So a comedian who publicly announced that she was “going to ruin the Los Angeles Mensa chapter” joined Mensa.
As soon as she got into Mensa, she search out the worst possible things she could find.
What she found became the fodder for her podcasts and articles in Paste magazine.

Cat Zhang of the New Yorker took the…

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In high school I was intent on joining Mensa, until my SAT scores were high enough to gain me admittance, at which point I immediately lost interest. That was more a function of my teenaged self-loathing (not wanting to join any club that would have me as a member) than it was a commentary on Mensa, but I’m still…

The surprise is that it would be anyone’s experience, l’il cookie. Perhaps, though, not a surprise that it’s the experience of someone who went specifically to mine controversy...er...sunshine.

My uncle was in MENSA. I've been to MENSA get togethers. The experience documented here bears no resemblance to my experience. In fact, I always had the sense that the people I met were left leaning and tended to be more considered in their views on anything. 

I’m in Mensa, because my mom went digging and submitted the IQ test from when I was tested into the gifted program in elementary school. I’ve never been to any meetup so I can’t refute any of her reporting, but it wouldn’t exactly surprise me. From a few of the member submitted things in the magazine it’s definitely…

I’m a Mensa member, and in almost any large group you will have people that behave badly like this. She is a comedian. I don’t think she is a bad person, but would you like to talk about the behavior of some comedians so we can demonize that entire group? We’ll be here all day!

To be fair they were Mensa threats so it was probably wishing death upon her D&D or MMORPG character.

This reminds me of when I “infiltrated” Blockbuster Video by filling out the application and being accepted.

It was a huge operation that took months of planning.

did you ever ask her “hey, if you’re such a genius, why are you constantly arguing with middle schoolers?”

My step-dad grew up in a blue collar fishing town. If it didn’t have a picture of a baseball player, a big fish or elk on the cover, he wasn’t reading it. lol He was just a very smart guy.

Benjamin Franklin’s method of making enemies like him was to ask the person for a favor. He asked someone who despised him if he could borrow a valuable book from him and all of a sudden things changed for the better. Wouldn’t work for me though; I’m too petty. I like the the method explained in this article much…

When I was a teenager, my step-dad taught me the lesson on how to get along well with people I don’t like. He told me, “son, to be more likeable, talk to them about their interests and try to understand what they like. If they want to talk about alligators, talk about alligators! (that really was his example, he said…