Curious as to what the justification is for having gendered chess categories in the first place, because literally the only thing I can think of ultimately amounts to they believe women are innately stupid.
@stavvers
Pretty sure I remember reading a while back that gendered sports categories were made entirely because men couldn't handle being beaten by women (I think the first one was marksmanship). It's an impossible situation, either we're excluded from the """real""" league so they can feel superior or if men are intentionally excluded they get pissy about it like it's their right to have access to women's spaces.
@GrayGooGirl @stavvers I'm sure that was someone's motivation at one point or another, but certainly isn't the main thing going on. In any case, not having women's sports would mean inequity in things like college scholarships. There's real money involved. (I guess one solution to that would be to not have athletic scholarships, but what about pro sports?)
"excluded from the """real""" league" Women's sports is very much real. (And a lot of "men's" sports orgs don't actually ban women (MLB is an exception).)
I think most men understand that there are plenty of women who can absolutely crush them at any given sport. :)
