https://news.yahoo.com/queen-gambit-true-story-explained-210200430.html
In a fun twist, as McClain noted, since Fischer was known to be dismissive of female chess players and once claimed they were less intelligent than men, "Making Beth recall a female Fischer may have been a sneaky, and wonderful, way to send up that assessment."
So they "owned" Bobby Fischer and his wholly accurate assessment of female chess players by grafting his skill and personality onto a fictional female chess prodigy who is more accomplished than any real female player in history? That'll show him, eh?
This is just so painfully "Netflix".
Doesn’t that just make women look even worse? People are gonna try to look this story up and realize it’s completely made up and they’re gonna ask why there are no female chess champions like that.
They are not going to look it up.
Chess is an interesting sport, is a mental sport and yet we have female only championship and as far as I know there are no men only.
It makes sense to have female only for things like physical sports or at least one were you need sharp reflexes but a poorly cerebral game?
This does indeed look very bad for the female supremacists so I'm assuming that the movie tries to create the illusion that girls are better then guys at chess and maybe encourage some girls to play chess.
You run into things like that all over the place in competitive games. Pinball, for instance. The IFPA has women-only leagues, but no men-only league. The defacto overall league is topped by men - you have to go down to the 104th spot before you find a woman in the list. That woman is the top-ranked female player, and she's a full 600+ points lower in the ranking than the top man. If women were playing on the same level, you'd see one much higher in the rankings.
You can argue that paintball may have a hand-eye coordination factor but in a mental/ strategy game that looks kind of bad.
Yeah, the thing about pinball is the hand/eye part of it is just muscle memory and practice once you get down the standard moves for ball handling. Everything beyond that hinges on mental & strategy of trying to hit specific targets and order of the rules of the table you're standing in front of. It's not rocket science once you know the table you're playing, but even then you've got the guys putting up double to triple the scores the women do. I'm sure they'd have some excuse like they don't get to practice as much as the men, or the men intimidate them when they're at the machine - never mind the fact that dudes have to put up with the same shit when they're at a tourney, and guys have to find their own time to practice, too.
It doesn't make any sense for anything women only. This only makes them not have to face reality. If women are allowed equal rights, then they deserve equal responsibility. No more funding women's sports with men's, no more holding their hand and letting them have their own league. If they want to compete, make them compete equally or quit the equality bullshit.
I'd say let them have their own sports. If anything, it cuts down the amount of fat women in our society and we already have way too many of those.
Now taking it seriously as a "sport" that's not worth continuing to do. Continue to have the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match in every sport to remind them of their place in the most brutal fashion regularly.
At least the trans would shut up about being in sports. But I doubt that will happen in this life time. My prediction for the near future is making rules in team sports to have a female quota. I predict suddenly trans athletes will become in high demand.
Men as a collective in western society will only continue self suicide for the benefit of women. We just need a tipping point or powderkeg to start forcing women to compete equally to be considered equal.
Nah. I think the question: "Who is the best woman" at something is valid. Where things go south is when delusional cunts pretend that the accomplishments of these women are even remotely complarable to the accomplishments of the men. Worse when the same delusional cunts demand that their accomplishments have to be recognized (i.e. paid) the same as mens accomplishments despite only a fraction of people willing to pay to see them compete.
I think there's ways to create interest in women's sports. Doing so is hard work though and why would you want to work hard when you can leech of the work of men instead (see almost every "professional" women's league out there)
You reckon people look stuff up do you?
Don't worry they will have a fake wiki knocked up by then if they do.
No one looked up Netflix's fake Central Park Five series, why should they look up this?