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Back to the Future Day; Bad Girls of Comedy in Pleasantville; Study: Men Intimidated By Smart Women – Today, Oct. 21 in the 914

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1.)?It’s?Back to the Future Day!?Today,?Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 is the day Marty traveled into the future in?Back to the Future II.?Here’s the video clip courtesy Park Circus on YouTube:

2.)?Lucy’s Laughs and?NoMa Comedy presents?Chris Vac’s Bad Girls of Comedy?Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at ?Lucy’s Lounge, 446 Bedford Rd. in Pleasantville. There is a?$10 cover charge for the show, which features Kerryn Feehan, Jessica Stern, Chrissie Mayr, Lisa Whiteside, Trina Alper and Chablis Quarterman.

3.)?A?recent study offers a little more?insight into why?some of us Westchester women are?single.?A new study says it’s because?we’re super smart. But we already knew that!

The New York Times?reports that at study to be published in?the November issue of?Personality and Social Psychology,?confirms that?men feel threatened by dating intelligent women.

Tell us something we don’t already know 🙂

Men initially find a smart woman to be attractive and desirable,?however?when the men 105 male participants in the study were asked about actually dating the women they distanced themselves more from her, tended to rate her as less attractive, and showed less desire to exchange contact information or plan a date with her.

The study found that?they opted to date?the women of lesser intelligence due their, feelings of diminished masculinity accounted for mens decreased attraction toward women who outperformed them.

You can read the full story?here?in the New York Times.

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