@RandamuMaki @redjives @quixoticgeek

???

So there are no men-only chess matches but there are women-only matches.

That is really odd that women are not included. Truly bizarre.

The games that boys and girls play are quite different. Not necessarily because they choose to of course. The very same thing happens in the younger ages and the girls teams are just not taken seriously.

When I was reading in college about the 6x acl tear rate, it was thought to be either this or something to do with angle due to the pelvis.

No practice hitting a little target with a thrown thing vs years of such.

My dad's advice to me is still to immediately go out and find some new woman to get involved with. Or have at the porn. Thinks I should have hit the kid back when he started hitting me. Won't shut the fuck up about it. Never even gave a fuck about the kid when I was being a "dad".

He never taught me shit about wooing.

The problem is when a board is swarmed because one of the players is attractive in some way, instead of because of the game on the board.

Having female arbiters, female players, and female staff creates a safe environment.

Reference to the 1992 Olympics, which is what I'm assuming is the event @KatS is thinking about:

Shooting at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Zhang Shan - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Zhang Shan won the open Skeet competition. It was the last time the Olympics had an open Skeet competition, and the 1996 Olympics only had a mens Skeet competition, not one for women.

When I lose, I don’t blame my opponent; I am the sole orchestrator of my defeats.

I’ve never seen a men-only tournament. I’ve seen many women-only. Also plenty of rating brackets, to give players a chance to not get eliminated instantly.

Many tournaments include open competition, however. As an amateur fencer, I've been beaten by women plenty of times, without disgrace--including, repeatedly, by an 11-year old girl who was about 18 inches shorter (but very fast).

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st

In the typical national level chess tournament the best woman will go for the money that first place gives in the women's only league, while 2nd and 3rd play in the open tournament because they won't win either way and they get better games against men. Below that there are no women who are good enough to qualify for the open and so they have to play in the women's only one. Of course every tournament is different and so things will vary a little, but something like the above is typical.

The few women who choose to study chess prove that women are perfectly capable of playing at high levels. However most choose not to, which is just fine except when someone tries to abuse the fact that women rarely choose play chess to try to make some sexism point.

"Wait, it's all misogyny?"

"It always was."

This should tell anyone all they need to know about the supposed feminism of TERFs, in case their willingness to ally with other right wing reactionaries hadn't already given the game away.