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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A book written by a man and a series written and directed by a man that downplays the effectiveness of sexism as a barrier and how awful men are when their spaces are threatened is not exactly unexpected. And it doesn't even need to be malice. They honestly may not *know*.
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Maybe the timeline diverged earlier and Menchik was a somewhat better player than she was in reality, and so the idea that a woman could be a world-class player was easier for people to take in.
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