Portia wrote:Werf_Must wrote:Woah 0_o now if I could pull something like that off, I would love it!
However, I bet it is harder to date because A) You intimidate guys when you say you're a lawyer B) they employ all the lawyer stereotypes and C) some guys are probably intimidated by a girl who has had more schooling than they have...
My theory is to give those guys a figurative slap upside the head. SRSLY--especially if you're put back two years in your education because of a mission, how could a well-educated woman be a turn-off?
In my opinion, most times when a girl thinks that her greater education is a turn-off, that is not the real problem. Sometimes it is. I've known men who feel inferior to anyone, male or female, when they didn't go to college and felt like they should have. Anyone with a college degree makes them feel like they are being put down. They take offense at the slightest provocation. They attempt to put down others with college degrees. I had a companion (who had no college education at all) whose last companion had been a college graduate. My companion told me that his former companion "Came running out of the bathroom one day crying, 'The toilet is overflowing! What do I do?' Hmmph! And he had a college degree!" Later, when I talked to the former companion about it he dryly told me, "I guess I missed the class in plumbing."
I think the real problem for both men and women is usually not that others are more learned, it is that when some people are learned they think they are wise, and they are puffed up in the pride of their hearts. Few things are more of a turn-off for a man than a woman who ridicules a man because he doesn't come up to her standards of education. She may not even be aware of her mostly non-verbal communication which puts men down. Or she thinks she is just being clever in her displays of knowledge designed to put the man at a disadvantage.
A well-educated woman, one who is kind and thoughtful, who tries to make others feel comfortable and secure, doesn't need to hide her intelligence or her education. She just can't use her superior education to seek to dominate or dismiss men, and expect to be loved in return.
