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[quote=Anonymous]I guess I shouldn't be surprised this thread grew legs.  Hilarious how there's this need to slam "intellectuals".  Yes, some people are pretentious glassbowls who need to use their $.50 SAT words to look down on others and feel better about themselves.  There are also genius physicists who have great exchanges with people in "plain english".  This is all a matter of degree, and the strength/passion of some of the responses (run, run run, dump him now, etc.) say more about the commenter than the BF.  Sure, MENSA people are a little hilarious - I work in academia (which is a hotbed of insecure smart people, Ms. Ivy League) and I know nobody in this setting who is a member of MENSA (or will admit it) - but that doesn't mean that daring to engage in "intellectual" conversation about art and philosophy, even if it's outside of your formal field - is inherently socially incompetent.

The truth is we don't know what he's like - we don't know if he's always been into these kinds of things and has had these discussions with this set of friends for years - long before the original poster showed up in his life.  If they never had other conversations, and he always had a pattern of belittling or excluding her, sure, that's bad.  [/quote]

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