Why are smart women regarded as either unnattractive or complete prudes?
353551
They're not. Silly question. \n\nSmart women are hot.
940001
Because women are attention-whores who like to manipulate and mess with your head.\n\nAct like an azzhole and you'll do OK.
882259
Listen to the song "Miss Me Blind" for the full context.\nBasically, I think they are saying that some people get by on sexiness instead of brains.
652268
Women who are either\noverbearing or too domineering in one extreme to women who are too submissive at the other.\n\nI'd like the woman to be, well a sort of an equal partner in my life.\n\nlooks come and go, the brains, the beauty within is what matters!
368748
She doesn't want to get the label, "Nerd", "dork", or "geek" so she acts stupid so people won't know she's smart.  I do that all the time.  I am a smart, nice girl and it's just like that saying with guys, "nice guys finish last."  The same is true with girls.  Only the stupid, flirty, gorgeous girls have lots of dates.  Us smart, nice, average looking girls have a hard time so we act dumb hoping to get the guys to notice us.
21152
This term was not particuraly coined by any single person, but became an accepted sterotype due to the influence of famous, beautiful but not-very-bright women that populated early 1950's era movies. A well-known example would be Marilyn Monroe, who could not sing nor dance but was very attractive.
928000
blonde by choice here, kinda tall, lil above average, yet most people find me intelligent and treat me with respect.  it's not just the hair, it's also the image we reflect to the world.  if we say "like" a lot, if we say "y'know," if we crack gum or twirl our hair in our fingers and dress like a bimbo, then we're treated as stupid and easy.  if a woman is attractive and blonde, and has a good bod, yet respects herself, she commands respect from her peers.  if she invites that type of treatment, then shame on her if she doesn't like it.  it's all in the presentation babe.  hope this helped!!
661444
I have a problem with this black and white / cut and dried assumption that a girl is either pretty OR she is intelligent. Most girls have some of both qualities.\nSomewhere society has assumed if she good looking shes dumb and if shes clever she must look like a bulldog chewing a wasp. Not true.
826202
i dunno who quoted it, but..\nit is largly stereotyped that beautiful females are stupid...\nso, when people say "beauty AND the brains" its like saying "wow, shes beautiful AND she's smart, how rare..."\nthis is alos thought of because of the way nerds are stereotyped. \nyou dont typiacally think of beauty when you hear the word nerd.
944350
You know, I am a smart person, I have always been smart, I am also very pretty. But there seen to be these guys that only want girls that want to give themselves to them. I'm not like that. But a lot of smart girls are forced to become that way because we don;t get guys, we can be the most gorgeous women in the world, but if we don;t have sex right away, the relationship goes nowhere and we are left on our butts wonder " what the hell was that?" Look beyond the most obvious, look for the inner beauty (not saying some snaggle-toothed hill billy) but look for a woman that may not be the blonde hair, blue eye buety every other man wants. You may just find the right smart, attractive woman you want.
445303
By being selective in what we watch and allow our children to watch.  It appears that young women now would rather have a boob job than a university degree.  That means they aspire to be attractive to men rather than to develop their own intellect.  I am also concerned about the increase of pole-dancing clubs, turning women into sex objects, no wonder men have no respect for us.
809754
The only way I would have a tape is with my husband who I fully trust, never with just some guy I hardly know, thats stupid, the girl never really knows where that tape could end up,etc.  So those women are smart and apparently your a pervert.
605003
Girls are smarter at the outset but that is their nature in the long run they are normally incorrect if she has no gender complications.  Guys do not like telling half truths besides girls still hate rejection as this society still treats them the same as yesterday.
598909
It is true that women still get paid less than men and very few women are holding leadership position. However, the Vitorian perception that men are "naturally" smarter and more intellectually capable than women is no longer held to be true. In fact, there are more elected female leaders (in the world) right now than at any point in history. The fact that these leaders receive strong supports from both male and female constituents shows the rising level of respects that men have for women as intellectual partners. As further proof, recent surveys indicate that the majority of men think that women are just as intellectually capable than they are. Today's women have earned the respect as intellectual co-equal.
908242
both women and men are wise, only that women have intuition..i think this makes them a bit smarter...or not :))..still..i didn't get the question
900779
genetic mostly, lazy preety important, and most people don't like reading and studying, but rather day and night think of women and how to woo them. This trait is uniform in most humans but the most brilliant and threfore it is mostly a morphological trait.
432575
the average man is controlled by pride and ego and by being a chauvinist it boosts their self esteem. they want to be in controll of their affairs and want to be in command therefore they prefer women to either be or pretend to be less important, intelligent or able than they are.