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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Replying to @Justin_Ling @arthur_affect
Saying that sexism doesn't exist in chess because sexism doesn't exist in the fictious chess show is... breathtakingly asinine.
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Replying to @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling
Judit Polgar said that the two most unrealistic things about the show were 1) Beth's substance abuse problems would've made it absolutely impossible to compete at that level no matter what her natural talent, and 2) the sexism was WAY more common and blatant in real life
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When Polgar was coming up irl the sexist men did not self-censor, at all -- the show is actually back-dating a 21st century idea of "political correctness" into the 20th The gatekeeping wasn't implicit or covert, it was overt and it was meanhttps://www.ibtimes.com/queens-gambit-deja-vu-hungary-chess-champ-polgar-3099903 …
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Then-world champion Garry Kasparov called Polgar a "circus puppet" and said women were better off having families than trying careers they couldn't psychologically handle like competitive chess (Kasparov ended up apologizing, and is one of the consultants on the show)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Justin_Ling
Oh, I believe Polgar implicitly. I'm a woman who works in the video game industry and plays in heavy metal bands. The thing I found most unrealistic vis-a-vis my own experience in male-dominated fields was that dudes she dated and then beat were supportive of her success.
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Replying to @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling
Lol oh yeah Polgar absolutely didn't date other chess players Her life isn't much like Beth's at all, although Beth is kind of obviously a tribute to her (she was famous for her red hair in her youth and Anya Taylor-Joy dyed her hair red for the part)
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The sad thing about the show is that one way in which it's unrealistic is it's just really hard to believe Beth succeeding that consistently without growing up with a strong support system Judit Polgar had a dad determined to prove girls could do anything boys could
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And even then, like The sad and familiar story of why Polgar retired and stopped rising up through the ranks as the #8 player in the world is that she'd gotten married, had kids, and decided she had to put her family first
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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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