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[wispfox]

aelisdeliria lent me a book, called _Welcome to the Ark_, by Stephanie S. Tolan. It's... captivating. I _must_ own this book.

The reason I'm writing right now is a quote which I had to share...

"How smart do you feel?"
"Comparatively?"
"No. Just you yourself. How smart do you really feel?"
"Truth?"
"Of course, truth!"
"I've spent my whole life trying not to know how scary it was to have people call me the smartest kid in the world. Because I don't know anything."


*shiver* Yeah. Not to that degree, but yeah.

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[wispfox.livejournal.com]

being annoyed when people were surprised when i do/say something smart.

Wow. Yeah, I can see that. I'm more tired of the awe/fear reactions, myself. I don't think I tend to interact much with people who are surprised...

this gets a bit ranty.... :/

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

yes, it's a combination of race sh*t, and "you're pretty" sh*t, and "you're creative" sh*t.

it's as though if you hit the genetic potluck, that means you must be a bimbo. because "pretty girls are dumb" -- additionally, "pretty girls have blonde hair" which meant that in my school i wasn't considered pretty. but i was considered black, and everyone knew that the only reason i got into Yale and Harvard was because i'm black. right? except for the black kids who didn't get into Yale, but that just meant that i got in because i was lighter than them, hnot because i was smart or talented or anything like that. (that was sarcastic) and creative people aren't *smart*, science and math geeks are *smart*. artists are not *smart*. they are *artsy* and supposed to hate science.

i'm not good at math though.

even though i really, really, really like quantum mechanics. i am terrible at newtownian physics though. which is weird, to say the least.

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[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*blinks* Wow. I strongly dislike the people who have said or implied any or all of that to you!

I think, actually, it's not that 'pretty girls are dumb', but that a fair number of guys who are drooling over pretty girls want them to not be smarter than them. And they are the vocal and societally accepted guys.

The rest, I have no direct experience with, so don't really know. (and, I _wish_ I were more artsy than I have been thus far... my childhood was more strongly oriented toward scholatic achievement than aritstic. There was _some_, but...)