Girls and Chess: A Struggle

Tychoo · 14-05-2017 4:02pm #1

I thinks it backwards we are going.:mad:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/29/girl-12-forced-to-pull-out-of-chess-championship-because-her-dress-was-too-seductive-6606114/[/URL]

cdeb · 14-05-2017 4:26pm

In fairness, I don't think "we" is necessarily correct here. The incident is in Malaysia - different cultural factors at play for a start (though Malaysia certainly isn't as conservative as some countries). "We" kind of implies it's an Irish incident, or something reasonably local.

Still sounds like a completely daft thing to have happened.

Tychoo · 14-05-2017 4:52pm

let me correct that for you "we" as in the "planet we"

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 14-05-2017 4:56pm

Tychoo wrote: »

I thinks it backwards we are going.:mad:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/29/girl-12-forced-to-pull-out-of-chess-championship-because-her-dress-was-too-seductive-6606114/[/URL]

What's this "we" business?

cdeb · 14-05-2017 4:57pm

That's fair enough - but let's be honest, in a lot of countries in the world, particularly Muslim ones (like Malaysia, though as I say, it's definitely one of the more progressive Muslim countries), the struggle for girls is about a lot more than just chess.

As I say, daft thing to happen, but I don't think it's really fair to suggest this is a chess problem.

Girls and Chess: A Struggle

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