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Unless you're watching "Beauty and the Geek."

Last night I tuned in after contemplating Ruby's last coupla posts on intelligence.

The beauties are supposed to be dumb, or act dumb, or something. Out here in the non-reality show world, that "something" can be painfully obvious.

I've seen it and experienced it: the IQ drop of women when they are attracted to a guy, a.k.a., "the dumb act."

In the arsenal of weapons women use to pick up someone, this must be the most ridiculous.

Brains are sexy, and that's not the only thing that can be sexy, as we all know. But as far as earning respect -which a lot of people seem unnaturally obsessed with anyway- acting dumb is a sure way to start from behind. The act may just be a sure sign of general stupidity overall.

The dumb act is even less respect-worthy than going home with someone on the first night (not that going back to someone's place is automatically disrespectable - something we've discussed at length before).

And fellas, we're not insulated from taking on the dumb act. It happens about every other time we see someone who's hot to trot.

A girl I knew in a few years back became the biggest moron whenever her crush came around. And then to hear her say that she planned to be a doctor made it worse. For the record, I think she is wrapping up her pre-med program, and hopefully dropped the dumb act. Another notoriously dumb-acting friend of mine just graduated UNC law school, and finally has some sense.

So, have you seen/played/witnessed/fallen victim to the dumb act? Did it work?