Beware the man who tells you he likes brains over beauty

25-09-2019 01:24PM

I can half see what she is trying to get at (although it's hardly a shocker that if someone would want a partner who is intelligent they'd want them to be attractive too), but it's really written in a hackle raising way, to really try and be offensive to men in general. And then the bit at the end is a classic, if you don't like what I said you must be a mysoginist.. awful ****. The type of guys who are like she describes are a tiny minority of men as far as I can see, if she's meeting them more often the she's the one doing something wrong

TNETENNBA · 25-09-2019 01:24PM

It's cute when a genuinely laughs at one of my jokes and his face lights up. But I'm afraid to tell a man he's cute in case I come across as a creep. #struggleofanaveragelookingwoman

JohnnyFlash · 25-09-2019 01:31PM

A chick with huge norks and plenty of brains is a class combination.

odyssey06 · 25-09-2019 01:32PM

'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'.

Also, important that the girl agrees that Doctor Who is best played by a male actor, and girls should stick to their proper place as companions in distress.

mikhail · 25-09-2019 01:38PM

Woke Hogan wrote: »

She sounds like one of those incels.

She really does.

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

She has a kid so not an incel.

Sounds like doesn't mean is. If the article is her opinion (and not some cynical click bait - which is almost worse), she has exactly the sort of chip on her shoulder as the MGTOW crowd.

But if you flipped this article and a man wrote that women, #notallwomen mind, talk bollocks about wanting a nice, kind man that respects them but really want either a rich CEO type that looks like Brad Pitt or a Bad Boy that treats them like **** all the time but they still "can't get enough", you'd be labelled every pejorative under the sun.

And rightly so.

EmmetSpiceland · 25-09-2019 01:38PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

'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'.

Also, important that the girl agrees that Doctor Who is best played by a male actor, and girls should stick to their proper place as companions in distress.

I, personally, wouldn’t mind being a “companion in distress” for Jodie Whittaker.

Earthhorse · 25-09-2019 01:42PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I, personally, wouldn’t mind being a “companion in distress” for Jodie Whittaker.

A woman doctor and a woman assistant?

Dunno, sounds a bit sexist to me.

TheValeyard · 25-09-2019 01:46PM

I'm pretty sure reading those kinds of opinion pieces will give you brain damage.

banie01 · 25-09-2019 01:48PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

I only make passes at girls with glasses.

FYP

Earthhorse · 25-09-2019 01:55PM

TheValeyard wrote: »

I'm pretty sure reading those kinds of opinion pieces will give you brain damage.

At which point, you can turn your hand to writing them.

EmmetSpiceland · 25-09-2019 01:58PM

Earthhorse wrote: »

A woman doctor and a woman assistant?

Dunno, sounds a bit sexist to me.

I am not a woman, E.

Earthhorse · 25-09-2019 01:59PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I am not a woman, E.

Sure you're not, Emmet, sure you're not.

jam_mac_jam · 25-09-2019 02:02PM

This is such bollox of course there are men that like brains. A lot of intelligent men like intelligent women, its nice to have something to talk about.

You also can have brains and be good looking as well. Stupid woman.

odyssey06 · 25-09-2019 02:06PM

Ok so we know that Tanya Sweeney was out and about, and some guy tried it on with the "I prefer brains over beauty" line... then what happened?

I demand closure on this anecdote.

Reviews and Books Galore · 25-09-2019 02:07PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I am not a woman, E.

I am quite shocked tbh.

randd1 · 25-09-2019 02:07PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Ok so we know that Tanya Sweeney was out and about, and some guy tried it on with the "I prefer brains over beauty" line... then what happened?

I demand closure on this anecdote.

If she's really ugly it might work.

Dr. Bre · 25-09-2019 02:08PM

All men are from Mars so Mars bastards

banie01 · 25-09-2019 02:10PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

Ok so we know that Tanya Sweeney was out and about, and some guy tried it on with the "I prefer brains over beauty" line... then what happened?

I demand closure on this anecdote.

Obviously he moved on when she was too clever for him and then he rode the arse off her pretty friend with a terrible leaving cert and great tits

Wayne Jarvis · 25-09-2019 02:17PM

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

This is such bollox of course there are men that like brains. A lot of intelligent men like intelligent women, its nice to have something to talk about.

You also can have brains and be good looking as well. Stupid woman.

She is not stupid. She said herself she has two master's (sic) degrees and she has read Ulysses.

odyssey06 · 25-09-2019 02:20PM

Guy Person wrote: »

She is not stupid. She said herself she has two master's (sic) degrees and she has read Ulysses.

In the original Latin, no doubt.

jam_mac_jam · 25-09-2019 02:24PM

Guy Person wrote: »

She is not stupid. She said herself she has two master's (sic) degrees and she has read Ulysses.

Well I think she is stupid. And that's all that maters.

Feisar · 25-09-2019 02:25PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

In the original Latin, no doubt.

I think yer mixing up Homer and James Joyce.

odyssey06 · 25-09-2019 02:37PM

Feisar wrote: »

I think yer mixing up Homer and James Joyce.

Shhhh... if you think someone is only pretending to have read it to appear cultured, it's a good way to put them on the back foot

Apiarist · 25-09-2019 02:47PM

py2006 · 25-09-2019 02:49PM

Cristiano Tart Space-age wrote: »

Sadly, most intelligent men who appreciate intelligent women will be unlikely to read her trenchant analysis, given that she chose to publish it in the Indo.

Doh, I just read it...

kirving · 25-09-2019 03:11PM

Guy Person wrote: »

She is not stupid. She said herself she has two master's (sic) degrees and she has read Ulysses.

I work with lots of people who have PhD's and are at the top of their field in the industry. Not one of them has ever mentioned their qualifications. Ever. Nor do they rely on their qualifications when disagreements arise.

It takes a special kind of person to state it in the first line of their newspaper column, as if it gives them some sort of credibility

And yet, the author doesn't mention in what field they're in. I can only guess that they're either irrelevant to the debate, or wouldn't be particularly well regarded.

25-09-2019 03:17PM

Tanya's a dope

#notalltanyas

lertsnim · 25-09-2019 03:20PM

She's not wrong about Christina Hendricks though.

Earthhorse · 25-09-2019 03:23PM

I think the line about her qualifications and having read Ulysses may be jokes.

I wouldn't be able to tell meself what with not liking women who are funnier than I am.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 25-09-2019 03:42PM

I'm not creating an indo account to read that rubbish (or for any reason) but I gotta say she's got me on the first paragraph!

Anyone, anyone at all who ever, in any unironic context, identifies themselves as a sapiosexual is a massive bellend. Anyone who insists on identifying themselves as a sapiosexual while having a romantic history like Ronson's is a massiver one. There's nothing wrong with saying "I like intelligent, attractive women" like, insisting "I am attracted purely to intellect; age, gender identity, appearance, none of these things matter, my sexuality is based purely around the attractiveness of intelligence. Here are my exes who are all young, female, and gorgeous by some bizarre coincidence. Because I'm really interesting and special and have this superior sexuality y'see".

But yes the rest of the article does seem like the usual inflammatory nonsense that papers keep publishing because people keep reading it to work themselves up into a righteous little footstomp, generating revenue for the publisher by raising their own blood pressure.

I'm going to go ahead and go back to having no fcuking clue who this woman is.

Beware the man who tells you he likes brains over beauty

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