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If chess was invented today you'd have a subreddit full of losers whining about how en passant is unbalanced and the king should have the queen's moveset. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I (36F) always wear bright red lipstick whenever I decide I'm not going to let my husband (52M) win. AITA?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this intended to be a complete nonsequitur cause I do not understand...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the history of "girls can't play chess", there was a time when Anna Rudolf was accused of cheating with lip balm somehow.

So this was meant as an example of someone trolling the chess-loser subreddit. The fictional, suspiciously age-gappy husband can't comprehend that he isn't winning for himself, and the super-obvious lipstick is to bait him into ridiculous accusations of cheating. Would such behaviour be assholish? The subreddit decides.

And since I'm explaining the joke anyway, there's also an underlying criticism of the way women have to manage the egos of men—particularly the kind inhabiting OP's fictional subreddit—by letting them win, etc. So, no, absolutely not a non sequitur.