Dr. Rachel McKinnon / Dr. Veronica Ivy / Rhys McKinnon / Rachel Veronica McKinnon / Foxy Moxy / SportIsARight - failed out of a tenured job,man who competes in womens sports, gained like 100 lbs in 2022 (page 813), comically fell off bike before a race (page 830)

[AnOminous]

Only troons get to decide what constitutes as trunsphobia but women don't have the right to protest against blokes like Rhys declaring themselves female (or vice versa for men and TiFs)? Really gets your noggin joggin

Troons can scream their insane bullshit all they like. Nobody gives a fuck what troons think.

 

[Brain Problems]

Exhibit 7533794 in "Basic Manners v. McKinnon's Need to Make Everything into an Argument." Dude. If you're tweeting about your vacation and one of your followers takes the time to make a sincere, reasonable suggestion about something they think you might enjoy, just say thank you. Yes, even if you think it's a dumb suggestion and there's no chance you'll actually do it. If you want to head off future questions about how it was, you can toss in something like "My itinerary is pretty packed but I'll definitely keep that in mind if I get some free time."

You nailed it exactly. He's such an argumentative turbo-sped narcissist that basic human interaction is beyond him. I don't know what he's like in person and god willing I never will but I wonder if he's actually this much of a prick in real life or if he's just a petty, passive-aggressively pulling shit behind the scenes and fairly milquetoast. I just remember a lot of the philosophy majors I interacted with back in the day were genuinely miserable people to be around and incapable of having a normal conversation without trying to do mental ju-jitsu on you for invisible asspats.

 

[Positron]

Media people! If you have nothing good to say about troons, you should shut up!

Likewise for cis philosophers:

This is published in Women and Language, vol. 41.1. As par his style, this is an extremely chatty article, no more "academic" than the average gossip column in Cosmopolitian. The gist is the old grievance studies chestnut: it's an oppressed thing, you won't understand.

To quote:

"... while it might be easier for trans* people to come to understand the oppressive consequences of debating the legitimacy of trans* identities, it is harder for cis people to come to this knowledge!"​

In merely 7 days, Kathleen Stock compiled the complaints of 26 academic staff and 2 students, most of them women, who had to go through the auto-da-fé for troon-related wrongthink -- "she makes transphobic tweets and makes me feel unsafe" is the typical charge. Anecdotal to be sure, but such a large collection is a good start.

Now would Rhys and Christa present their best evidence that troons are being oppressed in academia.

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Rhys gets himself involved in another troon's scam:

I know nothing about gaming culture but why the fuck you need money to buy yourself out of a gaming group? If it's an online game, just delete it; if it's a tabletop, just don't turn up!

Yeah it's called seeding the pot.

Unfortunately, Rhys is the absolute worst accomplice a scammer could have:

I still don't get the "context"; this convo just strengthens my impression that it is a scam and Rhys is into it.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

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Media people! If you have nothing good to say about troons, you should shut up!
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Likewise for cis philosophers:
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This is published in Women and Language, vol. 41.1. As par his style, this is an extremely chatty article, no more "academic" than the average gossip column in Cosmopolitian. The gist is the old grievance studies chestnut: it's an oppressed thing, you won't understand.

To quote:

"... while it might be easier for trans* people to come to understand the oppressive consequences of debating the legitimacy of trans* identities, it is harder for cis people to come to this knowledge!"​

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In merely 7 days, Kathleen Stock compiled the complaints of 26 academic staff and 2 students, most of them women, who had to go through the auto-da-fé for troon-related wrongthink -- "she makes transphobic tweets and makes me feel unsafe" is the typical charge. Anecdotal to be sure, but such a large collection is a good start.

Now would Rhys and Christa present their best evidence that troons are being oppressed in academia.

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Rhys gets himself involved in another troon's scam:
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I know nothing about gaming culture but why the fuck you need money to buy yourself out of a gaming group? If it's an online game, just delete it; if it's a tabletop, just don't turn up!

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Yeah it's called seeding the pot.

