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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are Republican men so intimidated by intelligent women?
I've wondered about this for years. They like their women to be good-looking and empty-headed. Why are they so threatened by a woman with a brain?
Deuxcents
(26,736 posts)mr715
(3,472 posts)SocialDemocrat61
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FadedMullet
(900 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(11,681 posts)in many ways. And they know it.
DBoon
(24,952 posts)and an intelligent woman threatens their very existence
Demobrat
(10,297 posts)Skittles
(171,537 posts)they know creeps when they see them
usonian
(25,064 posts)People project their fears, weaknesses and failures onto others.
Beats "manning up"
A "Real Man" lifts others up, helps them learn and grow, and protects the weak.
Easier to blame someone else for everything. Turn wine into water, they do.
Orrex
(67,061 posts)A smart, assertive woman makes it difficult for them to maintain their pathological alpha male fantasies.
betsuni
(29,041 posts)The insecure prefer a brand they know others in their group will approve of.
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,871 posts)God gave them two heads. They are incapable of thinking with either one of them.
These men lack intellectual curiosity, a sense of adventure. They see any change as a THREAT because of that.
EDUCATED women with brains are smart to avoid such men.
Aristus
(72,114 posts)Im a pretty smart guy, and I love strong, intelligent women. Im pretty sure most intelligent men do.
The repukes worship stupidity and ignorance. And their fear of intelligent women is a symptom of that.
Bettie
(19,645 posts)that's the long and short of it.
Some of them may be "smart", but they are hobbled by their inability to see beyond the end of their own wants. Most of them are not so much intelligent but they have a kind of opportunistic cunning that allows them to see where they can screw others over for their own benefit.
This goes along with not having a general sense of morality. Every right winger I know has the same attitude: if it benefits me personally, it's what "god" wants!
They are intimidated by women (and men, to a lesser extent) who are truly smart. They also don't like listening to people who have actual answers, because they labor under the delusion that they alone have all the answers to everything.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,790 posts)Why do Republican men prefer sex with 13-year-olds? Because they're intimidated by actual women, especially intelligent women.