Big Hips Equal Intelligence

That’s right. I was feeling under the weather today, and the fact that’s I’ve been so neglectful of my physical needs, I decided to do a google search on good exercises for hips and thighs (since that is where I store most of my weight). I was scrolling along when a headline caught my attention. I clicked on it, and got this article. It turns out, a study conducted by researchers from the universities of Pittsburgh, and California resulted in the findings that women with a larger hip to waist ratio stores more fatty omega 3 acids, resulting in better brain growth, and is found to be more intelligent than her counterparts.
Obviously this does not mean that bigger hipped women are always smarter than any other. We all know that it is not just one factor that determines intelligence, but a number of factors. Needless to say, it did help me feel a little bit better though. At least whe I am sitting, and it feels like the big bang is performing an oncor in my chair, I can go back to that article.
Reading the comments to one of these articles though (I will try to search for the link since I lost it), I began to think about something else. We all know that big hips have been correlated with fertility, and of course that is what some of the comments alluded to (more cushin’ for the pushin’ etc.) One of the comments mentioned something along the lines of “It is not her brains I am after.” Another comment mentioned something like “Damn, no luck in finding a ditz with big hips, huh.”
Well, it brought me back to those days where women and men usually separated on occasions where the family gathered. With women being in the kitchen, mostly talking about the the things they shopped for, or the things their husbands got for them, the latest gossip around the neighborhood, or just plain cooking recipes. Never anything beyond this. The men were all confined in their plume of cigar smoke talking about “serious matters.” This is something that has bothered me for the longest time. I have heard on a number of occasions while arguing with another guy about this, that studies have shown on average that men are smarter than women. In doing my own research, I have found, interestingly enough, that men deviate more than women on the scale of intelligence, meaning a higher rate of both very low intelligence, and genius scores.
I find the former hard to believe though. I believe that this supposed lack of intelligence (even the results of these studies) indicate both a cultural, and psychological phenomenon.
I believe that most women are raised to learn that men do not like being shown up, and that it is not “dainty” or attractive for a woman to be smarter than a man. Therefore she applies this knowledge when seeking a man. It has also been evident throughout time, and there has always been a generally wide held belief that women do not/and should not need to be smarter anyway.
In my own personal observations, even in my current relationship, I have observed that most men look for women who are “easy to get along with”, translation” obedient, “simple minded”, translation: always happy, and just lives to bake platters of cookies for everyone. Put shortly, these men didn’t want a girl that would challenge his knowledge and embarrass, or more importantly, bruise his ego. So I am curious, how many men have you come across like this in your lives? How did you handle it? What are your thoughts on women having to dumb themselves down, or be met with extra hostility due to their knowledge and expressing their opinions? And do you believe that it would be more scientifically accurate to say that both men and women share the same capacity for intelligence?