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)

Someone's narc injury is showing...

I do very much like how much Rhys harps on about being an expert on gaslighting. He certainly utilises it frequently, much more often than he writes about it.

And of course he not only somehow has disability considerations based on bullshit, but also has clearly worked out the bare minimum he has to do for his job. The fun thing being he failed at even doing that.

Worst of all for his school, is that they blasted his shittiness as a professor but still gave a final appraisal of 'satisfactory'. They're getting the worst of both worlds - a review that pays enough lip service to troon teflon to keep him employed, but with enough honest feedback as to inspire a massive tard rage and what seems to be lolsuits from an aggrieved narcissist.

You'd feel sorry for them if this isn't exactly what they were signing up for. We always knew Rhys would make them regret that decision, and if they think he was hell to work with before we all know it's only going to get worse.

I can't wait.
 
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Worst of all for his school, is that they blasted his shittiness as a professor but still gave a final appraisal of 'satisfactory'.
My read there is that to go beyond that point would invite a confrontation involving actual administrative processes and consequences, i.e. they'd have to do something about him. I suspect that they hope to make Rhys unwelcome enough that he goes elsewhere on his own steam.

Instead, Rhys will stick around out of spite, and because he knows he'll never get a better deal anywhere else.
 
Worst of all for his school, is that they blasted his shittiness as a professor but still gave a final appraisal of 'satisfactory'.
I think their hands are tied to some extent. Take his "very good" teaching evaluation - I'm sensing a real reluctance to micromanage because of the precedents it might set.
Rhys' choice of topics is stupid? Yes, but everyone in the department has their pet topic and they'd like to be able to work it in when it's their turn to teach PHIL 101. We'll chalk this up to a professional difference of opinions.
Rhys' assignments are stupid? Yes, but they "may be able to cover the material" and "serve useful purposes". And nobody wants to be told that they must assign exactly X pages of writing a semester. We'll chalk this up to a professional difference of opinions.
Rhys' class sucks? Well, the student evals are great (because it's a zero-work class), and as an administrator I don't want to admit that student evals are meaningless. We'll just go with the flow on this.

And so on. It's really earthshattering that Dr. K engaged in any substantive criticism at all in this venue.
 
Rhys McKinnon said:
52nd, I have never heard of a department chair, in an annual evaluation, going into this level of detail on the specifics of arguments that a faculty member under review makes, and how responding to such arguments would bear on that faculty member’s future promotion evaluation.
This is exactly the point I made. But Rhys deserves exceptional treatment because he is exceptional.

It just occurs to me that if Rhys is so thin-skinned and feels personal hurt by dissent, he should have stuck to abstract subjects in metaphysics and logic, rather than hot tranny and nigger issues that he feels emotionally invested in. No one grew red in the face when discussing the possibility of Backward Causation; no ever went 41% when told that Russellian Ramification will not eradicate all paradoxes in Set Theory.

I think their hands are tied to some extent. Take his "very good" teaching evaluation - I'm sensing a real reluctance to micromanage because of the precedents it might set.
The department must nevertheless put their foot down that certain subjects (such as the history and important results) MUST be taught before the lecturer rambles about poker and dick jokes. Otherwise it is just an open-mic night for pathological narcissists.
 
I get busy for a couple days and when I come back Rhys is a slumlord with shell corporations and is getting viciously spit-roasted by his boss? I... he can add this to the 38 points he still needs (58 is for amateurs, if you're going to go that far you need at least 95+1).

He's done the public service of inducing widespread mirth. He's brought us joy in dark times. I, for one, laughed so hard it hurt for the first time in weeks.

Positron has brought me greater joy, though.
 
By the way, the thing about Rhys' "EEOC complaint" is interesting. From Dr. K's report:

you had FMLA leave for most of Spring 2019, and alternative duties limited to research and service for the remaining weeks of that semester
You did complete the small service projects assigned to you during your alternative duties in the spring of 2019.
You did not attend a single department meeting or event, either in person or by Skype, and so absented yourself from every departmental deliberation and activity. Though you have disability accommodations from the EEO office, those accommodations say, “It is essential that all faculty attend department meetings and participate in the governance of the program.”

So Rhys is already off the hook for everything related to his Internet PTSD vacation. Leaving aside his bogus "free speech" complaints, there are really only two negative service-related items he could be talking about here: blowing off the undergraduate research review (at a time when he was not on leave), or blowing off the department meetings that he specifically agreed were required when he got his "disability" accommodation.
I'd love it if someone could bait the good doctor into releasing his EEOC complaint, because it's bound to be the pettiest nonsense ever.

The department must nevertheless put their foot down that certain subjects (such as the history and important results) MUST be taught
Well, must they? Dr. K seems like he's serious about philosophy in the academy, but @capsaicin and others painted us a picture of a department where you can just kind of do whatever as long as you don't rock the boat.
 
Larry Krasnoff said:
Though you have disability accommodations from the EEO office
Veronica Ivy, world champion woman cyclist who can out-lift any gymrat dudebro, claims "disability accommodations"? :story:
(But really I should be sad that his college took his e-mail induced PTSD seriously)

And of course he not only somehow has disability considerations based on bullshit, but also has clearly worked out the bare minimum he has to do for his job. The fun thing being he failed at even doing that.
His only purpose in the department is such that they can say "oooh-hoh we have a TRANS faculty member!". They should just plastinate him and put him in the doorway as the department mascot. He'd be less toxic that way.
 
