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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Oh, wasn’t he the one who cheated pretty visibly when he was losing to a 18 year old Polgar?
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Yes, the famous "double touch" incident Man he did not cover himself in glory in his interactions with her
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dealarentina and
Man remember that whole period of time when Kasparov was a big name on Resistance Twitter for calling out Trump and stuff Before shit got weird again and it turned out he's one of those Russian guys who believes the conspiracy theory the Middle Ages never happened
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Sorry you've been wasting your time @Lollardfish
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