I am mortified! After seeing the cover of the January 2005 Mensa Bulletin, I find that I must protest the subject matter. As a life member of Mensa and 24 years of continuous membership, I feel betrayed by our leadership in controlling the content of the magazine.

In the past, I have held my concerns inward and have bitten the bullet, but the January cover was the last straw. On the cover is a picture of Mensan A. J. Jacobs. On the third finger of his left hand there appears to be a wedding band. As a single Mensan, I must voice my objection in not giving equal time to an unmarried person. Not all Mensans are married and to show preferential treatment to this sector of our group indicates discrimination.

As I further perused the January Bulletin, I was appalled at the titillating picture of our AMC Chair on page 2. I am not a prude, but the suggestion of cleavage shown on such an honored officer goes beyond good taste and the editors should have airbrushed the photo to a more refined graphic. I would hope any further pictures of our Chair would be artfully abridged.

I am overjoyed to know that our Chair has not resorted to becoming a "mutilated trollop" or sport "nose rings for controlling pigs." Also, Mensan "bikers and drug abusers" with "completely ugly tattoos" should have their memberships questioned and perhaps given the name of a reputable plastic surgeon, perhaps with a D.M.D. and M.D. I rejoice in knowing our Chair is not a "misguided woman who has deliberately disfigured her face and body" or is a "slut" or a "freak."

The photo of the November/December Bulletin cover on page 5 was, in all honesty and truthfulness, neat, thoughtful and mind provoking, as was the original cover for that issue. More unusual Mensans should be highlighted in the future.

The lack of photographs in the balance of the January issue suggests that perhaps the editor has determined that some of them could be controversial. Kudos to the editor. However, upon close examination of the picture on page 31, and enhancing it through computer technology, it seems one of the flying birds is in the process of a normal body function of excretion and the artist in charge of photo retouching has detected this body function and edited the photo. Well done!

As long as I am commenting on the content of our magazine, I have held back in the past my reaction to the September 2004 Bulletin. On the cover, which reflected the diversity of language, Mensan Jason Cannon should have done a bit more research on his graphic. The Hebrew letters, when read left to right (as opposed to right to left which is the normal way to read Hebrew), spell out "fly paper" which has no bearing on the subject of language. Also, cleverly hidden in the hand depictions of hearing-impaired signing language is an obscene street gesture. I should have objected at that time. Also, being well acquainted with Braille, the Braille symbols, when converted to Morse code, spell a phrase that I cannot repeat in this article. Shame.

To sum up, I am concerned about the perceptual maturation concepts and professional guidance process that have manifested in the Bulletin. But the environmental creative articulation has best been the instructional relationship philosophy therein. The homogeneous motorial activity combined with developmental culture resources have amplified the sequential orientation curriculum and given an individualized, cognitive approach to the content. With accelerated exceptional adjustments and socialized motivation interface, the Bulletin can reach its interdependent involvement objectives.

By utilizing synchronized, organizational mobility and compatible motivation utilization, incremental effectiveness capacity and optimized integration options will ensue. The Bulletin will reach systematized reciprocal capability and total integrated projection and realize, at long last, quality digital contingency and responsive monitored transition.

I trust that my comments and suggestions will be carefully analyzed by the AMC and editors of the Bulletin and a more stringent editorial policy be adopted.

    — Gill Krebs

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