Unfortunately, Rhys is the absolute worst accomplice a scammer could have:
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I still don't get the "context"; this convo just strengthens my impression that it is a scam and Rhys is into it.

Um, no. If I saw someone post something like "I have a contract with my gaming group I need to buy out", I'd need some details. I'm not going to accept some shit like that at face value, because what the hell kind of gaming group has a contract with a 150 quid buy-in?

 

[OttoWest]

So the “friend” in question paid some kind of membership fee for a gaming group, got tossed out, and now has no cash for bills? And Rheeeeees wants everyone to chip in for this guy’s refund?

...except he really doesn’t because how else is he going to flaunt his superiority by screaming about that time he totally gave a random person thirty bucks.

 

[Potatis Salad]

So the “friend” in question paid some kind of membership fee for a gaming group, got tossed out, and now has no cash for bills? And Rheeeeees wants everyone to chip in for this guy’s refund?

...except he really doesn’t because how else is he going to flaunt his superiority by screaming about that time he totally gave a random person thirty bucks.

And it wasn't even like a Gofundme where you could tell how much had been raised; donors were just throwing money at a random troon's PayPal. Rhys just tweeted "Y'all raised more than enough" so god only knows how much he made off with in the end.

I don't doubt for a second that the troon is broke, but the excuse for why he needs handouts is bizarre and not believable. Rhys's reaction of flying off the fucking handle at anyone who dared to question it though? Completely predictable.

 

[Kosher Dill]

This is published

Good Lord.
Look, we all know this dude's arguments are moronic, so let's vary up our rolling peer review a bit and just review the style. This article is a mere 2.5 pages but it's chock-a-block with infelicities.

Clanging, Jangling Repeats
Page 1: "The article in question is spectacularly poor scholarship."
Page 2: "This is a spectacular failure of feminist praxis"
And just a few lines further down on page 2: "It's a spectacular failure of a central feature of feminist thought".

Page 1: "It purposefully ignores decades of research by trans* scholars"
Page 2: "Well, this could only be true if one ignores decades of trans* studies scholarship"

Page 1: "but I think that would unduly give more visibility to what I think is an abhorrent piece of scholarship"
I think this is a poor sentence by someone I think is an incompetent philosopher who I think should be ashamed of publishing this.

Nonsensical Sentence Structure And Argumentation:
Page 1: "I like to be up front in my work on what I think"
While his output really does amount to nothing more than "his work on what he thinks", that's clearly not what he meant here.

Page 2: "we should be deeply cispicious of anyone who writes an opening paragraph like that and then keeps going. lt's a spectacular failure of a central feature of feminist thought: standpoint epistemologies".
What's this? A central feature of feminist thought has failed? Obviously he meant a failure to understand or apply these concepts, but no one involved in the publication of this article seems to have read the article.

Page 2: "One failing I find in many who seem to endorse some version of standpoint epistemology is that they forget that the privilege thesis has a converse implication"
"Seem to endorse some version"? That could be anyone or no one. And is he saying that ignoring the privilege thesis is not a failing as long as you refuse to endorse standpoint epistemology? Also note that he vacillates between "epistemology" and "epistemologies" in this paper. Obviously he's trying not to step on anyone's toes by saying there's one particular way to do feminist philosophy, but the result is nonsensical vagueness.
In fact, he can't even keep the number of standpoint epistemologies straight within one sentence. From the footnotes of page 2:
"I explain standpoint epistemologies, and apply it to the epistemology of gender transitions"
Apparently there is only one of the latter.

Page 3: "And even when cis scholars do read some trans* work, it's usually a tiny, non-representative selection. But fucking it up doesn't harm the cis scholars: their lives aren't up for debate. Their right to exist in public spaces, let alone their safety, isn't in jeopardy. But trans* lives are. This is prevalent in cis involvement in trans* studies."
What is prevalent? Putting trans lives in jeopardy?

