Correct. Almost no high-agency high-intelligence man wants a woman who is intellectually incapable. By most measures I am far to the right on the Bell curve in intelligence and one of my few absolute dealbreakers was that the woman I ended up with would have to be within at least one SD of mine in IQ. Otherwise, what would we talk about day to day?

Because I’ve had to do it my whole life, I know that constantly explaining everything to everyone is terrible. I wouldn’t want to be with someone that I’d have to spend all my time doing that — and if I did have to clarify something, it’d take.

What Bethel writes there is just something neurotic women tell themselves about why they weren’t able to bag that 0.01% or above dude they think they deserve. That’s it.