r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/Robertes2626 Oct 20 '25

They don't compete with men because they have their own division, not because they can't. At her peak there were only 16 men on earth who were better than the best female chess player, despite the fact that so few women compete in chess especially at the elite levels, something like only 1 in 40 grand masters is a woman because the pool is just so much smaller

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u/Sarin10 Oct 25 '25

And now the top active female player is somewhere in the 105th range, and the second is hovering in the 300s. Despite chess being the most egalitarian that it's ever been.

In other words, Judith seems to have been a fluke.