&gt; &gt; It hurts men and competition by devaluing the prizes.<p>&gt; To quote jstanley again:
&quot;She&#x27;s no better than me, but she is a WGM and I am nothing&quot;<p>Well, don&#x27;t they still have their score? I mean, I&#x27;m not into competitive chess, but everyone has their own ELO, no?<p>&gt; &gt; For whatever reasons, women aren&#x27;t competitive with men (in chess, at this point in time)<p>&gt; I&#x27;d also be curious to hear from you why you think the reasons for this are &quot;whatever reasons&quot; - I&#x27;m presuming by that you mean, that the reasons are inconsequential or they don&#x27;t matter or they are not important. Why do you believe that to be the case, without first knowing what the reasons actually are?<p>I&#x27;m not the author, but what I would have meant by that phrase is &quot;regardless of what the reasons are&quot;. I would have used it because the reasons are essentially unknowable, probably have many different overlapping reasons, and any discussion of those reasons is <i>extremely likely</i> to get bogged down in useless arguments given our collective scientific understanding of this issue at this time.