You are probably right. I may be worked up over nothing here. It is just that I started getting annoyed when seeing Kukshina, because as she is clearly an idiot, her positions are tainted, and one of those is on the potential of women. And then it just kept turning out that all the men were choosing the most natural women they could find, intelligence being somewhat too much -- except for Bazarov, which I suppose is a redeeming point (for both him and Turgenev's women).