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Smart women are a turn on, but quite a bother

I would like to condemn quite vehemently the widely-held belief that intelligent women are difficult, unapproachable, arrogant, or, in layman's terms, 'purveyors of madharau'.

On the contrary, intelligent women are God's gift to man. Remember how bored the first man was, counting sheep and naming cows before he was blessed with a sharp woman who immediately livened things up in the suburbs of Eden? We all know about Helen of Troy, who parlayed her beauty and budding cougar status into a memorable war. These were smart women, bending the world to their will.

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