A self-described “Catholic accelerationist” writer on X just earned 2 million views with his hot take on finding a traditional complementarian wife. Justin Murphy writes:
“Men, just marry a hot lower-IQ girl from a rural church, one who is simple and practical and faithful.
You don’t need or want impressive opinions about foreign films. “A little retarded but I love ’em” —words spoken by many happy husbands (and many happy wives no less)”
Like Mr. Murphy here, I, too, want bachelors to find hot wives. Trying to find a hot, faithful wife is already difficult in modern America. If you want to make it even harder, try deliberately eliminating smart women from your prospects. Imagine the struggle of young men attending competitive colleges. Attractive ladies everywhere — and all too smart to date.
Diminishing the value of intelligence in wives in even the most complementarian arrangement is just really bad advice. It’s not intelligence that’s the real threat some men perceive (men who probably follow Murphy’s account), it’s the bossiness, godlessness, arrogance, and strong focus on career over home and family life that are often found in smart, educated women. Especially given the country’s limited dating pool of hot chicks, bachelors would do well to parse intelligence from other characteristics they don’t like, because intelligence in a wife is advantageous, particularly to the man who has the brains and ambition to really make a splash in the world.
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