Quote Originally Posted by Rynjin View Post
Games of skill tend to be evenly matched, but those games don't tend to have weight classes anyway. There's no reason for there to be a "Men's Open" and "Women's Open" for like...billiards and chess for example and we'd definitely be better doing away with them IMO.
The reason for that sort of thing existing is often because environments can be frankly extremely hostile to women attempting these activities, so it's suppose to let people have a healthy environment to participate in, encouraging more people to join up. (Unfortunately, this sort of thing can end up kinda... causing a bit of a feedback loop, where the existence of the separate thing means that the overall environment may not change very much.)