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>>>>Which is why I said "slightly more." I have a lot more respect for the ones who refused to endorse him at all. I was truly disappointed last week when Huntsman endorsed; while I disagree with him on pretty much everything, I thought he was better than that.
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>>>Slight thread drift, but not completely outside the original topic - do you have an opinion of the U.S. women's chess champion (Paikidze-Barnes) and the world championship in Iran (and the possible boycott)?
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>>It's pretty clear that I'd set a record low score while flunking Political Correctness.
>>I can't fathom why the notion of a Women's Chess team (clearly separating by gender) is not sexist, while other things that discriminate by gender are.
>>Why wasn't "A league of their own" the most blatantly sexist movie ever made?
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>If a group of people are systematically excluded from things, why is it wrong for them to create those things for themselves? Many of our finest hospitals were created because Jewish doctors weren't allowed practice in existing hospitals. Same thing for colleges--Jews, blacks, others were excluded, so they created their own. While I can argue as to whether we should have fraternities and sororities at all, there are some that were created by Jews and by blacks because they were excluded from existing sororities.
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>I don't know anything about the history of world chess competition and whether women have traditionally been excluded. (I can't remember ever hearing about a female chess champion.)
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>For sure, major league baseball excluded women, so having a league for women who wanted to play seems like a reasonable remedy. The movie wasn't sexist because it told a (fictionalized) true story. Incidentally, one of this season's new TV shows (Fox's Pitch) is the story of a woman becoming the first in MLB. I think so far, they're doing a pretty good job of showing the kind of issues such a woman would face.
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>Do you think the people who created the Negro Baseball Leagues were racist? I don't. The people who kept black players out of MLB were.
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>Seems to me what you're doing is victim-blaming.
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>Tamar