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Are men intimidated by a woman who is the full package?

A psychological observation (a clinical psychologist who video-interviewed me recently for his article told me these facts):

Male insecurity makes men behave weirdly, when they meet intelligent women.

When they actually have to interact with such a woman, something interesting happens, according to research.

In real-life face-to-face interactions — more insecure men move their chairs further away from intelligent women in rooms filled with people. That is, they avoid intelligent women.

If they are forced to interact when there are no people or familiar people around, they feel awkward most of the time and adopt a 'dog's psychology', attack, attack, attack, or try to belittle the women so that the women would be too shocked to even react! These men try to 'act good' with the same women when there are familiar people around!

When men are outperformed by a woman in a domain that they care about — intelligence — they feel threatened, assessed by diminished self-ratings of masculinity, which then lead them to act in peculiar ways.

In other words, these guys feel way inferior in the smarter woman’s presence, and so they literally go rogue!

But some nice and well brought-up men accept that the women are more intelligent and respect them for it.

These studies actually helped ascertain real world behaviour of men.

The clinical psychologist asked me whether I found these things when I interacted with men and how I rated them.

Hmmm!

I smiled and kept quiet. And the psychologist got his answers from an unspoken me because he saw the sparkle in my eye!

And he went home to write the sob stories of these men told by silence!

Isn't this a weird world? Damned if a woman is intelligent. Damned if she is not!

So...

Don't be afraid to play dumb, even if somebody tries to ill treat you and insult you, when it serves a greater purpose - it might just make you the smartest person in the room without their knowledge! The person will get fooled by their own ignorance. And this is a full proof method to beat someone at their own game! - Krishna

And I wrote my quote.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on February 19, 2024 at 12:29pm

Q: As an Indian girl or woman, what would be the one piece of advice you'd want to give to an Indian boy/man?

Krishna:

Each person is different and their world view is different. Their circumstances are different.

My advice or anybody’s advice need not be useful because of this.

Moreover, giving advice diminishes the responsibility of the other. Even if they want you to decide on their behalf, they are effectively letting you take responsibility for their reasoning and their outcomes, which is not good at all!

Each person has his or her own equations to depend on to make decisions. If I give advice based on mine, it might not work for others. Your x need not be not my x, your y need not be my y and therefore, your x^{2}+y^{2}=z^{2} need not be my .x^{2}+y^{2}=z^{2} .

let me calculate my Z Square

using my formula ax+by+xy=Z Square

And you calculate it using your formula.

Mine won’t work for you most of the time. Why waste our time on this?

You use your own brain, why do you want to rent mine, buddy?!

And this is my …… ! :)

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