I wish I had the opportunity to pick this up . Really wanted to play the new Pokemon game <| sep |> Fun fact and spoiler Pavel won that match . <| sep |> Ew , dude . Just no . <| sep |> Oh I do that plenty lol trust me <| sep |> I don ' t think you should forget that people are awful , but the forgiving them is for your sake , not theirs . Take it from me . A good therapist can help you with some of that misery so long as you make the effort to HELP YOURSELF . You don ' t deserve to be miserable because others are assholes . P . SFuck yo ' mama <| sep |> I would argue that are significantly more competitive now , however there has been a simultaneous increase of competition in the male dominated scene , thus resulting in no narrowing of the competition gap . Mathematically , you will never achieve ' more competition ' for the sheer basis that there will always be more people competing in open competition than there are in female only competition . Imagine that , for example , both male and female player pools are equally large and the prize pool is equivalent . Say , for the sake of convenience , that there are 100 competitive men and 100 competitive women , and the prize pool for each is 1 million dollars . For the women , they have a 1 in 100 chance of winning 1 million dollars , for an EV of 10 k . For open competition , women have a 1 in 200 chance of winning 1 million dollars , for an EV of 5 k . Raising the prize pool doesn ' t change the fact that it ' s already easier for women to make a living in femaleonly competition than risk it in open competition . That ' s the exact principle that Judit Polgar was arguing for when she claimed that womenonly chess tournaments were bad for the long term development of women ' s chess . At no point , as long as it ' s open vs segregated competition , does it become EV to compete in open competition . You ' re talking about an utopian situation that does not exist , based solely on wishful thinking more prize pool more competition . Yes , it will result in more competition , for women ' s tournaments . It would not , in any conceivable fashion , result in more competition for women vs men , even if prize pools were equal . Adding more money into the women ' s prize purse does not create integration , it encourages separation . What would encourage integration is prize purses for women competitors in open competition , rather than a separate female scene . That way maybe you ' ll see a few freakishly skilled women play on mix teams and try to grind their way to the top . controversial subject blocking researchIt ' s well known that controversial subjects are much harder to get funding and much harder to have its findings accepted in popular perception , regardless of how scientifically accurate it may be . You ' re welcome to ask researchers you know about this .