Most Dating Books/Teachers Aren't Exceptional

[Human Mint]

For me it was really helpful listening to truthful views of the masculine-femenine dynamics.

You can absolutely respect women while still having a truthful view.

[LordFall]

Also a lot of these debates happen because we define our terms inadequately.

What does shallow mean? It can mean anti-intellectual, it can be does not appreciate the multiple fascets of life, it can mean focusing on status markers as opposed to other personality traits, etc.

I like to talk mostly about money and sex because I find it grounds life into actionable goals and you can use many deeper fields to explore those two. A lot of intellectuals get losts into endless debates that don't really serve their life like the perfect crowd is the looksmaxxing crowd that doesn't actually learn how to talk to women and create beautiful experiences with them but will be able to tell us about the cephalic index optimization and give tips on optimizing your craniofacial morphology. Or college students that learn a lot about communist theory but have never tried starting a business or a non-profit and actually helping the people in their community. 

I think nerds is an intellectual that foucses on theory as opposed to being a practicioner, it also has to do with social trends as usually nerdy topics are not mainstream unlike makeup for example. Gaming is starting to become mainstream and so the average joe is a gamer but not nerdy until he gets deeper into like theorycrafting or like dungeons and dragon.