@anne_twain @NinjaDebugger @Karen5Lund @therivercrow
Yup. Sports like tennis and shooting that intentionally have different formats for different genders (e.g. 3 games per set vs 5) so you can't compare athletes, should be shamed out of it. And an "open" class is imvho often a good way forward from status quo.
@jaystephens @anne_twain @NinjaDebugger @Karen5Lund @therivercrow also: the people complaining about how mixed-gender competition might result in absolutely toxic levels of sexual harassment (seems likely in a lot of contexts) never seem to care about either homophobic harassment within single-gender teams, nor about sexual harassment of non-team-members by single-gender teams.
The fact is: it might indeed bring out more openly a lot of stuff that happens around the margins or in socially-ignored contexts right now, but avoiding it in order to shove those problems deeper under the rug isn't actually a good thing.
"Open" classes could offer chances for much-needed culture resets as well.