Ask my husband. He's the first to admit that I'm faster than he is on a bicycle. I'm grateful that he doesn't care, and finds me more attractive because of it.

I have always had a bigger issue when I dated men that were threatened by me. I remember one guy behaving rather poorly when I beat him at a game of tennis on our first (and only) date. Maybe I should have stroked his ego and let him win.

I also was in a serious relationship when I got accepted to graduate school at an Ivy League - he broke up with me because he couldn't handle his gf being "smarter" or "better educated" than he was. The odd thing was that I was the same person before and after getting my acceptance letter, so it was his perception of me, and his fear of other people's perception of him, that changed.

I didn't want to dumb myself down or pretend to be someone other than who I am just so men would date me. Luckily that is no longer an issue. I found a man who accepts me exactly for who I am, encourages me, and doesn't feel remotely threatened by me.

Of course, in many ways I'm not typical so I have no idea if other women would feel the same.