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 to clarify — the categories aren’t “men” and “women”, it’s “open” and “women”.
Your point about not tolerating misogyny is spot-on, but I don’t think women–only competition is much more controversial than things like women-only business networking, women-only gyms etc: a chance to do something you enjoy without having to put up with the general fuckery of men.
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@skipchris @stavvers Yeah, mostly IIUC tournaments don't have different categories for different genders.
