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The defending champion said he quit as a “matter of principle” after being told to change his jeans.
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The difference is you need ice skates to skate on ice, you need baseball gloves to protect your hands, and while you don’t explicitly need running shoes you generally benefit from wearing a proper shoe for running if you are competing at a certain level. There is a function behind every one of your other examples.
What fucking pants you wear during chess is utterly meaningless unless you specifically want to create an air of superiority over people who do not dress “formally” (whatever that means). It is merely a means to exclude people who do not meet an arbitrary standard of appearance, which historically has just been a way to oppress lower socioeconomic classes and minorities. Fuck meaningless dress codes and props to him for standing his ground
There are Olympic runners who compete barefoot, you should be able to play chess without pants!
It should be mandatory because it’ll make the buttplug check easier.
You need golf pants to golf!
Should we even go into the women’s category for what is required dress apparel?
Required for what logical, and good reason?!? It’s irrational power trips, no matter how you slice it. Period. The end.
I agree…
I don’t care all that much for golf, but if someone wanted to wear jeans while golfing, I would not give two shits. Anyone who does is just gatekeeping their boring-ass networking scheme, err sport.
Damn I golf in shorts, suck it nerd
It would be cool if he did this as a protest in solidarity with marginalized groups against an unfair rule. Except that:
He never even claimed that was his motivation.
He was underperforming during the tournament.
The dress code explicitly allows for “national or traditional dress”.
Sorry, it’s still BS to complain about the material a pair of pants is made from. I could see if they had vulgarities printed all over them, or were otherwise somehow a significant distraction, but they were just a pair of pants like any other. The idea that the material used for a pair of jeans somehow makes them any less decent than any similar pair of khakis (for example) is just fucking absurd.