Calm down dear: the dark side of ‘emotional intelligence’ | Dean Burnett

British chess master Nigel short recently caused controversy by saying women’s brains aren’t ‘hard wired’ for chess. He also pointed out women have greater ‘emotional intelligence’. But this supposed praise reveals a great deal of cultural preconceptions and gender stereotyping, which suggests it’s not actually a compliment at all.Nigel Short, UK chess grand master, recently said that the reason there are so few women in the world of competitive chess because male brain is “hardw