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Mensans v Non-Mensans
Jill, at Feministe, makes a blog post ridiculing a comment that uses Mensa membership to validate a fondness for the Cathy comic strip.

The first comment starts off with a defense of Mensa and an earnest explanation of what it means to be a genius. But soon comments erupt criticizing all standard tests, defending standardized tests and Mensa, along with accusations of ableism, lamenting the loneliness and social ostracization that is the lot of smart people and horror at Jill's very appalling anti-intellectualism.

SweetMachine nicely rounds up the kerfuffle: Way to fight the good fight, Mensa lovers! Put that genius to work!

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sorchar
2010-08-18 11:00 pm UTC (link)

When I was about 13 or so, my mom and I were eating in a dept store restaurant (RIP Thalheimers, you had the best popovers) and a MENSA group was meeting there. Keep in mind that at age 13, I a: still thought having a higher-than-average IQ meant that I was a speshul snowflake and b: was significantly thinner and more conventionally attractive than I am now, in the "getting hit on by creepy older men" way. Said meeting was full of creepy older men - mostly the stereotypical basement-dwelling type which we are so often accused of being here at FW - and I had not the good sense not to ask about joining. *headdesk* Fortunately, I was also lazy and never got around to trying. Not for lack of effort on the part of the creepy older man I had spoken to, however.

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