{"id":25254,"date":"2019-11-01T18:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25254"},"modified":"2019-11-01T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T07:01:25","slug":"rachel-mckinnon-is-a-cheat-and-a-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25254","title":{"rendered":"Rachel McKinnon Is a Cheat and a Bully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Rachel_Mckinnon.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel McKinnon Is a Cheat and a Bully\" class=\"wp-image-25255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Rachel_Mckinnon.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Rachel_Mckinnon-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A good read. It starts off: Rachel McKinnon \u2014 the so-called defending \u201cworld champion\u201d of women\u2019s track cycling \u2014 is a man. I\u2019ll repeat that so my meaning cannot be misconstrued. He is a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe my kind-hearted reader is offended by this blunt phrasing. Why am I calling McKinnon a man \u2014 when, perhaps for complicated reasons, he would rather be called a woman? Why don\u2019t I compromise and call him a \u201ctrans woman,\u201d as others do? Or be polite and address him by \u201cshe\/her\u201d pronouns, like everyone else in the media?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I\u2019ll tell you why, since you asked. This is precisely the well-meant, tragically na\u00efve logic that has enabled a structure of lies and tyranny to be erected around us, a structure that most cannot opt out of without incurring an enormous social cost. It is a structure in which cheating and viciousness are rewarded while civility and truth-telling are punished. Rachel McKinnon is the perfect example of how this structure works and operates, as well as why we should resist it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/10\/rachel-mckinnon-is-a-cheat-and-a-bully\/amp\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/10\/rachel-mckinnon-is-a-cheat-and-a-bully\/amp\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good read. It starts off: Rachel McKinnon \u2014 the so-called defending \u201cworld champion\u201d of women\u2019s track cycling \u2014 is a man. I\u2019ll repeat that so my meaning cannot be misconstrued. He is a man. Maybe my kind-hearted reader is offended by this blunt phrasing. Why am I calling McKinnon a man \u2014 when, perhaps &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rachel McKinnon Is a Cheat and a Bully&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25256,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25254\/revisions\/25256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}