Vanity
And how about this for sheer hubris: in addition to the self-citation mentioned above, he adds nine of his own works in the "References" section, including the same paper twice (once as a Youtube presentation and once as a paper). This while in the selfsame paper crowing about how citation is power and he wants to deny it to his opponents

Sloppy Citation
First and most obviously, the "Feminist Philosophers" blog post this is supposedly reacting to isn't cited at all! I guess you're just supposed to break out Google on your own if you want to read the piece in its entirety for yourself.
Second: some more lazy internet use.
"Google defines a hot take as: "a piece of commentary, typically produced quickly in response to a recent event, whose primary purpose is to attract attention.""
This is uncited, and in fact another 5 seconds on Google reveals that their dictionary data is actually licensed from Oxford Dictionaries:

Hot Take | Definition of Hot Take by Lexico

What does hot take mean? hot take is defined by the lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries as A piece of commentary, typically produced quickly in response to a recent event, whose primary purpose is to attract ...

www.lexico.com

How hard would it have been to cite the actual author here?

I'm not even going to get into the obnoxious tone and the unexplained neologisms.

The journal that this was published in is here, I'm dropping the link because it took me a while to find.

HOME | Women&LanguageSite

www.womenandlanguage.org

The listed author of the PDF document, Michelle Dreiling, is an editor for it.

 

[Positron]

Too be fair philos are notorious for hedging; their writings are usually chock full of "I think", "It seems to me", "In my estimation" and such like. Still, Rhys's mixture of hedging and hubris is a sight to behold.

 

[ComZet]

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Yeah it's called seeding the pot.

Unfortunately, Rhys is the absolute worst accomplice a scammer could have:
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I still don't get the "context"; this convo just strengthens my impression that it is a scam and Rhys is into it.

This is his entire philosophy, for literally anything

"don't ask questions, just accept what I say as absolute truth, evidence of my claims isn't required" usually accompanied with an insult

 

[GenderCop]

Did rhys always act this way? Or does he think "being a woman" = being a bitch all the time?

why does he even snap at/insult people who seem to like him? even zach knows how to flirt back with the semi-literate rabble who follow him. what an extremely fucked up person.

after troonery is discredited & his 'celebrity' dries up, he'll be just another unhappy tranny failure. no personality at all, except bitching & moaning.

no wonder he can't get any dates.

 

[heathercho]

Did rhys always act this way? Or does he think "being a woman" = being a bitch all the time?

why does he even snap at/insult people who seem to like him? even zach knows how to flirt back with the semi-literate rabble who follow him. what an extremely fucked up person.

after troonery is discredited & his 'celebrity' dries up, he'll be just another unhappy tranny failure. no personality at all, except bitching & moaning.

no wonder he can't get any dates.

Narcs are born like that. He's become braver because he has an echo chamber, I would wager.

This is his entire philosophy, for literally anything

"don't ask questions, just accept what I say as absolute truth, evidence of my claims isn't required" usually accompanied with an insult

"Then be confused silently."
"Do it silently bitch, you're ruining my vibe".

The way he speaks is amazingly familiar...

 

[AnOminous]

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The only good thing about this troon piece of shit being in propaganda "documentaries" is that it's hard to imagine anyone more disgusting and unappealing than this complete dick.

after troonery is discredited & his 'celebrity' dries up, he'll be just another unhappy tranny failure. no personality at all, except bitching & moaning.

Unfortunately, he'll still be a tenured professor, abusing students and colleagues alike while contributing nothing whatsoever of use.

 

[Kirkorov]

Holy shit.

Been away for awhile, and catching up on Rhys. How did he get so fat, so fast?

Random NPCing about J. K. Rowling:
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The link just points to Rowling answering fans' question on Media, and the page hasn't been updated for a while. I've yet to find out which Rat tail did she step on this time.

This I know the answer to. So, the Tranny Thought Police regularly stalk/scan Rowling's "Likes" and activity for unclean thoughts/actions, and they noticed that she's following famous "Terf" Magdalen Berns.

They went fucking ballistic. Articles were written of Troony tots dreams shattered, badgered Rowling on Twitter demanding she admit she is a huge transphobe that wants all trans people dead etc etc.

