Why don’t men like educated women? Someone asked just that question on Quora. Some of the answers? “They’re intimidating”, “you can’t fuck a degree”. Not exactly an academic study, but those are the kind of things women have been hearing from men since we’ve been able to get an education. Which was not that long ago.
The truth is, educated women are not as easily manipulated. Look at how many men like younger women (and by that I mean little girls). There is a reason for that. The more educated you are, the more you think for yourself and the more you learn about the world around you. And in doing so, you might even start learning about misogyny and patriarchy, and thus recognize certain harmful patterns and behaviors in men. Then you become less likely to be manipulated, groomed, and to be a potential victim.
That leaves a lot of men out. Woody Allen once said that in a relationship, there should be inequity. In this case, the woman should be the secondary partner to the man. He is not the only one. John Casablancas, founder of the modeling agency Elite, claimed to only want relationships with girls under 18. Same with French singer Claude François, who explained that passed that age, men needed to beware because women started to think for themselves. (Mona Chollet, 2017)
It does sound true. How many times has a man used “feminist” as an insult towards me because I dared to say something about how women are treated, about how women are harmed in our society. I suppose that’s thinking too much for myself.
And now that women are earning more degrees than men, what will that mean for men? Because women tend to seek a partner with the same level of education, men will fall even more behind. Women no longer need men to attend to their basic survival needs, and so are becoming pickier in choosing their partners. So is it that men don’t like educated women, or that women have more choices and therefore only choose the best partners for themselves?
It might be time for men to start working on themselves and start looking at women as equal partners rather than submissive accessories to their lives. Women are changing their whole psyche now that they are liberating themselves from their oppression after millennia of restricted access to society. Yes, we are more educated. Time for men to catch up with us.
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