Chess Grandmaster
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She handled it well. The kid was pretty obnoxious. If the point of the video is to make women look bad, it fails.
This is wild to me. The kid is incredibly confident--because he can back it up. He knows it going in, she snarks at him, pulling rank, and he rebuffs it. He mops the floor with her, grandmaster notwithstanding.
He then, and this is the special part, tells her a (to him at least) true thing: That someday (after he has ascended even further) he hopes she'll be happy that she had the opportunity to play him. When he was young and small. Because in the future he's going to be big and famous, and he won't have the time, and she won't have the pull, for this match-up to even happen.
He doesn't defer to her womanness or her superior credentials. That's fantastic.
We all talk about what needs to happen to fix the natural relations between men and women in modernity. It's this. It's don't give her a pass when she's being bitchy, don't defer, and don't make yourself small to appease her.
When was she bitchy? When did she ask him to defer? Who asked the kid to be small? You are tilting at windmills
Her use of an unearned title, Grandmaster, was a power play. He correctly pointed out that her title is actually Woman Grandmaster, which is equal to his own title of Master.
Attempting to one-up an 11 year old with a title you don't even have is some class A bitchy behavior.
He brought up rank unsolicited. She asked how old he was, he responded he was 11 and was a master rank. She said nothing about his rank. So how should she have responded when he brings up his rank?