so brave of the Post to publish the courageous "girls be dumb" take, wherein Babs concludes that societal factors can't explain the lack of women grandmasters because The Queen's Gambit "shows, authentically, that any kid is welcome at any chess club."https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-the-glaring-flaw-of-the-queens-gambit-that-no-one-wants-to-mention …
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And decided not to make her husband be a single parent whenever she was preparing for a tournament, that she wanted to be an active presence in her kids' childhoods and not miss it
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Which, you know, is a respectable decision and probably a better decision than the other decision It's not a bad thing that she made that decision It's just that so many dudes *did* make the other decision, left their kids essentially fatherless, and became world champion
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