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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also worth noting that "intelligence" seems to have always been heavily skewed towards male interests.  See today, in that romance readers consume BY FAR more books than any other group, and are basically the most prolific readers on the planet, consuming a number of books per week that actually forced companies like Scribd to change their policies- and yet they are considered kind of unintelligent and silly.  Notice that that same dismissal of a group of readers doesn't seem to extent to other pulpy or formulaic genres of books like mysteries or sci-fi.  In fact, sci-fi readers are often assumed to be highly intelligent, and grouped in the "nerd" or "geek" class.

Apparently it's totally dumb to watch romantic comedies, but a superhero film like "The Dark Knight Rises" is high art.

Additionally, beauty has traditionally been associated with femaleness, with the feminine gender.

As such, I think the cultural disdain for all things "beautiful" can basically be traced back to misogyny.  The fervor and appreciation for things "intelligent" can be traced back to a misplaced idea that "intelligence" is predicated on interest in and ability to master traditionally male domains, and a converse rejection of traditionally female domains [/quote]

I love this [/quote]

This is a load of crappola.[/quote]

Agree.  Big pile o turds.[/quote]

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