The people who believe rape is bad have. The problem is the ridiculous number of people who don't really think it's bad.
We voted at 10 am, and this is the first year I've seen so many young women at our location. There's been so much advocacy for issue one that I'm very hopeful.
Oof. Fucking FIDE. Trans women should be able to compete in the women's sections.
About the gender gap - the gender gap in performance is a statistical relic of the participation gap. Control for participation and the performance gap vanishes.
Women's sections exist to help promote participation and competition in that cohort. Its the same reason junior sections for kids exist, senior sections for older adults exist, and ratings limited sections like U1200 and U1500 exist.
Unlike other sports, a trans person would have no physiological advantage or disadvantage competing across gendered sections.
What makes this all the more hilarious is that just buying the tickets doesn't do this.
Have you ever been to a film and seen someone come in, stand in the back and then leave a few minutes in?
That's probably an auditor counting filled seats. Ticket sales isn't the only metric folks look at. Actual attendance is tracked too.
Racism is worse, because it's about community - us against them. It provides a focal point for anger and action that doesn't require self reflection or personal growth.
Misanthropy ... Have you met our species? Violent, destructive, shortsighted, tribalistic apes swarming across their only home devouring it resources and destroying their own habitat with careless abandon.
Individual humans - we can be amazing. Humans at moments when we overcome our tribalism and selfishness - wonderful. But humankind? Overall, we suck. Misanthropy just realism.