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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      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

      2 replies 12 retweets 124 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      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 …

      3 replies 13 retweets 83 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      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)

      4 replies 4 retweets 82 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      Hell here's UK grandmaster Nigel Short saying the same thing in the distant era of 2015https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046374/Women-aren-t-smart-play-chess-game-requires-logical-thinking-says-British-grandmaster.html …

      3 replies 2 retweets 48 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      Re: the story making Beth an addict It's blatantly unrealistic, and because it's unrealistic I think it is worth analyzing to a degree why it's there and whether it's gendered That to make her genius interesting Beth has to be really clearly badly damaged in some way

      1 reply 6 retweets 44 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      I mean it's certainly not that there haven't been plenty of chess greats who were all kinds of messed up in their personal lives But the drinking and pill popping absolutely doesn't make sense (it's like portraying an NBA champion who gets drunk and hung over before a game)

      6 replies 3 retweets 36 likes
    7. Dr. BruceMcF / And the Men who spurred us on /‏ @BruceMcF 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      I don't recall the drinking before the game except the one game where she clearly blew it. But the thing about the tranquilizers holding self doubt at bay so she can focus on the game does seem a bit far fetched. ...

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @BruceMcF @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      What's weird is that they could easily have made them uppers and it would've fit period stereotypes and everything There were all these jokes from the '50s and '60s about how dexedrine ("dexys", "purple hearts", "French blues") were the wildly overprescribed "housewife's helper"

      2 replies 1 retweet 10 likes
    9. Dr. BruceMcF / And the Men who spurred us on /‏ @BruceMcF 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      But they wouldn't have given speed to orphan kids ... giving orphans tranquilizers like they were vitamin supplements is certainly realistic for the 50s ...

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Dr. BruceMcF / And the Men who spurred us on /‏ @BruceMcF 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @BruceMcF @arthur_affect and

      ... but the tranquilizers holding down her left brain self criticism so her right brain thinking can run untrammeled is awfully poppy psychology. At least it is held up as an impediment to being world champion level, but I reckon that'd also apply to KY state championship level.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @BruceMcF @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

      Yeah that's literally the bullshit cliché of what someone says to try to convince you they drive better when they're drunk or stoned

      11:40 AM - 11 Dec 2020
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        1. Dr. BruceMcF / And the Men who spurred us on /‏ @BruceMcF 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @GameResTrez @Justin_Ling

          At least Kasparov & Pandolfini picked games that were a bit like she had lived several years in a chess openings book while not being allowed to play ... though Benny Watts pointed out missing the best move in her state champ game, so maybe that was the tranqs.

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