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 ......
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 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 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 ArticleFEATURE: Hungarian chess champion moves into education
Innovation, it seems, runs deep in the Polgar family DNA. In the 1970s, the father Laszlo, a teacher, challenged Hungary’s communist authorities by homeschooling his children as chess prodigies. Now...
View Article23/11/2016 Judit Polgar discusses how she changed gender stereotypes playing...
(Source: UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) Date: 23 November 2016 Chess Grandmaster Judit Polgar signs on to be a Planet 50-50 Champion in support of UN...
View ArticleJudit Polgar says Hou still far from world top 10 chess players
BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese rising star Hou Yifan is still far from becoming the second female chess player to reach top 10 in the world rankings, according to legendary female chess player...
View ArticleCrazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is a surprisingly complex feminist musical that deserves...
If you aren’t watching The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, that’s probably because it’s on The CW and it’s called Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. But those who dismiss this series based on the title are seriously...
View ArticleWhy Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
The bitches, as Shannon saw it, came in three varieties. She categorized them on her personal blog, in a post titled “Beware the Female BigLaw Partner.” First was the “aggressive bitch”—a certain kind...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #2-15: Bigly Yuge Private Investigations Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #2-15: Bigly Yuge Private Investigations Edition Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Now available in single packs! So we got to talk about this Arian Foster...
View Article12 Moments of Right-Wing Horror and Absurdity in 2016
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...
View ArticleYoung, male and feminist – if only there were more of them
Schools and universities have their share of students engaging in sexist and misogynistic behaviour. But there are also those who are standing up against it – and their numbers are growing...
View Article"Amoral masculinity": a theory for understanding Trump from feminist...
"Trump is a reminder of what masculinity can be like outside of conventions." Gender is a cardinal issue in this year’s election. On one side is the first woman to have won the presidential nomination...
View ArticleThe Toxic, Bullying Troll Culture Has Made Much of the Internet Dangerous;...
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
Fair warning: This blog is not going to be angry. It will not be written in all caps. There will be no vulgarity. And it probably won't go viral. I don't care. What I do care about is the fact I've...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of #FreeStacy?
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 ArticleEveryday Sexism in a 'Post-Feminist' World
For the past two decades, “girl power” has become a popular way of describing the success of girls in American culture. Widespread reports of “alpha girls”—girls who can do it all, find popularity,...
View ArticleProspects for an Alt-Left
The day of Donald Trump’s election to the office of US President should be remembered as “the day that the liberal elite of the American coasts learned of a world outside its Facebook feed”, according...
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...
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