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		derrida on Sept 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't dumb girls down As a guy, this type of thinking once again puts the value on women as 'attractiveness'. Why isn't intelligence good for its own sake?

jwingy on Sept 6, 2011 [–]

I never said intelligence wasn't good for its own sake, nor was I trying to imply a woman's worth is only in her level of attractiveness. Certainly in a ideal world we would all aspire to goals without concern for outside opinion, but alas we don't live in a vacuum.

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