Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted.
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Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.
Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.
Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.
@quixoticgeek That's historically been the case for many sports that are segregated. Marathons? Not segregated until a woman placed. Cycling? I'm pretty sure women were someone's straight up banned from cycling because men were worried it would make them infertile and/or would be too pleasured by riding over cobblestones (a concern, I've been told, had valid basis, wrong though the conclusion might have been).
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@quixoticgeek Men are fragile, yes, but that's not what is going on in chess afaik. Tournaments are either open (i.e. mixed) or women only. The usual justification given for this is to encourage more women to participate by creating a more welcoming space for them.
edit to add: e.g. Zhu Jiner came in 7th at the TePe Sigeman tournament earlier this month and Bibisara Assaubayeva was 5th in the Tata steel challengers tournament this year.
@redjives @quixoticgeek And , pray tell, why is there a need to create a more welcoming space for women?
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@quixoticgeek That's historically been the case for many sports that are segregated. Marathons? Not segregated until a woman placed. Cycling? I'm pretty sure women were someone's straight up banned from cycling because men were worried it would make them infertile and/or would be too pleasured by riding over cobblestones (a concern, I've been told, had valid basis, wrong though the conclusion might have been).
@StarkRG @quixoticgeek Olympic pistol-shooting, IIRC.
It was mixed until all those poor men got spanked by some chick who didn't even have the decency to be white.Correction: it was skeet, in 1992. Thanks to @folfdk
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@quixoticgeek That's historically been the case for many sports that are segregated. Marathons? Not segregated until a woman placed. Cycling? I'm pretty sure women were someone's straight up banned from cycling because men were worried it would make them infertile and/or would be too pleasured by riding over cobblestones (a concern, I've been told, had valid basis, wrong though the conclusion might have been).
@StarkRG @quixoticgeek Back in WW1 in the UK lots of men's football teams were disbanded as the men went to war. Meanwhile women were coming to work in factories and started forming teams. And since people still wanted to go to watch football, they were getting big crowds. And even after the war ended and men's teams started up again, the women still drew big crowds. This made the men nervous and in 1921 women's teams were banned from FA affiliate grounds. This only changed in the 1970s.
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@noodlemaz @StarkRG @quixoticgeek Hah, snap, I just replied about the same thing. Women's football was specifically excluded and suppressed by the FA for fifty years, for becoming too popular.
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Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.
Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.
Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.
It looks like that the FIDE World Chess Championship is open to individuals without mentionning genre restriction.
On the other hand, FIDE Women Chess Championship is reserved to women, de facto excluding men.
So what is your source to claim that men refuse to be challenged by women ?
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Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.
Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.
Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.
@quixoticgeek is it really? as far as i know, chess usually has mixed and women-only tournaments. i don't think anyone's preventing women from playing in the open league. or at least i've never heard of a chess segment that would ban women. -
Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.
Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.
Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.
@quixoticgeek It's a mini reflection of the world at this point. For relief, I watched, "The Queen's Gambit."
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@quixoticgeek That's historically been the case for many sports that are segregated. Marathons? Not segregated until a woman placed. Cycling? I'm pretty sure women were someone's straight up banned from cycling because men were worried it would make them infertile and/or would be too pleasured by riding over cobblestones (a concern, I've been told, had valid basis, wrong though the conclusion might have been).
@StarkRG @quixoticgeek I’ve been researching the history of women in cycling, and when women first began racing, some races had men and women as relay partners, not opponents.
As for the ‘concerns’ of male doctors about women cyclists, let’s not forget “bicycle face,” a made-up condition intended to appeal to (sexist) beauty standards.
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@quixoticgeek Men are fragile, yes, but that's not what is going on in chess afaik. Tournaments are either open (i.e. mixed) or women only. The usual justification given for this is to encourage more women to participate by creating a more welcoming space for them.
edit to add: e.g. Zhu Jiner came in 7th at the TePe Sigeman tournament earlier this month and Bibisara Assaubayeva was 5th in the Tata steel challengers tournament this year.
@redjives @quixoticgeek
Apparently darts are like chess in that regard, it's either open or women's.
