Yeah....hence me not getting the somewhat crude innuendo....

I'M TIRED AND HUNGRY. LEAVE ME ALONE.

Define smart.
Academically gifted? Mechanically inclined? Broadly intrested in multiple subjects, and well socialized? Possesing a photographic memory, and the ability to think out of the box, but lacking social skills? Mensa member, but so concieted as to make conversation or relating to impossible, or undesireable?

I dated the people I did becuase I found the total package they presented as "self" attractive. Intelligences aren't limited to simply academics, :shrug:.


What's the next thread going to be, " Would you date a sick person, would you date an uber healthy athletic person, would you date a superhero, would you date a celebrity, would you a date a poltical figure, would you date a lunatic, would you date a nerd/geek or jock, would you date a half-woman-half-man-lycanthrope-with-porphyria-who-sparkles-in-the-sun?


Hmm, Sparkles-in-the-sun would be a good Argonian name, I gotta remember that for Skyrim.

If she can't keep up with me in an IQ score competition, or in a game of chess, the [censored] is gone. Only accepting the best of the best of the best, with fries and a coke.

Will you go out with me?

nvm

I consider myself to be of around average intelligence and would have no problem dating a very intelligent person. I think the bigger question is whether or not anyone truly smart would date me.

Honestly, there's so much more to people than their intelligence.

Much more goes into selecting a potential date than just how smart/dumb they are so.... not enough information to answer.

What if he uses his spiral energy to drill for the sky and do the impossible?

Only if they weren't snooty about it. Intelligence is attractive, but if they're like, to steal from Family Guy, "Manet, honey, not Monet. It's ok, lots of people make that mistake" and always correcting me in that way...not cool.

Well I'm pretty sure that everyone is smarter than me so I guess I'd have to :laugh:
It really all depends though by what we mean by stupid

Stupid as in annoying stupid-In which case then I'd rather shoot myself than stay in that relationship

Or stupid as in a lower IQ than the person they are dating-In which case then that might not be so bad so long as they had a good personality

That's so obvious that we may as well remove the "fun" and just have "Would you date a person?"

I am attracted to intelligence and how it translates to humor a lot, too. It's what got me interested in the first place. We've each got our own strong points and whatnot. He's big on math and science and creative writing. I svck at all three, but I can certainly write a good report, I can draw, and I can anolyze written work, so I edit his stories and we want to do a picture book one day. We're also both into computers, but he claims I know a lot more than he does. Funny because if I move back to NZ like I really want to after we get married and study at the same university we studied at, I will be majoring in Network Engineering and Education and I will be taking a lot of the same math and science classes he is taking or has taken in his Meteorology degree, so he'll be a big help to me. I love math, and I do well in math; I just forget concepts very easily and need personalized attention to grasp them.

In short: I'm already dating a former valedictorian.

Yes.

It's funny, I had that same idea. And I'll bet there would be some good arguments in the contrary to that one, as well.

If it was actually possible for such a person to exist, sure.

Self praise and glorification is in no way intelligent, quite the opposite in my opinion.

To realize that you are intelligent is a good thing. It doesn't necessarily mean they are self-righteous.


And yes, I would. Unless they make me feel inadequate with their outrageous intelligence or have other undesirable traits. So it would depend.

Well yeah sure, why not. I would love to.

as long as they aren't arrogant about it and rub something in your face when you get it wrong.

Smart women are attractive.

You are right, but I think intelligence and humility should go hand in hand. If you really are more intelligent than the average person, then you probably wouldn't feel any need to point it out. Whether I am smart or not is not for me to say, and all I can say about myself is that I am not a total idiot.

I find it very unattractive when people reflect upon their own intelligence.

Hahaha ... yeah, the flipside to the other thread.

There's no point going out with someone so much more intelligent than you that you just cannot keep up with them in conversation - it's frustrating for both parties. I think you pretty much need to be within about 20 IQ points of each other. I've always found men who are somewhat more intelligent than me to be really attractive. I mean, even socially. I have a friend at work who I'm not at all physically attracted to, but I just love listening to his ideas on things and really enjoy spending time with him. Being super-clever is like being super-beautiful - it just becomes magnetic. Then again, I work with someone who's even smarter than that, and I just feel like a total idiot every time I say anything at all by the water cooler - but don't worry too much because everyone must feel like that. You know, one of those boffins where nobody can accurately tell you what he even does for a living because it's too technical. I couldn't date someone like that because I'd just feel completely intimidated the whole time, and we just wouldn't have anything in common at all.

Then thinking of another friend, and he's extremely clever and well known for being clever - but he plays on it a lot. If he talks about films it's always the most obscure thing you've never heard of. I like a lot of the same music as him, but he doesn't like the popular bands that I like - only the really, really unheard of experimental stuff. The thing is, although it would be a bit unfair to call him a hipster with a humour deficit, I'm married to someone pretty much as smart as him but who likes goofy comedies and action flicks and FPSs, and I just find that mix a lot more comfortable to be around. You don't have to be self-consciously intellectual to be clever.

Hell yes I would. Im not a very bright person. So I need someone to be a good thinker. To deal with finances, ect ect. While I, could go and do the blue collar work.

I am dating a smart person. She got a 4.0 throughout high school, and a 4.0 the last semester in college, but she doesn't brag about it or anything. I hooked a good one for sure!

I would have trouble dating someone that was truly unintelligent, but I would rather date a person like that than one who was willfully ignorant. Generally speaking I prefer girls that are competent and intellectually curious, regardless of actual intelligence level. That having been said, I do think I might have trouble being in a relationship with a girl that was both considerably more intelligent than me and an expert in my field of study (philosophy if you were interested). I don't mind learning in a relationship, but I wouldn't want my professional ideas criticized all the time.