Girls lack general knowledge?

1. It is a generalisation
2. There is evidence to support my case. Where is yours?

I read that. I don't care. Sarcasm or no sarcasm, stating claims like that merely perpetuates a mind-set. You still won't say that about race even with a sarcastic tone. These type of statements need to removed by society.

Stop writing them. Sarcasm or not.

(a generalisation of course)

After talking to many people over the last few months, it has become very apparent that girls have almost zero general knowledge. They can tell you what is going on in their course or the X factor, but ask them where Germany is or what WW2 was about and they have no idea. I was reminded of this when a girl on TSR who was 20 had no idea what 9/11 was all about, even though it will be one of the most important historical events during her life.
What excuse do you have for this ignorance when you live in an age of instant communication and access to huge amounts of data all for free?

Yet for some reason guys tend to be better with general knowledge, from geography, politics, and history, for some reason we know far more, yet if you ask a person why they know this they can not explain why. I put it down to simply being more inquisitive.

Do other people find this to be the same with girls they meet, or guys?
Do you girls with general knowledge find these girls do not help with fighting stereotypes such as the stupid blonde etc?

EDIT: Courtesy of (ij), here is some actual proof!
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-65414116.html

I couldn't tell you what WW2 was about but i could tell you where Germany is as i did Geography not History at GCSE.. perhaps the girls your talking about did neither

tbh, I think most young adults / teenagers nowadays have absolutely zero "general knowledge", and I'm talking about both GIRLS and BOYS.

I read the newspaper every single morning & I think I'm quite knowledgeable about history, geography, politics, etc. and it really annoys me how there's no one in real life I can discuss these issues with because they never know what I'm talking about :/

kind of depressing, actually.

I may have missed this somewhere along the thread. What is this evidence that you have?

Oh grow some balls! And good luck finding a girlfriend. Freak!

Your a retard.
But your point is valid.

I know of two girls, one being my girlfriend (all respect to her, if she reads this. Love you sweety ) who are superb students, literally straight A.
But on more than one occasion I have been gob-smacked by their lack of general knowledge, especially important historical events which have changed the world!

Ask the best male students in my sixth form who Lenin, or Mao Zedong were and what they did and they will know. Ask any of the 'mid level male students', such as my self and they will tell you. But girls just seem to have no idea!

The other girl said 'whos Margaret thatcher' not long ago.....

Another thing I've noticed, girls tend to learn less, remember more.
Yes they do superbly in exams! But ask them a question on what was in the exam a year on and they will not know the answer.
I think thats a pretty bad sign of our education system, when people can 'remember' to pass an exam, and not learn.

I'm betting majority of girls on this site are far more intelligent than you. Honestly, you sound extremely ignorant, sexist and completely thick. Oh well done, you know about WW2 and 9/11, so does my 8 year old cousin.

Grow up and stop making pathetic threads, just because the girls you choose to speak to are air heads doesn't mean the rest of us are.

I put it in the first post, so you can check that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, since my German isn't very good, but isn't that just a general breakdown of the university and subject rankings? At least if this http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-65414116.html was the link that you meant to provide? I was thinking something more along the lines of a peer reviewed paper, preferably in English.

Well to be honest intelligence is hard to measure, but when girls are doing subjects such as medicine and sciences, as well as going to top 10 uni's, it is hard to not call them intelligent.
However when they say such retarded things such as ' What is a Vietnam?", I wonder if they are intelligent, or they just have a good short term memory for their chosen subject.

Wtf did you do in Geography? As far as I remember we did no work on where countries are found. I call bull ****.

And allot of people didn't study history, but they know very well what happened in ww2.


Its ignorance.

The article discusses the results of a simple 180 question test given to 600,000 students with the questions comprising of general knowledge based questions eg. Artists, geography etc.
If you are using Google Chrome it will give you a rough translation of the page.

Oh great, now you know what I have/haven't said. Get over your righteous indignation kid.

Using Kid in a dispute. Pretty much says it all. Well played, well played...

Ignoring the actual point (which is about this incredible ability of yours to know if I have/have not made any comments about race). Well played, well played...
If it posts like a kid, and acts like a kid....

Im not very good a maths but i know 1 doesnt have a square root