For me a big part of growing up and getting older was looking back on my childhood through adult eyes and, in hindsight, seeing there was a lot of shit going on back then I wasn't aware of as a kid A lot of people seem to do the exact oppositehttps://twitter.com/polerin/status/1385268797653733381 …
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Made it seem like racism wasn't much of a thing, group of white kids with one Black friend is normal (much like the idealized diverse friend groups they made up in the actual '80s)
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The Queen's Gambit, which is ostensibly *about* sexism and a "woman proving herself in a man's world", *wildly* soft-pedaling the overt, explicit sexism of the chess world in the 1960s
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Dealing with men subtly condescending to her or underestimating her Not grandmasters standing up going "I won't play against a woman, it's an insult, it's like playing against a trained chimpanzee"
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