2. and when i say smartest i don't mean to condescend, I mean "are easily a full SD past me" also of interest: their dating lives
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3. they date p much exclusively phds, its amazing actual quote: "yeah college professors are like line cooks for me. what else ya got?"
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4. things that are striking: their comfort with trad femininity interacting with their professional life; the power they derive from it
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5. if generalizable, this has some implications for feminist theory and metafeminist theory that are left as an exercise to the reader. /fin
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IMO people are the biggest outliers on skills tend to end up the most individualist and attached to personal rather than group identities.
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That . . . is an extremely good point
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The more you are above the group average, the more you have to lose from being modeled with it; the more you are below, the more you gain...
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This alone is enough to predict that less competent people would be more invested in group identity, regardless of which group in particular
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"Do not judge my performance, judge the group average!" vs "do not judge the group average, judge my performance!"
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Think the interesting thing here is these women feeling *more* comfortable w their group membership/identity. "Yup I'm feminine, also bril"
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This could be related to another thing I was thinking of; being so obviously brilliant outweighing others' gendered assumptions/perceptions
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Someone who is seen as intelligent first and woman second could have less cause for insecurity related to people's gendered assumptions
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