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That is absolute twaddle. To any native English speaker "damsel in distress" connotes a woman who is helpless, lacking in agency, incapable of advocating on her own behalf, waiting for a man to ride to her rescue. It is itself a misogynist trope, because those women exist only in fairy tales. Chris...

I had a problem with you deeming that a lady who claims to have suffered sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape "is no damsel in distress". You either don't believe her, or you don't consider those episodes substantially distressing!? The "Sabrina Support-O-Meter" is a grotesquely inappropriate...

"...That she is stressed and deserving of sympathy is obvious, but she is no damsel in distress. I don't think it says anything about one's position on the Sabrina Support-O-Meter to hope for some clarity on what would make her feel supported..." Without wishing to further raise the temperature on ...

Very well put.

He'll think it's "surreal".

A lovely overview of Mike Conroy's book by James Pratt, with mentions of this forum's Nick Ivell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV_BfQdLEOo&t=4s

I used to set chess-themed cryptic crosswords for the Open University Postal Chess Club's magazine back in the '90's. A bit niche :wink: I don't have any surviving copies, but it was fun. I've just returned to solving cryptics after a break of many years. If you allow surnames of living titled playe...

I'm rather surprised there's been no talk of the Candidates being played on-line. There were telegraph matches yonks ago, and Fischer competed in a Cuban tournament by telex. Surely the competitors could be policed at their terminals with minimum contact with other people. The appropriate software i...

The "Entrants" section of the Blackpool Congress website may well be out of date. I emailed one of the organisers some days ago to flag up my withdrawal, and I still appear on the list of entrants. I've actually withdrawn due to other health reasons (I also withdrew from Doncaster, and I'm going to ...