Another Angry WomanAug 17, 2023
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.
Show threadElfbiterAug 17, 2023
@stavvers Years ago in the Olympic games skeet shooting did not have gender-specific categories. Then Chinese female won. In the next contest women and men had to compete in different categories. So _woman could not beat men_ again
Show threadArtemis

@elfbiter
This is pretty much the history for *all* this stuff. Women start competing with the men at something, and suddenly they have to be relegated to their own special category.

Men DO NOT want to contemplate losing to a woman.

@stavvers

Aug 17, 2023 at 12:49pmWeb
Show threadBujoldAug 17, 2023
@artemis @elfbiter @stavvers See also Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition, which split into gendered competitions in 2011 after the dudes kept getting their asses kicked by a tiny Korean woman