Smart Women Intimidate Some Men

Does this man look intimidated by this woman?

[From article]
While men say they like the idea of dating a woman who’s smarter than they are, when it comes time to meet her, they’re less keen on the brainy lady, a study that will be published in the November journal “Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin” reveals.
In the first part of the study, researchers had 105 male participants read a hypothetical scenario about a woman who, among other traits, had either outperformed the male subject or underperformed him in a math or English course; the men were then asked to imagine how desirable that person might be as a romantic partner.
In this scenario, “men formed favorable impressions and showed greater interest in women who displayed more (versus less) intelligence than themselves.” (Research out this year supports the notion that men say intelligence is very important to them in a romantic partner.)
But in the second part of the study — where the men were told they would meet a woman in person — a woman’s intelligence worked against her.
The participants took what they thought was an intelligence test, and were told that they would soon be meeting someone who had either scored better or worse than them on the test.
Faced with actually meeting a female who was smarter than they were, the men “distanced themselves more from her, tended to rate her as less attractive, and showed less desire to exchange contact information or plan a date with her,” the study revealed.
[. . .]
Plenty of men aren’t threatened by a woman’s intelligence, and this study didn’t look at what would happen if a man was in a relationship with a woman more intelligent than he was.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/16/men-feel-threatened-by-smarter-women-science-says/

Men feel threatened by smarter women, science says
By Catey Hill, Marketwatch
New York
October 16, 2015 | 4:33pm

Updated: Gentle Woman On Trial For Shooting Lawyer Boyfriend Dead; Alleging He Called Her A Hillbilly.

Posted October 27, 2012 4:33 PM ET; Last updated August 4, 2015 8:36 PM ET


Troubled: Poston's family described his relationship with Hubers,
left, as tumultuous and said that the 29-year-old was trying to end it

Don't know enough about this young lady. But my reaction is that she may have felt humiliated by this young man. Maybe he did consider her a hillbilly, and beneath him. It may be the same class difference (real or imagined) as between Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias. Many people have poor or low self esteem. The testimony in the Arias trial showed that she was devoted to Travis and wanted to marry him. He seemed to be treating her as his sex slave which she was willing to be. She just wanted to marry the guy. When  he expressed his disdain for her, she lost it and killed him. 

That is not to say she was justified in killing him. Nor was Jayna in this murder either. Just that it may explain why it happened, and that there is no method for bringing that into the trial. Classism is seldom discussed or mentioned when it comes to bias and discrimination. If these men had expressed their dislike for the women for being black or lesbians they might have been able to use that bias, hate speech, as justification for murder. "He insulted me. He called me a N-word." "He called me a hillbilly." and "He called me a cripple." do not work as easily.  

[From article]
The night that Ryan Poston was shot dead by his on-again, off-again girlfriend he was supposed to meet a former Miss Ohio 2012 beauty queen for a date, an Ohio court heard on Thursday.
Audrey Bolte, who also finished runner-up in Miss USA, told prosecutors she was looking forward to seeing Poston, 29, at a bar to play pool and drink on October 12, 2012, but he failed to arrive.
That was because Shayna Hubers had shot him six times at home - during which she allegedly 'cackled' with glee claimed a cellmate of the accused, who claims the 24-year-old confessed to her while behind bars.
[. . .]
Prosecutors allege that Hubers shot Poston because she was furious he was trying to break up with her.
Hubers, who was 21 at the time, denies murdering her lawyer boyfriend and claims she shot him in self-defense.
Her trial began on Monday and during that time, Hubers has been held at the Campbell County jail in Newport.
Her romer cellmate testified to the court that Hubers joked about the shooting and said she was going to get off all charges.
'Did she ever laugh?' Commonwealth's Attorney Michelle Snodgrass asked Cecily Miller according to Cincinnati.com.
'Oh, yes.'
'About what?'
'About shooting him in the face and giving him the nose job he always wanted,' said Miller. 'That's what bothered me – she cackled.'

 
Trial: Shayna Hubers attends her murder trail in Campbell, Ohio. Hubers is charged with murder in the shooting death of her boyfriend, Ryan Poston.

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Also on the stand was Vernon West, who lived in the condo below Poston with his wife Doris.
They testified they returned home at around 8.30pm and heard a woman crying on a balcony above.
West said that she returned inside the home at around 8.50pm and then he heard two pops that at first he thought were fireworks and then four more and then a thud.
'The first two shots, I thought might have been fireworks,' Vernon West testified according to Cincinnati.com.
'But a few seconds later, I heard four shots, and I knew that wasn't fireworks.'
Vernon West also said that they did not hear a physical fight or arguing before the shots.
Hubers, who was 21 at the time, claimed she was acting in self-defense because the young attorney was shoving and hitting her, but during an interview with police she was quoted as telling a detective she gave Posten 'the nose job he wanted.'
On the first day of testimony Tuesday, jurors were shown a video of the defendant's interview with police following the slaying.
'He was screaming at me at the top of his lungs after he had thrown me around the room,' the woman told a detective sitting across from her, reported Cincinnati.com.
'I shot him enough times to kill him,' she said, 'so that he wouldn't suffer... He was laying there, twitching and making noises, and I shot him in the head.
'I was watching him die. it was painful to watch him die and to know that I had done that,' reported WCPO.
Hubers then described her late boyfriend of one year as 'vain' about his looks.
'I shot him right here,' she said in the video as she pointed to her nose. 'I gave him his nose job he wanted.'

