Gender and Film 1

Today, I watched the movie House Bunny. It's about a girl who is a play boy bunny who is tricked into leaving the play boy mansion for her "old" age, 27 years old, by another bunny. She finds herself as a house mother for a not so popular soroity. She teaches the girls how to become more popular with the boys in order to gain more pledges for their soroity. One thing she says is, "Boys don't like smart girls." Along with alot of other "advice" she gives that boys want from girls. This particular statement bothered me. Why don't boys like "smart girls." What is this statement teaching girls? Just because a girl or woman is intelligent doesn't mean that you should be ashamed of it. You get called a nerd and a book worm for learning. Is it because men are intimidated by a woman smarter than them? I don't believe the movie should have portrayed the girls the way they were. They changed their true selves to gain popularity with boys making young women believe that that's the way to get to a boys heart.