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Straight dudes: regardless of what you consciously endorse, what do your gut feelings feel about dating a woman who's (clearly, unambiguously) smarter than you?

Comfortable/happy
61.3%
Neutral/unsure
19.5%
Uncomfortable/bad
6.1%
not straight dude/results
13.1%

8,153 votesFinal results

12:40 AM · Jul 16, 2022

goblin à la mode

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these results are so wholesome wth

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Konstantin is building

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and

I’d say a lot of these are virtue signaling bc everyone knows what the “right” answer is. in practice, though decently representative, I believe the numbers would be a tad lower.

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I have a sub 100 iq l have little choice.

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happily uncomfortable

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zen (6/100 essays)

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Happily married to one ^_^

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I really felt uncomfortable reading that question! Is that a thing now? Not dating or be w/ someone smarter than you!

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Tenobrus (7/100)

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there was a while when i was first dating my ex where i really thought she was much smarter than me, and i liked it. that illusion slowly melted and i was a lot less happy afterwards. so i have pretty strong empirical evidence here

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Most shocking result of this poll is the % of straight dudes

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where is "uncomfortable/happy"

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Idan ("eden") Solon ("sew-lin") (

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Love smart ladies. Yet your followers are probably disproportionately interested in smart ladies.

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