Smart Guys/Gals - People who try way too hard to look smart

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No thread on "smart" guys/gals would be complete without sapiosexuals. For those who don't know what "sapiosexual" means, it's a made-up sexuality to describe someone who is "attracted to someone's mind over their body". Similar to "demisexuals" they take a trait 99.9% of the population experiences (in this case finding intelligence to be a desirable trait in a potential partner) and use it to show how unique and special they are.

Some choice articles/caps showcasing how absolutely insufferable these people are:
For Mr. Okeke-Diagne, being sapiosexual means intellectual conversation is a key part of dating and sex. While some couples might exchange racy photos or texts, he once sent a woman he was seeing a multipage erotic story he had written that included references to the Julian calendar, the decimal system and global climate change. Writing the story was such a turn-on for him that he tried to find similar erotica online — with little success.
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Darren Stalder, an engineer in Seattle, appears to have coined the term “sapiosexual” in 1998 to describe his own sexuality. “I don’t care too much about the plumbing,” he wrote in a post on the social network LiveJournal in 2002. “I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay.”
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If you're more interested in someone's bookshelf than their hot bod or bulging bank account, you might be a sapiosexual. Although critics call sapiosexuals snobs and suggest that smarts have always been a major player in human attraction, this uber-trendy "sexual orientation" is really just another way to identify yourself as one who privileges intelligence above all else in a potential partner. Identity politics reign supreme, so it's fitting that we constantly conceive new categories to label and define our niche sensibilities and predilections, however ridiculous or annoying or unnecessary they may seem.

As a recovering sapiosexual, I have experienced the benefits and drawbacks from limiting my dating pool to only those who know the difference between Barthes, Baudrillard, and de Beauvoir. There was a time that a mispronounced word, misspelling, or blank stare about canonical works of literature, philosophy, or art would wither all signs of attraction on the spot. My sex life was brimming with cunning linguists who bought me books instead of flowers and who truly gave new meaning to the phrase "giving head." While sapiosexuals might limit their romantic or erotic possibilities by limiting their definition of what intelligence means, the pretentious heart just wants what it wants. So if you're looking to please a brain teaser, here are six ways to turn a sapiosexual on.

1. Impress them with your spot-on pronunciation of commonly mispronounced words
Sometimes, it's the little things to a sapiosexual, like knowing that it's "nuclear" and not "nucular," "espresso" and not "expresso" or "et cetera" not "ex cetera." Even the smallest linguistic clues will set a sapiosexual off (or turn them on), so your verbiage needs to be on point. Just remember if you're having dessert: there have never and will never be two "r's" in sherbet.

2. Seduce them with existentialist sexts
Have your sapiosexual trembling (without the fear) when you lay some Kierkegaard quotes on them. Write: "Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see" for something a little more romantic, or keep it casual by sending off a sexy Sartre sext: "Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal." BOOM.

3. Gift them a selection of Anais Nin's Delta Of Venus in a 50 Shades dust jacket
Many a sapiosexual enjoys laughing at the "plebs" and their unrefined tastes, so why not share a chuckle over the worst in erotic pop lit? Dress up Anais Nin's renowned publication of erotic short stories Delta of Venus in a 50 Shades of Grey dust jacket to really hammer the point home. The juxtaposition of these two publications is sure to create humorous disjuncture between your form of sensual erudition and the de rigueur titillation of the masses.

4. Email them a Schrodinger's Cat meme
What's better than a cat meme? A Schrodinger's Cat meme! Even if you don't personally understand quantum mechanics, any sapiosexual worth his or her salt is sure to love this twist on our favorite Internet past time. Add a quote about wanting your reality to collapse into their reality, and you're sure to get their theoretical juices flowing.

5. Forget the gym, do a "Mensa Workout" together
Don't waste time on cardio or bicep curls, strengthen and test your knowledge with a Mensa Workout. Some sapiosexuals will enjoy a team challenge, while others will be totally hot and bothered by comparing scores at the end. Winner gets bragging rights (and the crushing realization that they possess the superior intellect). Good luck!

6. Use "body language" to let them know how limiting you think written language truly is
Written language can be a vehicle for great minds, and yet, anyone with a basic understanding of linguistics or post-structuralist theory knows just how very limited it is. When all else fails, if you can't express your feelings through words, forgo the verbal foreplay and hit the sheets. Just make sure you invite your sapiosexual to "transcend the symbolic order and experience a REAL night of pleasure" or something Lacanian-sounding like that.
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(Yes I know that last one is a troll)
 
diana said:
What is most interesting is our societies obsession with IQ when there are multiple types of intelligence.
In the psych field, we identify 9: spatial, naturalistic, musical, logical-mathematical, existential, interpersonal, intrapersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, and linguistic. You can even take a quiz to see which you are highest in.

Despite all of these intelligences, psychologists actually consider emotional intelligence (a combination of inter/intrapersonal) to be one of the most important and difficult to fully master, not IQ, or mathematical intelligence.
On top of that, we truly only use IQ as a means to determine if you are developing correctly as you grow up. How much you can word vomit at me has no practical use in our society and I will still deem you an idiot in my paperwork.

The ultimate kicker is that the higher one intelligence is, the lower the others are based on the allocation of neurons, so all these twits bragging about their "high IQ," if they even have one, are most likely severely lacking in other, more important areas of intelligence.
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I always bust these people out that it's unlikely they took a real iq test unless someone suspected they're retarded
 
XKCD can sometimes be a "smart guy" from what I hear. Most of the libtard liberal online scientists (ASAPscience, Minute Physics) tend to also fall in this category.
 
I'm unimpressed with big words. I'm vastly impressed by the exact right word. For example, one of my favorite fantasy authors is often parodied as using gratuitously long words, but he's generally pretty succinct. When he writes of "a morion with a plume," I know exactly what he means and why he's choosing that word.

Obscurity is not profundity. Not every mud puddle is a mile deep.
 
@Meowthkip Posted this in another thread. This applies here. I would have used the inbuilt quote system, but the thread it was posted in was locked.

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones that I use."

~ Ernest Hemingway

As for content for this thread.




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Also this thread feels like prime for Banksy art, or heck wannabe starving artists in general.
 
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Loxiozzz said:
What's wrong with Banksy? I thought people liked his art
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He’s a knockoff of this other guy Blek le Rat. I say “knockoff” because despite their styles being extremely similar, Banksy has denied the comparisons rather than admit he was influenced by Blek. Not to mention the pointless slapfight (paint fight?) he started with another graffiti artist
 
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"Superimposing their own cares upon another..."

Yeah, that's called empathy, and not having it doesn't make you edgy, smart, or cool. It means you have a mental disorder.
 
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