Womens brains not hard-wired for chess grandmaster Nigel Short
When Nigel Short, one of UK's greatest ever chess players, challenged Garry Kasparov for the world title in 1993 the pair met as bitter rivals.But it appears the British grandmaster ......
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View ArticleLeading female chess players slam Nigel Short over women no good at chess jibe
English chess grandmaster Nigel Short has landed himself in hot water and has been slammed by leading female chess players after claiming that people should gracefully accept the fact that women are...
View ArticleOf course women can play top-level chess How British Grandmaster Nigel Short...
For a top-ranked chess player with an enviable ability to think strategically, it was an uncharacteristically rash move. Nigel Short just claimed that men and women had differently wired ......
View Article23/11/2016 Judit Polgar discusses how she changed gender stereotypes playing...
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View ArticleTempest on a chess board Hungarys Polgar disputes UKs Short
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - British chess master Nigel Short has made a bad opening gambit by saying women are inferior at the game, says former Hungarian grandmaster Judit Polgar, who has ......
View ArticleCrazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is a surprisingly complex feminist musical that deserves...
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Knowing how this story ends doesn't make any of this any easier. President-elect Donald Trump had the most perfect New Year’s tweet. And by "perfect" we mean perfectly awful. Say what you will, the man...
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View Article"Amoral masculinity": a theory for understanding Trump from feminist...
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Click here for reuse options! A dark cultural shift is underway, being shaped by anonymous trolls across the country. “Don’t feed the trolls,” the saying goes, as if it were really that easy. As a...
View ArticleA Feminist's Guide to Critiquing Hillary Clinton
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In an age of lies, the truth is dangerous. When Twitter announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council” last month, every intelligent observer understood that censorship would be the result. The...
View ArticleProspects for an Alt-Left
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View ArticleOuting sexism is a growing sport – and a big step for equality
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View ArticleMake America Great Again: how progressives can reach rural America — and how...
The left must not compromise on its ideals, but it needs to get better at witnessing to the unconverted. When I go home to South Dakota to visit my family, I speak two languages. One is the language of...
View ArticleThe Left’s Abandonment of Females
Politics revolves around what is seen and what can be said about it, around who has the ability to see and the talent to speak, around the properties of spaces and the possibilities of time. – Jacques...
View ArticleThe Bravery To Be Vulnerable
An experiment in #100DaysofVulnerability Six years ago, I went through a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation course. It was easily, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Not the silence mind you....
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