Men,how do you define an intelligent women?

Guys, What is your definition of an intelligent woman?

What factors do say make the foundation of an intelligent woman? What would be the definition of an unintelligent woman? Do you seek intelligence in a woman, or just physical traits?

Some examples of both cases would be nice

In my opinion, intelligence covers a wide amount of items:

- Book smarts could be the first, foremost ... their education and qualifications.

- Street smarts / Life experience ... her background and how much she learned along the way. How much has she lived life?

- Decision making / Wisdom. Not seeking perfection, but does she make the right decisions.

- Emotional control ... does she fly off the handle for everything, or is she temperamental.

- Social aptitude. Can she interact with others or is she a wallflower. Does she have any etiquette, and does she know the right environment where grace needs to be shown versus one where to let your hair down. (To me, both environments need to be there)

- Self-awareness ... Does she know where she is as a person, and is happy and accepting of it? What does she want to do with her life?

- Self respect ... Can she respect herself, and does she know that the way to treat others is how you would like to be treated yourself?

- Communication ... how easy is it for me to communicate with her.

Really, I think there has to be a little of all of the above. If I had to give a nod to a few, I guess I would want Good decision making, street smart, and communication. But that is just me.

I guess the opposite of intelligence is ignorance. Using the above, it is lack of any and having no desire to learn it.

Here are some of mine .....

- She doesn't type in ALL CAPS and understands subject and verb agreement when constructing a complete sentence.

- She won't ask stupid subjective questions.

- She won't put hypothetical scenarios in front of me like "if me and your dog were hanging off a cliff, who would you save?" I'll tell you that you had better be my wife or I'll see you some time much later.

- She won't display her whole life and life of her significant other on facebook.

- She doesn't sit around and wait for life to happen, she makes it happen...

An intelligent woman is a woman that can clearly speak her mind and carry on an intelligent conversation and not just what was on the "King of Queens" last night. She should be able to take thoughts and seemingly ambiguous concepts (ie. Who is God) and work out either an answer or at least have something more to add than just "I don't know"?

The opposite is the kind of woman who lets herself live life with no direction (kind of like being on a boat with no rotter) and does not seem to be able to carry on or participate in an intelligent conversation oh, and MOST of all... a woman who keeps spelling it "alot" and not "a lot" and thinks that's right.

Even though, this question is specifically for men, I would like to take the liberty to answer as well.

An intelligent woman is someone who carries Mace in her purse, keeps a bat behind the door, and a hammer under the pillow. She can carry on an intelligent conversation while observing strange people about her and you wouldn't even notice her doing it.

The opposite of intelligent is if she brings her mother along for the ride, forgot to shave her back before heading out of the shower, and was clueless as to making a distinction between herself and the apes---she sticks her face into the plate and just gobbles the food !!!

I picked this from another forum:

When she goes to put on her socks, she doesn't get confused about which foot, or which end of the sock.

Given a choice of hot coffee in a paper cup or cold beer in a glass, she will decide based on whether she is thirsty, tired, or stalling for time.

Her friends turn to her for advice because they like her jokes.

What I consider the opposite of intelligent is, "decorative yet tedious".

A intelligent woman is one that has an opinion and can defend it logically not just because someone told them so. This also applies to men.

As someone previously stated there are many different types of intelligence. My favorite being someone who is knowledgeable that they temper with common sense. There are plenty of people with knowledge but little common sense.

blakkardaberry wrote:My favorite being someone who is knowledgeable that they temper with common sense. There are plenty of people with knowledge but little common sense.