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October 30, 2014 at 2:38 PM #779706October 30, 2014 at 2:42 PM #779707
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Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
I want a stoic daughter of a tiger mom.[/quote]
To each his own, I guess. I wouldn’t want stoic. My wife is lively and fun and sparkly, and I love it.
October 30, 2014 at 2:52 PM #779708Participant[quote=zk]In my opinion, you can be of high intellect and be simple at the same time. I’m pretty sure I’m both.[/quote]
Boy, that sounded way more like bragging than I wanted it to.
Maybe it would sound less so if my opinion of intelligence were known. Being of high intellect is, really, almost worthless by itself. It’s rarely what determines how far you get in life financially. It’s more likely to hinder than help socially. Chicks don’t necessarily dig it. What’s it good for? Inventing stuff, maybe. I don’t know. Not much.
Hard work will get you more than intelligence. Social skills will get you a hundred times more in life than intelligence.
October 30, 2014 at 3:11 PM #779710FlyerInHi
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To each his own, I guess. I wouldn’t want stoic. My wife is lively and fun and sparkly, and I love it.[/quote]Yeah, but that doesn’t necessarily make the matriarch of a family. Generally, strong woman are better at managing their families and making sure all the kids are accomplished. That includes making sure the husband is well dressed and good-looking, otherwise that would reflect badly on her.
October 30, 2014 at 3:36 PM #779713Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=zk]
To each his own, I guess. I wouldn’t want stoic. My wife is lively and fun and sparkly, and I love it.[/quote]Yeah, but that doesn’t necessarily make the matriarch of a family. Generally, strong woman are better at managing their families and making sure all the kids are accomplished. That includes making sure the husband is well dressed and good-looking, otherwise that would reflect badly on her.[/quote]
As usual, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Anymore, it seems you’re just trolling and not to be taken seriously.
But just in case…
I’m not sure whether you were implying otherwise, but my wife is the strongest and wisest woman I know. She really is quite something. If she has a fault, it’s putting too much effort into making sure our daughter is accomplished. As for making sure the husband is good-looking, well, he was born that way and she didn’t have much to do with it. She does buy him nicer clothes than he used to wear, though. He still has a ways to go in that regard.
October 30, 2014 at 3:38 PM #779714UCGal
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]haha, zk. Not quite fair because men are of very high intellect. But they don’t let their emotions control them.
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Bwa ha ha ha ha hah ha hah ha haSeriously – I hope this was tongue in cheek – because it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
Generalize much?
October 30, 2014 at 4:02 PM #779715Participant[quote=UCGal][quote=FlyerInHi]haha, zk. Not quite fair because men are of very high intellect. But they don’t let their emotions control them.
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Bwa ha ha ha ha hah ha hah ha haSeriously – I hope this was tongue in cheek – because it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
Generalize much?[/quote]
Like I said, Brian seems to have turned into a troll. But, hey, at least he hasn’t done any political threadjacking since he’s been back.
October 30, 2014 at 4:18 PM #779716Participant[quote=UCGal]
Generalize much?[/quote]
There are times, though, for generalizations. Do women, generally, let their emotions control them more than men do? I think they do. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. Is generalizing about it a bad thing? Only if you apply it to an individual woman.
October 30, 2014 at 5:04 PM #779719scaredyclassic
ParticipantGenerally speaking it is scary to watch your dad cry.
It is not scary to watch your mom cry.
October 30, 2014 at 5:07 PM #779720Participant[quote=zk][quote=zk]In my opinion, you can be of high intellect and be simple at the same time. I’m pretty sure I’m both.[/quote]
Boy, that sounded way more like bragging than I wanted it to.
Maybe it would sound less so if my opinion of intelligence were known. Being of high intellect is, really, almost worthless by itself. It’s rarely what determines how far you get in life financially. It’s more likely to hinder than help socially. Chicks don’t necessarily dig it. What’s it good for? Inventing stuff, maybe. I don’t know. Not much.
Hard work will get you more than intelligence. Social skills will get you a hundred times more in life than intelligence.[/quote]
well I for one value you high intellectual horsepower for its own sake. Maybe it’s a Jewish thing. I wish my iq were higher. My 94th percentile LSAT score was basically in the borderline mentally retarded from a Jewish perspective.
October 30, 2014 at 8:33 PM #779728CA renter
Participant[quote=zk][quote=FlyerInHi]
I want a stoic daughter of a tiger mom.[/quote]
To each his own, I guess. I wouldn’t want stoic. My wife is lively and fun and sparkly, and I love it.[/quote]
She sounds awesome! 🙂
October 30, 2014 at 8:35 PM #779727Participant[quote=zk]Being of high intellect is, really, almost worthless by itself. It’s rarely what determines how far you get in life financially. It’s more likely to hinder than help socially. Chicks don’t necessarily dig it. What’s it good for? Inventing stuff, maybe. I don’t know. Not much.
Hard work will get you more than intelligence. Social skills will get you a hundred times more in life than intelligence.[/quote]
Absolutely agree with this.
October 30, 2014 at 8:36 PM #779729GuestI suppose to need to read more romance novels this weekend to better understand women.
October 30, 2014 at 8:45 PM #779730Participant[quote=zk][quote=UCGal]
Generalize much?[/quote]
There are times, though, for generalizations. Do women, generally, let their emotions control them more than men do? I think they do. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. Is generalizing about it a bad thing? Only if you apply it to an individual woman.[/quote]
I was going to agree with your original (stereotypical) assertion, but what about things like war for the sake or asserting power/control/ego, or the crazy infatuation so many men have with sports — something that doesn’t affect their lives one iota, but something that they will sacrifice their families for (football widows, and all that)? That’s not logical, that’s emotional. It just looks different, perhaps, from how women show their emotions.
As for women, my guess would be that women are wired differently because if we were 100% logical, humans would have died out a long, long time ago. It’s hormones and emotions that make a woman want to care for her child…and probably hormones that make a man want to do so, as well, though they often need some prompting from religion and law to make it happen to the same degree. Most women don’t need traditions, religion, and law to make them want to devote themselves entirely to their families.
Wealth and power mean a great deal in tradition, law, and religion. That might explain why men tend to be more driven than women. It probably is more logical, but there are emotions involved, too.
October 30, 2014 at 10:33 PM #779732Participant[quote=CA renter]
I was going to agree with your original (stereotypical) assertion, but what about things like war for the sake or asserting power/control/ego, or the crazy infatuation so many men have with sports — something that doesn’t affect their lives one iota, but something that they will sacrifice their families for (football widows, and all that)? That’s not logical, that’s emotional. It just looks different, perhaps, from how women show their emotions.
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Well, as far as war goes, I agree with you that it’s emotional and truly messed up. But most men, in their daily lives, don’t go to war.
Men don’t spend time apart from their women because of sports. Men spend time away from their women because they want to spend time away from their women.
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