What i find fascinating is that open darts are dominated by men – at the moment the highest woman in the ranking is 77th.
A sport that, jokes about the ability to hold your beer aside, is about the hand eye coordination. Wouldn't have guessed. -
@redjives @quixoticgeek
Apparently darts are like chess in that regard, it's either open or women's.
What i find fascinating is that open darts are dominated by men – at the moment the highest woman in the ranking is 77th.
A sport that, jokes about the ability to hold your beer aside, is about the hand eye coordination. Wouldn't have guessed.@klegdixal @redjives @quixoticgeek This is also about structural marginalization/patriarchy: There might not be a visible barrier for people marginalized because of their gender identity, but privilege hear can mean that certain people are encouraged more an earlier than others.
I once heard a teacher say that gender differences as to in which subjects pupils were good in, where nurture, not nature and increases with age.
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@klegdixal @redjives @quixoticgeek This is also about structural marginalization/patriarchy: There might not be a visible barrier for people marginalized because of their gender identity, but privilege hear can mean that certain people are encouraged more an earlier than others.
I once heard a teacher say that gender differences as to in which subjects pupils were good in, where nurture, not nature and increases with age.
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@klegdixal @redjives @quixoticgeek
Also, lots of so-called "women sports" are not funded as well as their "male" counterparts.As darts is an individual sport, players have to find their own sponsors. I rather don't wanna know how many non-male darts players were told "That's not a sport for you. You won't get successful. I won't bet my money on you." And sponsoring determines if you have to work an additional job or not and how much time you have for training.
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Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.
Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.
Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.
@quixoticgeek
IIRC, that's the story since the 19/20th, as women entered professional sports (alas I don't have a good source on hand).Edit: @StarkRG has already started this topic and added additional “cases” of fragility.
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@noodlemaz @StarkRG @quixoticgeek Hah, snap, I just replied about the same thing. Women's football was specifically excluded and suppressed by the FA for fifty years, for becoming too popular.
@beecycling @noodlemaz @StarkRG @quixoticgeek Wasn't it the same with us baseball during ww2, where they became so popular some few worried it might outcompete the males when they returned?
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It looks like that the FIDE World Chess Championship is open to individuals without mentionning genre restriction.
On the other hand, FIDE Women Chess Championship is reserved to women, de facto excluding men.
So what is your source to claim that men refuse to be challenged by women ?
@tanavit One example:
https://www.issf-sports.org/news/4345Next to that, the history of sports is rife with the exclusion and humiliation of women sporters based on patriarchal White supremacist ideas:
https://thenib.com/gender-divisions-in-sports-trans-athletes/ -
@beecycling @noodlemaz @StarkRG @quixoticgeek Wasn't it the same with us baseball during ww2, where they became so popular some few worried it might outcompete the males when they returned?
@Amorpheus @beecycling @noodlemaz @quixoticgeek
Maybe? Probably. What I know about that time in baseball is mixed up with the fiction of A League of Their Own.
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@klegdixal @redjives @quixoticgeek
Also, lots of so-called "women sports" are not funded as well as their "male" counterparts.As darts is an individual sport, players have to find their own sponsors. I rather don't wanna know how many non-male darts players were told "That's not a sport for you. You won't get successful. I won't bet my money on you." And sponsoring determines if you have to work an additional job or not and how much time you have for training.
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@klegdixal @redjives @quixoticgeek And in ski flying(!), I kid you not, women were entirely banned and subjected to ski jumping at most, because of the long-held falsehood that the uterus would fall out if a woman attempted to do ski flying.
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Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.
Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.
Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.
This was the original reason in the early 1900's, that the Olympics was split into men's and women's events.
Men did NOT like losing to women.
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Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.
Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.
Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.
@quixoticgeek it's literally the astronaut at gunpoint meme.
"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.
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It looks like that the FIDE World Chess Championship is open to individuals without mentionning genre restriction.
On the other hand, FIDE Women Chess Championship is reserved to women, de facto excluding men.
So what is your source to claim that men refuse to be challenged by women ?
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.
