After Jamie Loftus got into Mensa, a member of the group contacted her to warn that the group is not all “silly fun” and “happy nerds” but has a “nasty alt-right undercurrent.”
In her podcast “My Year in Mensa,” Jamie Loftus explores how the geeky group became a forum for the far-right.On a Monday evening in February, Jamie Loftus, enemy No. 1 of the high-I.Q. society American Mensa, arrived at a sports bar in the East Village. A twenty-seven-year-old comedian, Loftus is six feet tall, and wore a Harvard sweatshirt with a sketch of the Unabomber displayed under the proud lettering.
The Mensa saga is more straight-faced than Loftus’s usual comedy, much of which replicates the frenzied pace of the Internet and is disturbing and nonsensical to the point of chaos. Like the prankish Nathan Fielder or the strangely sexual Megan Amram, she does elaborately dumb things to make fairly smart points. In 2015, Loftus sold “Shrek nudes,” naked photos of her body painted green, to raise funds for Planned Parenthood.
Like her one-woman show, the podcast “My Year in Mensa” condemns élitism, though it uses more traditional reporting methods. Loftus’s first job out of college was at the Boston; she was fired when she tweeted, after a standup set, “crushing so hard at an open mic that I cum bloods,” which a local radio show referenced as “the end of journalism.” Nonetheless, she retains a reporter’s allegiance to fact. The first episode delves into the fraught history of I.Q.
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