Anastasia Karlovich is pretty.
I hope it isn't illegal to say that she's ugly. Not wishing to cause offence or hurt but really ... I wouldn't have gone out with her anyway.
Lel rudolf... she has red hair and red rose and red cheek!
Does rudolf has a red nose and cheeks? Don't know
Sometimes creepiness is only in the eye of the beholder.
Creepiness is determined externally, never by the perpetrator. Whom do you think should be the arbiter of whether women find something creepy?
I'm not sure who sets the rules about what qualifies as "creepy", but it does seem very subjective. IMO it doesn't seem surprising nor unnatural (nor unethical nor creepy) that the teenage boys that dominate this site are interested in discussing the physical attractiveness of the opposite gender. Even if those women also happen to be chess heroes. It's normal (as in typical) and healthy for human nature to take its course in this way. This thread is pretty mild. But I wonder if the hetero-normative aspect might be triggering anyone?
So it's "normal" for teenage male primates to have access to photos of women worldwide, and pick and choose which ones to share over a global digital network? This is something humanity as a species has evolved towards?
Your assumption at the end pretty much nails down the notion that you see things from a purely male perspective, because *of course* no normal red-blooded male could see things any other way...ergo, anyone that does not think this thread is fine must be different somehow.
Do you make the same arguments about beauty pageants? Hot-or-Not websites? Child beauty pageants? Doctors and policewomen doing calendars for charity dressed in bikinis? Do you agree with orange guys that rate every women they see and feel entitled to grab whatever? Where's your line?
Mine is that all of those things above need to go.
There's a distinction between turning to your friend and pointing out "the girl next door is cute, don't you think?" vs. then taking a photo and doing that, vs. then taking multiple photos and doing that with everyone you know, vs. then taking other people's photos that you don't even know and posting them to a popular international website and asking tens of thousands of other people to also go and look at the girl you don't even know from halfway across the globe and assess her physical attributes. The gulf between the first and the last stage is large.
Most males and many females as well go for the "well, it's fairly harmless, boys will be boys" outlook...acknowledging that it's a 'little bit' wrong, but so what? They were raised that way, but that's not really an excuse for a mature adult.
You call this thread pretty mild...it's not mild, though, it's just very commonplace. You know, like misogyny worldwide. It's a discussion, but not a healthy one, nor has this kind of thing ever been healthy...it's just been allowed. There's a difference.
The irony is that those males who don't like my posts on the thread over the years think *I* am making the thread feel creepy...guess what? That's your conscience knocking.
No, honestly, it's because you're creepy.
No, honestly, it's because you're creepy.
This would carry more weight if it wasn't coming from you. Honestly.
Well, you're the one it applies to but you can hardly claim that I'm the only one who thinks it after what you wrote there. You're noted for it. I'm noted for being honest, I suppose, by some. Among other things.
<<The irony is that those males who don't like my posts on the thread over the years think *I* am making the thread feel creepy...guess what? That's your conscience knocking.>>
I mean, really. That's called projection.
Sometimes creepiness is only in the eye of the beholder.
Creepiness is determined externally, never by the perpetrator. Whom do you think should be the arbiter of whether women find something creepy?
Not you and not anyone who thinks that all women or all people think alike, or thinks that they can put thoughts in other people's minds or speak for the thoughts that others are supposed to think. Be careful of disempowering those you think you're protecting.
Hey eye looks like it got ahem... dunked in water lel!
Now she just need the bowl on her head!
Bullet! She collects firing shots...
...I am high rocked but I may recall that
Mr.Pierre made me try chess after... he twit about chess and MMA
<<The irony is that those males who don't like my posts on the thread over the years think *I* am making the thread feel creepy...guess what? That's your conscience knocking.>>
I mean, really. That's called projection.
You sure do like to borrow my arguments...can't you come up with your own stuff?
What is is your explanation for someone that posts 3 times in a row about the same post/poster? Because mine is that you keep reaching for another "oh yeah?", but none of them are satisfying enough...
I don't know of a single forum where there isn't a thread on attractive participants. To the unhappy or woke readers, why not start a thread for the hunks?
I don't know of a single forum where there isn't a thread on attractive participants. To the unhappy or woke readers, why not start a thread for the hunks?
Because it's wrong no matter who it is done to. That's kind of the point. Just because a person is attractive to you doesn't give you a right to salivate over them publicly and invite everyone else to do so as well.
As in most cases, you can figure out what the ethical implications are if you take any internet scenario and put yourself or someone in your family in the same situation, but face to face with a group of people doing that same type of behavior. For those that try to exploit their attractiveness and become celebrities by posting their own photos, fine...go to town...it's still wrong because it results in the environment we see here for everyone around them...but at least they are knowingly making that trade-off for themselves. For the average person just going to a chess tournament? Not cool.
You are foaming at the mouth over nothing. No one takes you seriously. Get well soon.
Anyway, people, the correct answers are Alexandra Botez and Maria Florencia Fernandez.
I think WGM Tatev Abrahamyan is the prettiest chess player, and you can learn a lot from her series of lectures.
The lady has a microphone on the side of her mouth...
What's with the microphone?
You are foaming at the mouth over nothing. No one takes you seriously. Get well soon.
Anyway, people, the correct answers are Alexandra Botez and Maria Florencia Fernandez.
- Not foaming at the mouth. Lots of people have tried this tactic, because it's so basic...but if you go back and dig around, you will not be able to quote anything "foam worthy". Good luck trying.
- Who are you again? You don't take me seriously, apparently, but you don't represent...anyone.
It's just ranking some chess playing females based on looks...
I am pretty troubled that I can't find anything I want though... the cancellation and internet scouring is not so upon me; note I am no going to indulge in Cartel Jalisco de genracion pleasures albeit...
It hit me that some people may not have the creative dexterity when it comes to even agreed things...