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    As a big booty latino I feel both interested and offended by this.

    Also, don’t take our big booty latinas pls. We need them for <reasons>.

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    A reddit mod for a mensa sub sounds like possible the most insufferable combination imaginable

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      I went to college with a kid who introduced himself to the class as a Mensa member on day 1. it was a logics class.

      halfway through the semester I argued my point logically against him in a debate in front of the class and won. he was embarrassed as fuck and as red as a tomato. he was so pissed that he lost against me because he believed I was inferior to him.

      my tactic was to get him emotionally flustered on his stance, which he vehemently believed in, and argue logical arguments regardless of their logical context to his stance.

      for example if his stance was “all abortions are wrong.” my argument was, “if abortions are wrong and death is wrong then abortions that save life are right because abortions don’t kill people. so if abortions don’t kill people all abortions are right.” cue up a tit for tat back and forth for 15 minutes and I win the debate point for point.

      anyway, we didn’t see him for the rest of the semester and he dropped out entirely.

      I kinda feel bad a bit because it was clear he was on the spectrum and I used that to my advantage but the dude was a dick.

      point is Mensa is a dick stroking competition and you’re better off avoiding it.

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      Mensa is “the high IQ society”. Take that how you will, membership is mostly used for bragging rights and/or being pretentious.

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        damn i guess it’s secret information
        i love being left out

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          It’s an organization or club or something where the criteria for joining is having an IQ above whatever their minimum is. (Like 120 or something maybe?)

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    as someone who qualifies for mensa but like, i ain’t paying a subscription fee to be in the smart people club, that sounds really dumb (and also IQ testing is sketchy at best to begin with)

    yes, i always appreciate a big booty, on any ethnicity or gender, so latinas are indeed included

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      Haha I always thought that people running mensa are the real geniuses for basically selling self-esteem

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      Exactly! Mensa is essentially the filter for people who think they’re smart but actually aren’t.

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      IQ testing as many other things, has racist origins and is for all intents and purposes quite useless imo

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        In the process of diagnosing ADHS (dyslexia, other) disabilities, a IQ test is used to establish a baseline of what other people with a similar result can and cannot do and this is compared to what you can and cannot do.

        IQ tests do have uses.

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          Yup, just like BMI. It’s useful for things and the doctors are aware it isn’t perfect but that’s not what the general population thinks.

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          dang, i wish they did that for my adhd diagnosis, because i kept looking normal on my tests and had to go on a manhunt to find a doctor who has adhd as well, so they could just vibe check me (and i did, but before that i spent a lot of money on futile tests)

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    Ok, so there is a pattern to this, and it has nothing to do with IQ per se.

    It has everything to do with political alignment. And it’s a multi-variant association (1. booty v. boobs, and 2. race / ethnicity / religion).

    I’ll use US-centric political terminology here.

    Hear me out:

    1. Men who prefer big healthy asses tend to lean left/Democrat/liberal/progressive. Men who prefer big boobs tend to lean right/Republican/conservative/fash.

    2. Men who are willing to date outside their own race / ethnicity tend to be more progressive than those who prefer to stay within their own race / ethnicity (although progressives can happily find partners within their own ethnic group, too; whereas conservative almost always look within their own ethnicity first).

    So, an appreciation for big booty Latinas signifies a. someone who leans left (booty), and b. a progressive willing to date outside their own race (assuming he’s not also Latino).

    A progressive / Democrat / liberal / lefty can also date PAWGs, big booty Black women, etc. and be perfectly happy.

    A Republican will only date someone within their ethnicity 95%+ of the time (some exceptions exist, but it’s relatively rare), and they ALWAYS prefer big mommy milkers, caring very little, or naught at all, for booties.

    So there you go. This is 100% anecdote, but one day, I guarantee, the research and science will back me up on this, as soon as someone conducts it.

    In the meantime, think about all the straight men you know in your life, and think about their partners. You’ll begin to notice the pattern. Some exceptions, sure, but a pattern nonetheless.

    As of yet inconclusive: whether or not “horseshoe theory” applies to any of this. I’ll need more samplings from Leftist authoritarians to compare against Left-liberals, Left-libertarians, and Left-anarchists. More data needed.

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      Iq is no measurement of objective intelligence but that of shape recognition, plus supposedly some other skills that they, the companies making IQ tests, actually made up

      Tho I reckon personality is often more important than looks, but I would find it irrealistic for anyone to dislike them

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        Tho I reckon personality is often more important than looks

        For long term attraction, I agree. However, if we’re just talking about looking at for science, I don’t think personality matters much.