Beware the man who tells you he likes brains over beauty

So it looks like friend to all men Tanya Sweeney is at it again today. She is clearly right about men, because she has two masters degrees don't you know.

Anyway this time she has issues with men who claim to be attracted to intelligent women or attracted to funny women. We have ulterior motives you see.

Her issue seems to stem from English musician and producer Mark Ronson who recently self identified as 'sapiosexual', which Tanya says is 'a term that describes people who date across the gender spectrum and find brains and intellect the most attractive trait in a potential partner.' Who, incidentally, would would find Tanya 'irresistible'.

Any time a man says openly, 'I love curvy women', he often means he likes curvy women, albeit only up to a point, and usually within the parameters of 'socially accepted' curves. As in, Christina Hendricks, hourglass, huge-boobs-and-tiny-waist curves. Similarly, I've heard many men say time and time again that they love, like are really turned on by, funny women. This too, is absolute bunkum. They don't like women to be too funny, or (heaven forfend) funnier than they are. What they usually mean is, 'I like a woman to laugh at my jokes and will be sound and not uptight enough that they will put up with my sh**'.

Likewise, 'I'm attracted to nerdy women' can be loosely translated into 'I want a hot girl who also knows about Doctor Who, so I won't bore them half to death when I go on about it'.

In fairness, she does make the effort at the end to point out that even though she says 'men' she doesn't mean all men and gives us the lovely hashtag #NotAllMen

Incidentally, I feel the need to add a massive #NOT ALL MEN addendum here, as there are several guys who take serious umbrage at being tarred with a great big misandrist brush when I describe some of the men I've encountered.

These guys are especially annoyed given that they are perfectly woke, feminist citizens who've never done wrong by a single woman at all, ever. In my experience though, the men who shout #NotAllMen the loudest can often be misogyny's worst offenders. A real male feminist knows full well what women have had to put up with from some men, and wouldn't dream of getting in our way if we call out such bad behaviour. Trust me when I say, we hear your #NotAllMen bleating. Don't think we don't see you.

Charming!

Sounds like we have another Una Mullally or Louise O'Neil on our hands.