Who doesn’t remember sitting around the table getting increasingly annoyed with relatives over a game of Monopoly?

Ah, the good old days before smartphones.

In case you’ve been living in a hole for the last 100+ years, Monopoly is the game that invites you to move around the board, buying up property and making money until you have more than anyone else.

Peak capitalism.

Since it hit the shelves, the game has taken on a number of variations from ‘Monopoly Empire’ to ‘Monopoly Avengers‘.

The latest version has ruffled a couple of feathers. Toymaker Hasbro has decided to put their own spin on the gender wage gap by bringing out ‘Ms. Monopoly’.

Take it away, TIME.

The popular board game has released a new edition that swaps its traditional mascot—real estate mogul “Rich Uncle Pennybags”—for his niece, who invests in female entrepreneurs.

The rules have been rewritten in “Ms Monopoly” so that female players start out with more cash than their male counterparts, and earn more money each time they pass “go,” according to Agence France-Presse.

The game also replaces the accumulation of property with groundbreaking inventions and innovations made possible by women, including WiFi, chocolate chip cookies, bulletproof vests, and solar heating.

“Hasbro, Inc. is introducing the first-ever game in the Monopoly franchise that celebrates women trailblazers with Ms Monopoly,” a company press release published Tuesday read.

“We want to recognize and celebrate the many contributions women have made to our society and continue to make on a daily basis,” said Jen Boswinkel, Senior Director of Global Brand Strategy and Marketing.

There’s just one tiny problem. While Monopoly celebrates abstract female ‘trailblazers’, they’ve ironically forgotten a key part of the game’s history.

Here’s The Guardian:

To be an American woman in 1904 meant paying taxes without the right to vote. Margaret Sanger was 12 years shy of being arrested for forming what would become the Planned Parenthood Foundation, and popularising birth control. And it would be another 30 years before Gloria Steinem was born.

It was also the year that a woman named Lizzie Magie received a patent for her Landlord’s Game, a leftwing teaching tool that would come to be known by millions as the board game Monopoly. However, Magie reportedly received a mere $500 for her creation, no royalties, and, until recently, little credit.

Versions of her game were played for 30 years before Parker Brothers began publishing it as Monopoly and touting Charles Darrow as its Great Depression-era progenitor.

Yep, Monopoly in its original form was created by a woman for women.

Magie’s game was designed as a teaching tool to demonstrate the economic theories of Henry George, a man whose so-called “anti-monopolist” or “single tax” groups became early cradles for women’s suffrage. Magie had described marriage as “a germ” and likened it to “a disease.” “What is love? Nobody knows,” she said.

You can take that info to the bank.

The new ‘Ms. Monopoly’ has been met with mixed reviews. As I’m sure you can imagine, there are a lot of trolls out there who read the headlines, and then reacted as if someone had personally come into their house to insult their manhood.

We could look at their comments on social media, but let’s rather watch this short video on Lizzie Magie:

Never forget.

[source:time&guardian]