Tanya Coons
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3,654 appearances
23 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2016
last heard Aug 2022
Tanya Coons’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes.
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That's a really good question and a big question.
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It's only been around since 1998, this term.
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It was coined by a person who wanted to describe the phenomenon of being attracted to people who are intelligent.
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And I really like what Peter was saying, that the attraction is relative.
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And we were talking about this a little bit through the week when I was doing some research.
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A lot of people tick the box on dating sites and then they kind of make comments like, if you don't have the right punctuation and spelling and grammar, then I'm sapiosexual, so you're not the person for me.
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It's
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Well, it's being elitist and it's being ableist as well, because not everybody has a chance to have a great education, but there are some whip-smart people out there.
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who have street knowledge, like you were talking, the survival skills and things like that.
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And I look at my friends who are artists and designers and spelling and grammar is not their strong point, but they look at the world in such an intelligent way and interpret it in such a great way that they absolutely get my attention with their curiosity and the way they're commenting on things.
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So I think it's open to interpretation, but we need to be careful that it isn't ableist or elitist, things like that.
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What does it feel like to me?
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It's really interesting because when I was doing this research, I was like, oh, wow.
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Okay.
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Yep.
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There was a lot of stuff that really explains a few things in my life.
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It's talking about things like it takes people who are sapiosexual a little bit longer to fall in love.
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They get to know people and they fall in love with them as they get to know them and find out more about them and their ideas and their views of the world.
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