Do you think the ratings difference between elite men and elite women is wholly due to sexism?

I could go off on a rant about responsibilities for household maintenance and childrearing and the respect for recreational time for women vs recreational time for men and what the implications of that are for pursuits like chess.

But I'll resist. I'll just leave it that women are de facto excluded from excellence in pursuits for a whole lot of reasons that have nothing to do with innate physical limitations, lack of interest, or hostility from the putrid denizens of their mother's basements. And everything to do with the way our society functions.

for sure

in the early history of chess, it was played by women and was not considered predominantly a men's game like it is today

i’m not sure

probably

not sexism in the sense you might mean it, though, monte

I think sexism is a big factor but at the highest levels of many things, men are more represented than women due to a wider bell curve distribution

I don't know if this is true or not but I've read that there is more variation in males, and thus more geniuses and more catastrophic failures, whereas women are more clustered toward the middle

maybe that y chromosome is a crazy roulette wheel

I have no idea what the science is on this idea but it seems to fit my experience. I've met way more crazy-smart and crazy-stupid men than women

More as it relates to VR's recent post? (VR - nice post, btw) Yeah this is kind of what I was getting at, but I wasn't sure if it was any further explored within the chess community writ large. (And I'm not qualified to assess the veracity of that research even had I investigated it at all rigorously, which I have not.)

Here's an article about the idea, which has been around for a long time:

https://qz.com/441905/men-are-both-d...er-than-women/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...-when-there-is

Thanks, sun.

Mario maker community seems pretty inclusive as well

Why resist though...

Women's happiness has tanked a lot the last thirty years.

I feel like everyone’s happiness has tanked a lot the last thirty years but maybe I’m just a gloomy person

in a youtube I watched yesterday, a wife made a corny joke and her husband said, "that's a dad joke. Wait a second. Why aren't there mom jokes?"

The wife responded, "There are, you just don't notice because you're not listening"

i dont consider her radical at all

the only issue i have with her as a judge is that she believed her job was to sometimes legislate, and that the constitution is a living document at all times; but that's just political opinions. i think her decisions definitely lean left but i do not consider her a radical leftist if that is what you are asking. she was very consistent

yes she always wanted her dissent to be heard even if it didn't matter, which is extremely admirable as well

i dont really understand

should all golf courses remove the ladies tees? is a lady wrong for using them?

i dont get why we cannot have this discussion, and it does not make me a bigot to be willing to discuss it

Reread the posts, nobody called you a bigot.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/50097423

you have all the majority of female athletes in this event upset that a trans woman broke the world record and that would refuse to even compete against her if she were in the olympics

https://www.yahoo.com/now/bloody-jok...093710779.html

but i believe gregory was stripped of medals
yes she was

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...-we-draw-line/

im not trying to be ignorant or bigoted

my cousin tried to commit suicide because he was not comfortable being what society told him he was, and now he identifies as a male. there is nothing wrong with that at all, i do not fully understand it but I completely accept it as his right

but that still doesnt mean i think trans female athletes should be able to compete against cisgender athletes in women's sports

if you want to make the olympic sports all unisex, then men and transgender will probably be the only people who compete in many of them.

i am willing to listen to arguments and how it is fair but im not going to converse if its just going to be omg mets is too dumnb and bigoted for this to be explained to so im not going to waste my time

this is of course 100% true, and even though women are much more included in these things than they were even 30 years ago, it's nowhere near equitable yet because of the patriarchal society we have been accustomed to for so long. i dont think anyone would argue against your point

I did try to put an early stop to any discussion of sports and gender issues...but no to avail.
I like women's table tennis better than men's because women don't have any sort of slower reaction time than men-- but because they have less power they can afford to play closer to the table. This is how someone like Mima Ito at 4'11'' can be ranked #2 and play the game she does.
Ultimately it's faster and more enjoyable for the fans.

this is basically where i am at too

Watching Disclosure, pretty decent so far. Would have never considered buffalo bill a trans person in any capacity. Also feel like the trans woman from L word going on T and suddenly becoming violent could as easily be seen as bigotry towards men, I mean it's basically like the black face men raping white women stuff they showed earlier in the doc.

Obviously not really the point of the doc. I'm walking on trains and being laughed at is quite the miserable existence.