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)
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.
Right wingers hate trans people and will say And do anything to hurt them, No matter how ridiculous.
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.
It turned out that the male throat was just naturally more-biologically-suited to rapidly slide sausages down.
Just makes me think of this:
