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    BTB did an episode that covered competitive hotdog eating for those interested. IIRC the competitions were coed until a woman started doing well enough to get noticed. Sexism goes so deep, some folks just never want to see a woman beat a man in anything.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKkXErBQSfU

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      So this happened in Olympic skeet shooting, it used to be coed, then in the early 90s where a women won so they split the competition moving forward into men and women.

      Olympic Pistol and Rifle were split in the 80s because a women tied a man (he even won the tie breaker). In pistol and rifle the women course of fire is less than the men’s so you can’t directly compare them either.

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        Those women and their dainty fingers couldn’t possibly shoot as well as us strong and powerful m-- oh

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    This list includes Nathan’s Famous 2021 July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest, which occurs annually at New York’s Coney Island.

    Coney Island is home to the longest running circus sideshow. The park celebrates body diversity, weirdness, and trans people. Half the performers and workers are proudly trans or NB. There really isn’t a worse place for them to try to be transphobic.

    (For context, I perform there. Am trans)

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      Coney Island is great. We went there as part of our honeymoon back in 2000 and loved it. I’m guessing the closed-down amusement park isn’t there anymore. I know the overgrown wooden roller coaster burned down. Those were our favorite parts, but we also enjoyed the overall weirdness. Totally worth the very long subway ride from Brooklyn.

      Edit: This was what the roller coaster looked like. Is that awesome or what?

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      Is Coney Island still worth going to? I thought it got obliterated by that hurricane? My fiancee is coming from overseas soon and I want to show her America, so we’ll definitely be visiting NYC… Would you recommend visiting there while we’re in the area?

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        Oh it’s an amazing place, you should dedicate an entire day to it because there’s so much to do! Be sure to stop by the sideshow at Freak Bar and say hi to all my friends! Also check out It’s Sugar, the boardwalk (get lunch at Rudy’s or Nathan’s), the amusement parks, and the aquarium.

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    It turned out that the male throat was just naturally more-biologically-suited to rapidly slide sausages down.

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    I’ve had to argue with people who claimed trans women had an unfair advantage in professional wrestling.

    Professional wrestling.

    Let that sink in for a second.

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    Right wingers hate trans people and will say And do anything to hurt them, No matter how ridiculous.

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      They used to be. The Major League Eating split them up a few years ago. The current women’s champion, Miki Sudi, would place 6th in the men’s with last year’s results or 3rd in her best year. There is no reason women could not be just as competitive. Size sure as hell is not much of a factor considering former winners have been like 135 lbs.

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    eSports might be true because don’t men have more fast twitch muscles then women?

    Yes the 99.9% reaction time for men us 109 ms for women it is 121 ms. I mean as much as everyone might want to believe their are biological differences besides genatils.

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      Even if that’s true, eSport isn’t always based on reflexes (e.g. card games) and I don’t know about a game that’s not mixed anyway.