"The Queen’s Gambit" is another male bashing movie but this time about chess!

76 points16 commentssubmitted by -Moment_OF_Tangency- to r/MenInMedia

Here's the trailer, and right at the beginning, we hear this:

Men are gonna come along and wanna teach you things, doesn't make them any smarter.

The opening just can't get any more condescending than that! It begins with a hasty-generalization, follows up with insulting men for teaching her, and ends with the "women can do whatever she wants" trope! she has a lot of audacity for being a gender who never even penetrated the World's top 5!

Tell them what it means to be a girl.

The media likes to perpetuate the idea that being born a woman is something extraordinary. It's a reoccurring theme that is shoehorned to us by compelling men to sacrifice themselves for women and outright requiring them to go through atrocities especially crafted for them like circumcision and disposability!

among all those men

"among all those men." The tone is as if she was saying "among all those monsters." or "ugh.. men". There is a general sense of likeness & honor that shows up in every gesture towards women from men. It's not outlandish to expect women to do the same if they're taking up this soo called "male-sport". Perhaps, just like anything else, being a woman is like going to a Buffett, they pick n choose what they like and leave the rest for us 'lowly' men!

*refuses courtesy to another player

She outright refuses to shake the hands of a Russian player! At this point, if the genders were reversed, people would be calling her an incel!

If we compare this to pawn sacrifice, a movie on a real man who was an actual player, not a make-believe one like this woman! and see how the opposite gender was depicted in each one:

Unpopular Opinion: successful men pull the weight of women with honor; successful women use men as a benchmark! This is kinda dwelling onto the apex fallacy, moreover, the Galbrush Paradox, where women exclusively represent the top while men being at the bottom.

In movies and video games, men desire women, they want them to be a part of whatever they're doing, like slapping a paint job to your car, but never have I never saw a woman desire or grace men the same way, they're always shown as self-fulfilling women who need no man!