How have they spun him being in shape to be negative!
It's all insecurities, B.
If you've ever dated a woman that considered herself intelligent, but you crushed her buildings with your superior intellect, you know what I'm saying.
They'll love the fact that they have an intelligent bf initially, but as you show more and more that you're smarter, they'll develop a grudge and start to view your intellect in negative ways. At one time you were a critical thinker, now you're just a complainer who overanalyzes everything. At one point you were a wealth of knowledge, now you're just a know-it-all. At one point she saw your intellect as something to build on, now she sees you as a threat to her own intellectual esteem.
A woman could take ANY positive a man brings to the table and learn to resent it and eventually use it against you.
Obviously this only applies to insecure women, not all of them, the problem is that there's so much of them like that. My "one that got away" matched me intellectually, and her lack of insecurity in that department made for the best relationship I could have asked for. I lost her due to a moment of weakness that I'll always regret (but thankfully I learned and grew in the aftermath), but I can safely say she never tried to spin any of my positive qualities against me.
She was one of a kind and pure class, no joke. That's the kind of woman you devote time and ulimately your life to as a grown a$$ man.