Well educated and intelligent aren't synonyms. Education only has value if the person receiving it understands its value and takes full advantage of it. A gender studies degree, even from an Ivy League school, is more indicative of the fact that one's parents had the money to blow on letting their kid get a gender studies degree than of anything else. On the opposite end, my father went to a low end community college after doing terribly in high school, but because of his passion for turning his life around he went on to become one of the most successful people I've met.