Moment of understanding
Updating to add: Never mind. I was assuming it was a real competition of the athletic kind, and it’s not. This one he can have.
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You can’t.
You can’t. You can’t make “a moment of understanding and education” by competing against women when you are a man, especially when you are a retired professional wrestler man. That’s not “competing.” It’s cheating, which rhymes with competing but that’s where the connection ends.
I can’t get past the “here’s me in The Thinker pose, showing me thinking. Because I’m a deep thinker, you know.”
That sounds like Kanye West. I omitted the first bit of what you said, because Kanye probably hasn’t heard of The Thinker.
Of course it’s a “moment of understanding and education.” His competing helps further the message “You women are fucked and neither I nor anybody else will ever care, capisce?”
At least he’s apparently not going to try playing the “I just wanna run with the other girls so gosh, I’d no idea some people were going to make such a big deal about it” card.
“Fitness competitions” are basically beauty pageants for women who work out intensely but aren’t bodybuilders, they’re not a sport. He’s going to look ridiculous.
Be my guest
https://m.vk.com/@sportslive80-livestream-2021-npc-pacific-usa-xxvii-pro-bikini-live2021
Actually doesn’t look much different than some fitness competitors:
http://npcnewsonline.com/official-npc-fitness-division-rules/
Eava’s link is to a “bikini” bodybuilding competition. Basically they had originally had one female bodybuilding division, but they started getting outrageously roided up and gigantic, so a less-muscled “fitness” division became popular. Then the fitness competitors started getting bigger and bigger, so they added a “figure” division. Then (bet you can’t see this coming!) the figure competitors start getting bigger, so they added a “bikini” division. So fitness is basically 2 muscle levels up from bikini.
Everyone in bodybuilding is taking a bunch of steroids, growth hormone, and all kinds of other stuff, sometimes even things like insulin and thyroid hormones. The mainstream contests are completely untested.
So, honestly, the bodybuilding fitness division is probably a place where a man could compete reasonably fairly with women. The women hormonally are nothing like normal women. Part of the competition is a dance routine, and that’s part of the score, but it’s mostly about looks, so men’s strength and speed advantages really don’t help. They’re all dieted down to super low body fat levels, so they almost all compensate by having large implants, so the women’s and transwomen’s chests are going to look the same. They’re also in a division where they get penalized for going too far with muscular development, and all the women are right on the edge of that line, so no advantage to men there.
I do agree with Eava that Tuft is likely to bomb. Even thought the women are quite muscular, the winning ones tend to have a basic female body structure (small waist with some flare to the hips), so Tuft is going to look thick-waisted and blocky.
Ultimately it’s such a freak niche sport that I personally can’t get too worked up about this. I enjoyed and followed strength sports when I was younger, and that included bodybuilding, but now bodybuilding has gone so far off the rails that I just peak in at it now and then to see how ridiculous it’s gotten. It’s a shame because there was a stretch where they decided to drug test very seriously, and that seemed to be going pretty well, then they dropped the tests and all the competitors turned into drug monsters. Definitely took the wrong fork in the road.
Ah. I got this one wrong then.
So did I — assumed it had to do with running.
I suppose this then is roughly analogous to a trans man who hasn’t taken hormones competing in a drag show contest. The difference is, if Tuft wins the Women’s Fitness Competition, people will ooh and aah over how inclusive and barrier-breaking it is, and the other competitors will have to grin and pretend that’s great.
If a TIF wins the Drag Show Contest, I don’t see the losers being quite so supportive.
Skeletor: Have you ever run across Oil-ympians”? There is a very politically incorrect video blogger whose channel OE Fitness features these sad people. These are guys (almost always guys) who INJECT VEGETABLE OIL into their traps and biceps to make them look big. They do not look like “real” muscle (natural or steroid-enhanced) but like soft, bloated pillows. It is terrifying. And, of course, the injected body parts get infected and need to be drained! Truly terrifying how body dysmorphia has spread, at least partly because of social media. Which is remarkably similar, as has been noted here elsewhere, to the dysmorphia associated with the whole Trans delusion. I can’t decide which is freakier.
Skeletor: these women are so fake tanned I can’t tell their race or ethnicity.
What’s with the talons on the ends of his fingers?
Don’t all real women have them?
He’s a man of many talons.
I think it’s called “Tat Scratch Fever.”