[. . .]
'He said, 'You're just a hillbilly from Kentucky.' And I am. I guess the hillbilly came out in me, and I took up for myself,' she told police in the recording played in court.
[. . .]
Hubers graduated from Lexington's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in 2009.
In the fall of 2010, she made the Dean's List at the University of Kentucky as a sophomore psychology major. Zevely said she is close with her parents, and her mother spent the day with her in Northern Kentucky prior to the shooting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3044086/Woman-cackled-shot-lawyer-boyfriend-trying-dump-beauty-queen-voted-Miss-Ohio-2012-court-hears.html

Woman 'cackled' as she shot dead her lawyer boyfriend as he tried to dump her for Miss Ohio 2012 beauty queen
Ohio court hears that Ryan Poston was supposed to meet Audrey Bolte the night he was shot dead
Shayna Hubers, shot dead lawyer Ryan Poston in 2012
She claims it was in self-defense but the prosecution claims it was murder
Hubers, then 21, told police she shot Poston in the face and then fired again to put him out of his misery
By SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JAMES NYE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:53 EST, 17 April 2015 | UPDATED: 07:30 EST, 18 April 2015



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223787/Shayna-Hubers-Woman-shot-dead-lawyer-boyfriend-Ryan-Poston-giving-nose-job-wanted.html

'I gave him the nose job he always wanted': Woman 'shot lawyer
boyfriend twice in the head... then four more times to stop the
twitching'
Detective: Shayna Hubers 'said she gave him the nose job he wanted'
Ryan Poston, 29, was found shot dead in his Ohio condominium
Couple dated for at least a year, but Poston's family said their
relationship was rocky and he wanted to end it
Hubers told police she shot Poston in the face and then fired again to
put him out of his misery
Poston had his own law practice specializing in personal injury cases
Hubers' bond was raised to $5million after being lowered by another judge
By SNEJANA FARBEROV and NINA GOLGOWSKI
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:36 EST, 26 October 2012 | UPDATED: 16:13 EST, 26 October 2012

Gang Inmate in Baltimore Jail Got Four Guards Pregnant

White, 36, allegedly fathered five children with the four female guards, who were identified as Jennifer Owens, 31, Katera Stevenson, 24, Chania Brooks, 27, and Tiffany Linder, 27.


[From article]
Control of a Baltimore prison was effectively handed over to a group of gang member inmates who seduced and bribed the female guards.
Federal prosecutors say 13 female correctional officers, seven inmates and five others with gang ties have been charged with plotting to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband into the Baltimore jail and other corrections facilities.
[. . .]
The officers that they focused on were ones that they believed had 'low self-esteem and insecurities'.
[. . .]

The guards helped the gang leaders smuggle cell phones and drugs into the prison.
[. . .]
Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said.
'We need to be able to rely on people within law enforcement — to make sure they are on our side.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313882/Tavon-White-Murderer-fathered-FIVE-children-FOUR-guards.html

Pictured: The jailed gang leader who has fathered FIVE children with FOUR female prison guards
Federal investigators say 13 female guards were in on the scheme at Baltimore City Detention Center
Allowed members of notorious Black Guerrilla Family gang to smuggle in prescription drugs and cell phones
One gang member boasted: 'I make every final call in this jail'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 00:58 EST, 24 April 2013 | UPDATED: 14:46 EST, 24 April 2013

Marilyn Monroe, Masochist or Just Poor Self Esteem?

[From article]
"Marilyn Monroe revealed in secret notes that she felt "subhuman" even at the height of her fame -- and longed to die at least four years before her apparent suicide.
[. . .]
In a diary entry after the breakup of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio, she asks why she "always felt in a certain way that I am subhuman, why in other words, I am the worst," according to the French translation.

Getty Images

Marilyn Monroe

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/marilyn_secrets_SnlgJDnCMsSG9ffMiyns7K

Marilyn's secrets
Diary bares '50s 'torture' & death wish
By ANDY SOLTIS
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:35 AM, October 2, 2010
Posted: 1:32 AM, October 2, 2010

Obama Encourages Lawyers for Terrorists


While US taxpayers provide legal counsel to a man who tried to blow up a commercial airliner on Christmas Day 2009, persons with disabilities go without their rights. While American lawyers volunteer to represent enemy combatants residing in luxurious Guantanamo prison persons with disabilities are abused by police and denied access, and the right to be heard by local and state prosecutors and politicians. Why do alleged American lawyers and politicians promote Constitutional Rights for persons who try to kill them while ignoring persons who have done no wrong? Are American lawyers masochistic with poor self-esteem?

"A plea bargain. For a terrorist. This isn’t prosecuting a war. This is playing Law & Order. We have a President who really does believe all the world is a stage and he is a Screen Actors Guild member.

How many Americans will die because Barack Obama decided to lawyer up instead of soldier up?"

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/01/04/911-didnt-happen-the-obama-administration-tries-to-prove-george-bush-was-wrong/

9/11 Didn’t Happen: The Obama Administration Tries to Prove George Bush Was Wrong
Posted by Erick Erickson
RedState.com
Monday, January 4th at 10:42PM EST

Sandra Boss' Poor Self Esteem


Omitted from these comments and the article is pervasive Poor Self Esteem of women with brilliant minds and/or beautiful bodies. (Margery Eagan, "Con man’s wife a survivor, not scapegoat," Boston Herald, June 3, 2009) They may be capable as Boss is of high level financial analysis, but due to their poor self image they submit to corrupt abusive men or women. It is not stupidity, but lack of self awareness.

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1176434

or

http://tinyurl.com/oqloqj

Con man’s wife a survivor, not scapegoat
By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald
Wednesday, June 3, 2009