• BabyVi@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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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    8 months ago

    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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    This will keep happening to cisgender women- they will be accused of being trans just to attack them. It’s bad enough that trans women are getting attacked, but this is just widening the net.