In other news, this is the grifting Troon that "had to pay a fee to leave a gaming group" (whatever the fuck that means? What was it, a gang that trafficked trannies, took their passports until they paid their debt?).



AGAIN with the gross tongue out pose. When will these gamma goblins ever learn they aren't kawaii animu girls?

 

[DemonicMustache]

The people who interact with his Twitter account are a parade of fucking freaks. Almost 100% of them are hilarious-looking troons, and they often have complicating factors like furrydom or chronic illness. Who else would want to interact with his chimping?

Anyway, check out our world champion athlete's excuses for why he won't take a ride over one of Portland's scenic bridges. First of all, he's a "purebred" track cyclist! Nevermind the fact that he was JUST bitching about how he used to race crit (a type of road racing) but was forced to quit because his female competitors were so unfair. And second, he only has a track bike with him, and everyone knows that nobody in Portland, OR would ever ride a fixed gear bicycle on the streets.* What's that? There are public bikes to rent? Nah. Like all champion cycling athletes, Rhys doesn't ride up hills.

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*Just a note for people who don't know/care about bicycles: riding fixed gear (track-style) bikes outside of a velodrome track was a giant fad a few years back, most of all in hipster cycling enclaves like Portland. And Portland is not insanely hilly. The real reason Rhys doesn't want to cycle over a scenic Portland bridge is that he is lazy and doesn't actually enjoy cycling.

It's also because he is shaped like a barge. He'd probably have to walk the bike up the hill. He is lazy...and why wouldn't you ride up a hill?

 

[Positron]

Rhys is more popular than MumsNet:

Pronoun bullshit:

He needs to experience some genuine macroaggression before he knows what it is.

Rhys is busy reminding people he is LITERALLY a PUBLISHED ACADEMIC.

Kathleeen Stockkkkkkkkkk!!!!!

As I've said, plenty of philosophical hot takes (such as Universals vs Particulars, and anything concerning Mereology) have been under discussion for millennia. Decades is nothing.

If Philosophy seems to side with Gender Critics, it is just because they allow discussion when troons like Rhys shut down discussion altogether. You can only publish "trans women are women" and "sports is a human right" so many times.

A rare crossover with another intellectual!

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More furry bullshit:

Fortunately these are valve stickers, not vulva stickers. Rhys has no use of those.

In other news, this is the grifting Troon that "had to pay a fee to leave a gaming group" (whatever the fuck that means? What was it, a gang that trafficked trannies, took their passports until they paid their debt?).

Don't ask. Asking is TWANSPHOBIC!

The YaKatyaJezzeh Twitter account is 3 days old. Another sign that it is a scam.

 

[Pickerd]

I don't understand the "terfs are white supremacists" line of argument. Do they truly believe this, or are they simply trying to tar people with the worst thing they can think of?

 

[SourDiesel]

Well here is the CBC interview finally. I have three takeaways:
1) Rhys ends up looking like the lunatic he his, even with what I assume is "nice" CBC editing.
2) CBC actually seems to be trying to be non-partisan here. Not sure it was entirely successful, but this was better than I expected.
3) Holy SHIT he looks doughy moving around on video. Like fucking chubby as all fuck. No shit he placed "well back" against the men. Though he probably did that as on purpose as he could knowing he was being recorded for CBC.

Do transgender athletes have an unfair advantage in sport?

Transgender issues will be front and centre at the 2020 Olympics — with two Canadians in the middle of the controversy. Welcome to The National, the flagship...

youtu.be

 

[Cryin RN]

Source.
"Lol looks like a man" is the cheapest of shots, but... like...

 

[SourDiesel]

Source.
"Lol looks like a man" is the cheapest of shots, but... like...

Suck in that gut harder, Rhys. And don't forget to pose with your hands on your love handles. Perfect!

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

No tone at all, he barely has a shape. He looks to be in roughly the same shape as the average 30 year old midwestern fag on grindr. sloppy as fuck.