Emotionally mature enough to interact with an intelligent woman? or you find them intimidating?

I like the challenge (and, for many men, intelligent women are a challenge). I especially like it when she bests me. Not because I want to be beaten intellectually, but because I realise life would be so much more interesting with a woman like that. As a man, I have little idea of what it's actually like to exist as a woman in this world. I'd enjoy learning from her. Hopefully, she'd enjoy learning something from me.