guns, video games, tools and shaving.


I see more of the opposite why do "intelligent" women dislike not super intelligent men?

I really hope it's not try that intelligent Women don't like tv or shopping. Why do so called intelligent people all arrogantly think their so much superior to others?

I dunno about those men, but my Dad, okay Missouri is not the classic Bible Belt, picked a brainy chick. Since I grew up with Mom being a brainy chick I think that kind of impacted what I like. Plus I've seen what happened when friends and relatives got mixed up with some not exactly genius material ones.

And as for that Bible thing, I think it supports smart women - for example dumb people don't go around making successful real estate deals, from Proverbs 31,
"16 She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard."
If she got enough earnings to buy a field and then enough to pay for planting a vineyard, she's no dummy.
"18 She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night."
"24 She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes."

And then in the New Testament there is a gal named Lydia who was a successful dye supplier, and was probably a textiles dealer too, and owned a house. Again, she's no dummy.

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I believe Missouri---especially the southern part, is regarded as "Bible-Belt" territory.

I am a man who really, really gets turned on by intelligence.

I don't know, I never bothered asking a man who hates intelligent women why. I do have some hypotheses, however.

1) Like attracts like. A stupid man will generally not do well with an intelligent woman. The inverse is also true.

2) If one is intelligent one is more likely to be independently minded and more difficult to control by a stupid person. Lower intelligence is generally correlated with higher conservatism, and a conservative stupid man might not like having a partner who doesn't know their place, as he sees it, and is more difficult to control or manipulate without resorting to brute force.

3) They feel threatened by someone who is more capable than them in certain fields, especially anything pertaining to the intellectual. Having someone who is smarter than them can be a constant reminder of their own inadequacies and they hate that, so they become bullies and misogynists.

I grew up in the "Bible Belt," have lived my entire life here, and I don't know a single human being who HATES intelligent women, or smart people in general, for that matter. Funny how you seem to equate a particular region with ignorance and prejudice, when historically, some of the most educated thinkers, writers and military leaders in United States' history have been born, raised and educated in the so-called "Bible Belt." Perhaps you've been misled.

I've seen PLENTY of so-called "educated" types who sneer at anyone without a degree, and look down their purple noses at "ignorant rubes" who do not share their carefully programmed psycho-political indoctrination, or have a sheepskin to document it, but never the other way 'round.

I have seen people educated by life in the 'School of Hard Knocks,' wizened over many years by common sense and practical experience, express frustration with know-it-alls who think their formal education makes them smarter, faster, stronger, better and morally superior to anyone else in the room, but irritation with arrogance is far from "hate."

That said, in terms of choosing partners when it comes to romantic attractions, I do think, as the saying goes: "Water seeks it's own level," meaning people are more likely to find common interests with those who already possess similar qualities and characteristics. Again, not "hate."

You totally misunderstood my post, sly.

I do not think women who like shopping, make up, and watching TV are dumb. I am talking about ones who think they are only good for shopping for shoes and watching sappy TV shows as well as blabbering on cellphones.



I live in a city where if you say something like "European", the response will be "Your-a-peein'!" and questions like "If we came from munkies, why do we still got munkies?" on a daily basis. My father's side of the family are rednecks and they are extremely lazy (They literally just sit around and wonder why they are so fat. They don't even farm anymore) as well as stupid. Despite most of the people I run into on a daily basis claiming to be "Christian", they spend most of their social lives at the dive bars and strip joints as well as reek of beer and cigarette smoke.

I grew up and still live in the Bible Belt.

That looks like the source of their problem is them, not the Bible.

A lot of stupid people really just flat-out don't like intelligent people, they even assume that there's something wrong with them more often than not because they can't make sense of the person's behavior. Really, quite often, it seems like the more subtle things seem out of place with a person the more triggered they get. I'm kinda getting the drift that it's not so much that they just love living in very small/narrow worlds - it's all they're capable of and anything foreign endangers their internal stability in frightful ways.

That may be true but Bible Belt rednecks still uphold the ideal that men are dominant over women and women should be subservient. Most of them don't even read the bible, they just use Christianity as a mask.