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.
She tries to pull rank by calling herself a Grandmaster after he shows his credentials as a Master. Except, as he points out, shes a Woman Grandmaster, which is an entirely different rank made specifically for women, a rank which is equivalent to the sexless Master rank that the boy holds. If he had a vagina, he would have the same Woman Grandmaster title she does. He's throwing her attempt to shove her rank in his face back in her face. This is an even matchup, and there is no reason for her to act so haughty in the first place.
TL;DR Her credentials aren't actually superior, they are equal to his own.
All the credentials in the world don't mean a thing after Pe4, eh? 😸