i think it’s an admission that the FIDE or whatever can’t police its competitors effectively yeah.
should generations of women who would want to do something have to wait on society to be safe in hobby spaces? desegregating chess and whatnot should be the goal, but if you just delete the womens’ division because you have the power to do that but not the power to fix society then all you’d do is massively reduce participation.
because the stakes are different, there are other structures in place that ostensibly make going to school or work safe® in a way that a club might not be, and everyone is much more interested in demanding/protecting equal access to education and employment than they are to what is for most of us an elective hobby.
sometimes those are the same thing. i literally started by bringing up chess, where it did and has. they’ll probably consolidate eventually, but in the meantime far more women are participating today than would be without it, at all levels, including small clubs where there aren’t enough people to have separate events anyway.
stepping back from chess, by the time you catch a serial harasser how many people has he driven away from some hobby? how much of a panopticon are event organizers supposed to operate?
i think it’s an admission that the FIDE or whatever can’t police its competitors effectively yeah.
should generations of women who would want to do something have to wait on society to be safe in hobby spaces? desegregating chess and whatnot should be the goal, but if you just delete the womens’ division because you have the power to do that but not the power to fix society then all you’d do is massively reduce participation.
how is this not an argument for segregating every single public space and profession. do you hear yourself?
because the stakes are different, there are other structures in place that ostensibly make going to school or work safe® in a way that a club might not be, and everyone is much more interested in demanding/protecting equal access to education and employment than they are to what is for most of us an elective hobby.
so why not advocate for protection rather than segregation. segregation will never lead to increased protection
sometimes those are the same thing. i literally started by bringing up chess, where it did and has. they’ll probably consolidate eventually, but in the meantime far more women are participating today than would be without it, at all levels, including small clubs where there aren’t enough people to have separate events anyway.
stepping back from chess, by the time you catch a serial harasser how many people has he driven away from some hobby? how much of a panopticon are event organizers supposed to operate?