Another Angry WomanCurious 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.
Rachel Greenham@stavvers from what else i've seen in the last day or so, it seems that [decoded] the chess tournament scene was so toxically misogynistic that trying to compete in it as a woman was practically impossible, and making a whole separate tournament for women was, to them, easier and preferable to fixing it.
@StrangeNoises yeah, it seems to me like simply banning misogynists from competing would have been the easier fix there
@stavvers i'm sure there was also a flavour of "but they might win!" in there too, an outcome not to be risked. But that's just a subset of the other thing really.