Quickies
Quickies: Men are afraid to date smart women, period undies ads not okayed for NYC subway, and growing extra teeth
- Apparently men are threatened by smart women, because of course they are – “The study found that while men are theoretically into the idea of dating intelligent women — you know, like, in a hypothetical dream world in which masculinity isn’t so fragile and threatened by the slightest displays of female power — in the reality of day-to-day life, they’d vastly prefer dating a woman who’s less intelligent than them.”
- Ads for period underwear might be too lewd for NYC subway – “The ads that plaster New York City’s subway system have shown women in the throes of passion, showing off most of their breasts, and wearing just a skimpy bikini—or nothing at all. Can’t they show a woman in a full shirt and modest underwear?” From Jaime.
- Experts may be able to teach your mouth to grow extra teeth – “Biologists want to manipulate your mouth to do something extraordinary: grow extra teeth. And they’re getting their advice from fish.”
- Trans teen elected homecoming queen amongst accusations of rigged voting – “Trenton Central High School crowned its first trans homecoming queen, Jae Irizarry, this past Friday. Not long after that, a story came out in the local paper, The Trentonian, saying that the “vote was a fraud.””
When I first read “Period Underwear”, I pictured Victorian bloomers and thought “How racy could that be?”
Then I read the actual article…
You know, I remember getting my extra eye teeth out along with my wisdom teeth.
So I am just going to nope nope nope nope my way as far from that article about growing extra teeth as is humanly possible. D:
Really? Men are threatened by smart women? Or is this one of those evopsych ‘studies’ that doesn’t bother to actually interview real people and consists entirely of “If I can prove this might have been advantageous at some point in the past, then it explains some aspect of human behavior that isn’t really normative but let’s pretend it is.” so popular on the Learning Channel before they decided reality TV stars were the modern-day aristocrats?
Obviously, if the headline had referenced the second half of the article about men not wanting to be around/date intelligent women (except when they do), the clickbait potential would have been reduced too much.
wow, men don’t like dating intelligent women. Generalization much? My so is very intelligent and we are happily in love.