Competitive Scrabble constitutes a natural experiment for testing the feminist worldview… There are no cultural expectations that discourage females from memorising dictionaries—a typical strategy of competitive Scrabble players, often in a foreign language that the player doesn’t speak. Girls are as free as boys to lap up vocabulary. Nor are there misogynist gatekeepers to keep females out of Scrabble play; the game, usually first learned at home, is open to all. According to Hasbro, 83% of recreational Scrabble players 25 to 54 are female.
The article is behind a pay wall but I think I get the drift. I also note that Kim Rhode is female and is a six time Olympic medal winner including three golds in a male dominated sport and the feminists never talk about her. Maybe because she did it in trap shooting, another sport that men and women compete equally at. Guns are evil, after all.
Some do the dishes while others practice their onanism.
I suspect your scrabble tiles stick together and are difficult to play … yes, you forced me to the dickionary to score your word.
For the record – I consider my own vocabulary well above average, however I quickly tired of the phone game Words with Friends when it became apparent I was being repeatedly beaten by 3-letter words. The game does not reward large vocabularies. It rewards scoring strategies. Thus not interesting to me as a “word” game.
Your comment pertains to what I was thinking. Scrabble is as much a game of strategy as it is vocabulary. When your opponent is having all the luck drawing the ‘good’ tiles you have to be at your best laying down plurals and additions on their excellent words and blocking access to the deadly triple scores. Memorize the 2 letter words because they are your key to winning.
I hate it when the wife beats me at crib.
…. I picture this
https://youtu.be/Y7t4gmNYO-8
But I bet it is not that often.
My wife is the acknowledged Scrabble queen in our extended family. Like other posters, I have a larger vocabulary than her. However, she has a good vocab and the ability to instinctively know how to maximize scoring on the special
boxes. She regularly finishes 50 points ahead of me and 100 points ahead of other family members.
Not exactly the victim feminists wish she was.
She is also heartily sick of the #METOO bullshit and has developed a visceral hatred of Trudope.
I encourage some hairy feminist to come by and tell her she’s not a “real woman”
Good for her. I suspect that she might also know how give a hairy feminist a high five in the chops if necessary.
Interesting. I’d think that given women’s inherently greater vocabulary, if the gentler sex were to have an advantage at any board game it would be Scrabble.
Norm McDonald has a funny story about the time he played scrabble against Old Weird Harold the proprietor of a
B & B where he stayed in Victoria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8_KcFc6xew
Males are much more likely to obsess about academic topics. Any topic I’m interested in, I gorge on. I am obsessed with patterns and make lists. From a kid I was interested in history, particularly military history as a hobby. I took as many history courses as I could, I spent many years in the reserves, and I know virtually every unit of the Canadian Army that fought in both world wars and their involvement in battles. I have done some editing on Wikpedia. Nothing drives me crazier than some illiterate fool who destroys my posts with ignorance. I have done tens of thousands of entries in online databases and my own lists involving Canadian soldiers. And that’s one hobby.
This is why we need asteroids, famines, wars and perhaps a zoo breakout. Anything than to have useless people ponder these inanities.
I want to make the word ZYMURGY on the first go.
Feminists are perfectly aware of situations like this. It doesn’t do anything to convince them that there is a lack of sexism. Since men and women are the same as far as they are concerned it convinces them that there is a source of sexism that is not instantiated in particular misogynists and gatekeepers that can be pointed to.
That is what they mean by “institutionalized sexism.” Not an institution that discriminates against women as most people would understand it, but an “invisible hand” that is “inherent to the system,” which, since “the system” cannot be biology must be a social construct. Ha! Gotcha.
But then these are the same people who say that we should not teach that the speed of light is a constant while others are relative, because that gives light “speed privilege.”
” . . . typically male obsessions: strategy, math, a passion for competition, and a drive to memorise facts.”
Colonialism!
I once dumped QUIZZING in the top right hand corner and hit two triple word scores.
My brother kindly put an N just above the middle triple word score. So I made sure I put my real Z on the double letter score and the blank (used as a Z) below it. Total score: 10 + 1 +1 +20 +0 +1+1+2 = 36 which was tripled to 108 and then tripled to 324. Then added 50 for using all seven tiles and voila at total play of 374.
Haven’t come close since.
Did you win the game?
yep
it was one of the few I won
Once when playing against my wife, I was lucky enough to play all my tiles twice in the same game. There has been no scrabble played at our house since that event. We switched to crib with better results. We each win about half the time.
when I needed a blank tile, I surreptitiously flipped one over and didnt fess up until the end of the game when the blanks didnt add up.
only once as a joke mind you. sadly the ‘flipping tiles’ gambit is WAAAAAAAYYYYY too common
when dealing with feminism and feminism-like topics.
aka ‘minefield’. gee, how many points is that word?
speaking of competitive fact based games, I NEVER lost a round of Trivial Pursuit. not once. I would even challenge the ‘official’ ‘correct’ answer by whipping out an encyclopedia. when I was barred from doing THAT I stopped playing.
hi kenji. truly sorry to hear about recent developments with your dear son. I will mention him in Monday’s prayer meeting.
I D O N T C A R E
D
I
O
T