Sugar and Spice

Ann Althouse has been writing alot about the recent study and Maureen Dowd column concerning the fact that men supposedly prefer to marry dumb women.

Well, in my humble opinion these are dumb men.

My wife has a doctorate in Immunology and she's just as intelligent or more so then I am; although, I'll argue about who's the better guitar player. (For those who don't know already I somehow got out of Cornell alive with a Post-hole Digger degree in Plasma Physics from the Electrical Engineering School.)

I also know many dual Ph.D. couples b/c by the time you're in graduate school the only people that can relate to your stunted social development are other graduate students. I often find that the men Ph.D.'s tend to be physicists or Engineers and the women tend to be biologists or organic chemists. Makes me wonder why guys like working with machines and women like working with the stuff of life....

With me my stepdad always wanted me to be an MD but I get queasy around anyone's blood but my own. As a matter of fact I've gotten dizzy at a Red Cross Blood donation in the past. My wife likes horses, and did her Ph.D. in Reproductive Immunology and worked with horses and donkeys and mules.

It's an interesting question and perhaps goes back to "sugar and spice and everything nice." Although after the birth of my son, and watching the OB/GYN and my wife discuss and examine my wife's placenta, "sugar and spice" of life ain't very pretty.