I was once interested in time travel. My dedication was boundless and my morals were questionable. I only got smart enough to know I'm too dumb to make it work.

Clearly you have never met stupid people. Lucky you.

Lots of upvotes, but that's simply not true. It is true that people can be gifted in one area and not in others, but those people can excel in those areas more than someone even more passionately interested could ever hope to.

I knew a guy named Joe Rohde. You can look him up, he ended up being a head of imagineering at Disney. When I knew him, he was a high school art teacher, and then just starting at Disney. His aptitude for art was off the charts, and his mom said that was true when he was four and able to draw 3D renderings when his peers couldn't do stick figures. Sure, he practiced and developed skills, but his ability to hold a 3D image in his mind, tweak and rotate it, and then put it on paper, is something innate. He was absolute crap at math.

I spent 40 years at a company that mostly made rocket engines for NASA and the DoD, working with literal rocket scientists. I met all sorts of very smart people. Some were the stereotypical scientist that were geniuses in a particular area but had no skills outside of it, but others were just simply brilliant at anything they turned their mind to. Many of them defied the stereotype and also has great social skills.

It might be nice to think that anyone can be truly great at anything they put their mind to, but I've seen too many people who are truly great at things to believe it. Some people are just wired differently.

Edit: and none of the above mentions gender because gender doesn't factor into it.

You've never met someone who's just plain dumb? I have bad news.

May be a gross oversimplification, simply because, ignoring everything else around professional chess, the world championship is technically open for all genders...

But considering how FIDE makes women gain ELO by taking it from other women in mixed tournaments, its 2023 ruling on transgender players, and how former World Champion Garry Kasparov reacted to losing to a women, it might as well be the truth.

I especially like playing chess with clam people.

Thank goodness online adaptations allow people to play without having to consider the identity of their opponent (because I don't mind who I play against).

Yes, almost every sport where men are actually at an advantage allows women to compete in the "men's" leagues as well. Only when they actually start winning against the men do the rules start excluding them

Wait until you learn about "generations".

you won't believe this but I bet the guy on the right could write a Python script to solve it in 4-6 business weeks

Yeah making this into a man vs woman thing is stupid, I took the original post just as a person saying "people can have different kinds of intelligence, everything should be respected"

Also, a lot of "stupid" behavior people do is a direct result of them being stressed, scared, tired, hungry etc. The more stuff you have on your mind to begin with because the world sucks the harder it is to pay attention to what you're doing.

It also says chess enthusiast on the anime boy. Might just be a watermark.

I ship it

stupid war that serves no one.

It's standard divide and conquer, definitely serves the people in power.

Me, offscreen to the left: imaginarily smart.