Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!chrism From: chrism@shark.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Intelligent and single women Message-ID: <795@shark.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 01:25:36 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.795 Posted: Mon Jun 11 01:25:36 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 06:12:28 EDT Sender: chrism@shark.UUCP Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 32 Speaks the wombat: >Mary Ann, I think the "woman must be less intelligent than man" >stereotype is pure (as Joe Bob would say) bullstuff. I have a hard time >even dating anyone who "can't keep up"...I tend to prefer women who are at >the same level (or higher) than I am...I would hope most men feel this way. Actually, my experience is that most men DON'T feel this way, even when they are fairly "liberated" in other respects. As for myself, I agree with the wombat; nothing is more boring than a date who intellectually is not your rough equivalent or better. (Unless you're looking for a simple pick-up, in which case intelligence is not necessarily a deciding factor). Now that this has been brought up, one of my biggest gripes is the lack of single, intelligent women in the engineering world. Much social life is necessarily work-oriented, and when it comes to sex-ratios, engineering has got to be one of the last bastions of overwhelming male numbers. (I should have listened to my parents and become a lawyer....). There just aren't that many women in the field, and thus few opportunities for a relationship. You can only date so many secretaries, you know. A real discouraging business. I think I'll call up Jeff Sargent and seek religious counseling. Chris Minson (P.S. But I think I have a solution. Yes, I really do. Regretably, I am not going to tell you what it is.)