I like the point Julian brought up by saying that girls sometimes don't act smart. I have multiple friends who are highly intelligent but when it comes to either, guys are doing something that involves using their brains to solve the problem they act like idiots and just can't think anymore.
How does that help anyone? "Oh, poor me, I'm a girl, help me! *dramatic hand on forehead*"
However, there are a lot of girls who know how to do many nontraditionally girl oriented things. Another downside of the whole society pressure thing is that when you're a girl doing things that were traditionally done my men people assume that the girl is a lesbian.
It's this whole stupid concept of labels that our society is obsessed with. We feel the need to label everything in our lives to make it easier to deal with. "Make is simple for me to understand so I can spend my time on better things." It's why we have grown so attached to headlines and don't read the full length of the articles. And this further impairs our intelligence because we only know small facts that may not be the whole story and we piece little tidbits together and feel like we are cultured or full of world knowledge.
People need to be more concerned with learning, I honestly don't care what you learn about but it should be a goal to learn something new every day, something that you can maybe use in the future, or interests you but it should be fully understood. It is my personal goal to learn something every day, and I try to teach people something new every day too. So as I increase intelligence I also help people to increase their's! I think it's important.
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