{"id":76745,"date":"2021-02-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76745"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:04:25","slug":"22road-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76745","title":{"rendered":"2+2=Road Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Got any questions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t bring &#8217;em to Erin Maye Quade, former MN state representative, 2018 Lieutenant Governor candidate, and (along with former commenter Dog Gone and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71570\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"71570\">William Davis<\/a>) one of the Minnesota DFL&#8217;s most imortant intellectual thought leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, being a thought leader, she&#8217;s got the answers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trans girls are girls and trans boys are boys. When trans girls compete in girl\u2019s sports, there are no boys competing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O5nAnbMPHA\">https:\/\/t.co\/O5nAnbMPHA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erin Maye Quade (@ErinMayeQuade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErinMayeQuade\/status\/1357031872988069893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So a trans woman, having experienced none of growing up as a bio-female, can not only appropriate a lifetime of bio-female experience, but in so doing scoop up all the scholarships &#8211; which, I hasten to add, are what put a lot of working-class bio-girls a shot at a higher education (for what little that seems to be worth these days)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems a little&#8230;misogynistic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My daughter grew up playing basketball in elementary school and junior high with, and against, a bunch of very talented, largely black girls from Frogtown, the Midway and the North End.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of these girls, even at 10-13 years old, were already working <em>hard <\/em>on their games, in hopes of getting scholarships.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m dying to see how Ms. Maye Quade would explain to those working-class girls how not only were their scholarships going to bio-boys, but they&#8217;d best shut up about it if they ever wanted to do lunch at the Saint Paul Grill again.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m just waiting for a bunch of bio-guys who couldn&#8217;t quite make the NBA, and are tired of playing in Italy and Poland, to &#8220;transition&#8221; and dominate the living s**t out of the WNBA and Women&#8217;s Soccer. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got any questions? Don&#8217;t bring &#8217;em to Erin Maye Quade, former MN state representative, 2018 Lieutenant Governor candidate, and (along with former commenter Dog Gone and William Davis) one of the Minnesota DFL&#8217;s most imortant intellectual thought leaders. Because, being a thought leader, she&#8217;s got the answers: So a trans woman, having experienced none of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,49],"tags":[430],"class_list":["post-76745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women","category-pc","category-science","tag-erin-maye-quade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76750,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76745\/revisions\/76750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}