First off - Bloom, I love you lol. Second, I feel like some of this has to do with being secure in your own masculinity. I love it when "men" think that the only way to be a man is to be big and strong and smarter than a woman. When, really, a man is someone who is comfortable in their own skin. My boyfriend has no issue with me being intelligent or motivated, but he does have some issues with just being comfortable with himself. So sometimes that manifests itself as snapping at me or having his little macho moments where he needs to feel like the big man. It's gotten better but sometimes he still feels like he has to assert his dominance and we have talked about how that's because he isn't secure in himself. Come to think of it....I'm not sure I have ever really met a guy that wasn't at least a little threatened by me.

I really don't understand women's lib having anything to do with intelligence either. If anything it would be the opposite because women now have more opportunities to become educated and to, therefore, give their children the same opportunity. I almost take that as an insult because, to me, it sounds like you're coming dangerously close to saying that women becoming educated means society becomes dumber........