Intellectual Women

There are aspects of reality you don’t really consider until they suddenly appear before you. A recent surprising example is Chess Bitch: Women In The Ultimate Intellectual Sport:

The issue of attractiveness dogs many of the top female players, who are objectified by their male peers and taken less seriously. Some of those women, it must be said, cultivate their sexuality—like Alexandra Kosteniuk, a Thora Birch look-alike who sells seductive photos of herself in a bikini on her website, and Maria Manakova, who poses nude in magazines and plays publicly in leather miniskirts.

Buying happiness at a chess club