Carlson has no respect

[cameosis]

To be fair, she has a rating of around 2600. That's about 1000 Elo more than I have, so ofc she has my respect as chess player. However, in absolute terms, she is ranked 291st in the world as per FIDE Online. No player around that rank can expect to be recognised in a public event. The only reason why she is somewhat special is because she is a woman - but equal treatment pretty much demands to treat her like any other very good, but irrelevant player in that range, right?

all players are irrelevant if we’re honest, all they do is play chess, there’s not much societal contribution other than an entertaining and - depending on the circumstances - educational pastime. sven øen is no exception, thus the personality cult around him strikes me as highly unsound, .