Why are there women leagues for everything?

Question

women league for chess, poker, pool. These are things that don't involve strength so why must there be womens leagues for them. I guess it is because the think that that one gender would dominate the other.

Answer 1

Because men locked women out of leadership, the military, politics and commerce so women were forced to organize seperately in the beginning and those organizations continue to represent women better than the Good O' Boy's club whereever it remains entrenched.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

The Masons:

http://www.westportnow.com/ee/images/upl...

U.S. Presidents:

http://www.onlinegiftplace.com/images/la...

The U.S. Supreme Court before feminism:

http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_hi...

The U.S. Congress before feminism:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/in...

Banking before feminism:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ance...

Executive Board of Directors American Medical Association before feminism:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/f/...

The U.S. Olympic Team before feminism:

http://home.dayton.lib.oh.us/Archives/Ol...

Edit: As I said, men locked women out, women were forced to form their own "leagues" and those "leagues" still represent women's best interests better than does the Boy's Club.  What part of "Working Around Male Entrenched Sexual Bigotry The Best We Can" is so difficult to understand?

Answer 2

Yes. No. Maybe.

Can't get a game, huh?

Wonder what the giveaway is? I mean seeing as how no b@lls are obvious.

Cheers :-)

Answer 3

Lets have a one-on-one match of chess.

I will win.

Because YOU will be too busy staring at the wrong places

Answer 4

Some women get confused and start thinking that they're supposed to do stuff besides cooking and cleaning.

How many women does it take to s***w in a lightbulb?

11.  10 to form a committee and 1 to get her boyfriend to do it.

No but in all honesty, after ages of oppression to women, they deserve to have their own sports leagues.

Answer 5

Duh, If there wasn't they wouldn't win anything! have you ever watched any women's sports? worse than Chinese water torture.

Answer 6

It's because for one reason or another, women just can't compete in these events even on a level playing field.  

Out of 1109 grandmasters of chess only 11 are women.  I think the top women's player is ranked 21st or 22nd in the world.  The rest are far, far behind her.  They actually have a lower grandermaster title for women, though I think feminists would be insulted at the notion of such.

As for poker, I think it's funny how the world poker tour will make a big fuss when there is a few women left in the tournament when there are a few hundred men left.  These things don't require physical strength.

In these cases, even though women have just as much chance as a man to advance, they simply fail.  Women make up all of 1% of grandmasters, and never make the final      table(s) of the WPT.  I couldn't tell you why.

Answer 7

It's because everything men does is considered the default. So, there's basketball, and there's Women's Basketball. There's chess, and there's Women's league chess (or whatever). We are treated as a special interest group despite the fact that we make up half the population.

Answer 8

I once read that male poker players will pee where they sit rather than get up in the middle of a game.

You don't really imagine most women would want to sit on those chairs and play, do you?