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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • In the election that Huckabee-Sanders won, she was up against Chris Jones, an MIT graduate with a masters in nuclear engineering and a PhD in urban planning and an ordained minister. My fellow Arkansans voted for the woman who didn’t show up to the debate and spent most of her time out of the state hanging around Fox News. I don’t think my state deserves Foghorn Leghorn if we could get him.







  • I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what’s going on here. There is an open league and a league restricted to women only.

    Without a women’s league, there are fewer women seen playing, which reinforces the perception that it’s not a sport for women, which creates this feedback loop leading to a smaller pool of women playing chess, thus fewer grand masters who are women. I see value in creating more space for women in chess to create more opportunities for following generations.

    I don’t like excluding trans women. I can imagine an argument that we’re not ready for this until we get to a place where we don’t think to distinguish between trans and cis women. A women’s league in 2023 that a young cis girl is watching that had 3 cis women and 97 trans women, still may look to that young girl like a league for trans women, and not a league for all women that they can see themselves competing in. Personally, I enjoyed watching a marginalized gender eSports competition, and I don’t think the presence of trans women invalidated the impact it could have inspiring young cis girls to pick up gaming.