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Veronica Ivy, world champion woman cyclist who can out-lift any gymrat dudebro, claims "disability accommodations"? :story:
(But really I should be sad that his college took his e-mail induced PTSD seriously)
Someone needs to point out to him that getting PTSD from emails makes him a total pussy and shows that he’s considerably weaker than the average person. That’ll cure his disability.
 
The more positive part of Rhys' evaluation reminds of a sketch a famous Dutch comedian performed long ago.

It's that of a father whose rebellious 14-year old daughter one day comes home with a boyfriend many years older. The father doesn't like the new lover one bit but knows that direct disapproval will only make his daughter more obstinate.

So instead, he decides to praise the boy. About how well he dresses, how polite he is. How he always helps with the chores like the ideal son-in-law. He praises him and praises him, sir, straight into the grave.

A few weeks later the relationship is over.

Project on Rhys and his department head.
 
All right, I wrote up some notes on Rhys' rebuttal, I'm going to spoiler it so people don't have to be exposed to excessive autism.

First, Dr. Krasnoff falsely claims that “Gaslighting as Epistemic Violence” and “Luck and Norms” were not peer-reviewed: they were.

Both Routledge and Rowman and Littlefield are respected academic publishers with rigorous review processes. Articles published in edited volumes in philosophy undergo preliminary peer review by the volume editors...
This is an interesting little dodge. Rhys is claiming that the "review" provided by an encyclopedia editor is the same as academic peer review. This is academic work, the editors are my peers, and they're reviewing it, therefore it's academic peer review. Right?!

Third, I underwent tenure review in 2018.
Rhys has this weird habit of making "points" out of facts that aren't in dispute, or of his personal opinions.

Fifth, from what I can discern, Dr. Krasnoff has not denied this request to any other faculty in the Philosophy Department since his time as chair. That is, I am the only tenured faculty member who has had a request to rollover their performance evaluation ratings from their most recent full performance evaluation or major evaluation.
Throughout, Rhys expects to be treated just like all his colleagues even if his performance and actions are nothing like his colleagues.
You can also swap in "women" for "his colleagues".

In fact, it is entirely normal for a faculty member to shift their research focus post-tenure. That is no justification for denying a request to rollover evaluation ratings.
The actual policy simply states that the chair must either accept the request or give a reason why not, it's left entirely up to the chair's discretion. The notion of an "invalid justification" doesn't exist in the rules.

Seventh, Dr. Krasnoff has not published any work in my areas of research in epistemology, feminist epistemology, metaphysics of luck, trans philosophy, and sports ethics.
As discussed above, Rhys denies anyone's authority to judge his work unless they published in his particular fields.

Tenth, my 2019 “Luck and Norms” chapter is a third of a trilogy of articles I have published on the metaphysics of luck
This is somewhat absurd. His first two luck papers were published in 2013 and 2014 when he still went as "Rhys", and there's no mention of them being planned as a trilogy. In fact, the latest paper gives no indication that it's the culmination or conclusion of anything. It's a trilogy only in the "ever-expanding" way "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was. The 2019 paper is also mostly a rehash (with many direct quotes and paraphrases) of the earlier papers, as Dr. K points out - even its cavalier claim that some Gettier cases are knowledge was originally floated in the 2014 one.

I reject both characterizations that this paper is “highly derivative of the earlier two essays published on luck” and that “given its relation to the earlier work, [its quality is] nothing special either.”

12th, Dr. Krasnoff’s use of “nothing special either” is inflammatory and inappropriate
How is it "inflammatory and inappropriate" to say that given that a paper is highly derivative, it is nothing special? That's practically tautological.

My chapter has been cited 68 times thus far.

This chapter has more citations than any of Dr. Krasnoff’s individual works in the past 20 years.
So? It's not a contest and Dr. K's not up for review.

18th, I am a world-leading expert on the topic of epistemic injustice, and particularly gaslighting. Within philosophy, I was commissioned to write the Philosophy Compass article on “Epistemic Injustice” in 2016. Philosophy Compass’s ‘Overview’ reads as follows:

Unique in both range and approach, Philosophy Compass is an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research from and current thinking from across the entire discipline. In an age of hyper-specialization, Philosophy Compass provides an ideal starting point for the non-specialist, offering pointers for researchers, teachers and students alike, to help them find and interpret the best research in the field.
Why is he citing their ad copy? :lol:

23rd, thus
(...)
23th, therefore
23nd: you suck.

23th, therefore, my 2019 publications “Gaslighting as Epistemic Violence” and “Luck and Norms” clearly falsify Dr. Krasnoff’s claim “that the focus of [my] research has shifted from issues in epistemology and pragmatic philosophy of language to a particular area of applied ethics, the participation of transgender and intersex athletes in women’s sports.”
Here, Rhys creates a diversion with a bit of rules-lawyering over a previous evaluation, and hopes you forget that the two papers in question were insubstantial. The existence of these papers doesn't prove you're still focusing on these topics if they're nothing papers.

27th, the use of first-person account case studies is industry standard in applied ethics
Note that the "first-person account" they're talking about here is not actually first-person! The case study they're discussing is ostensibly about a transgender cyclist named "Victoria". Both RM and Dr. K see no need to keep up the pretense that this is about anyone other than himself.
But I'm glad Rhys follows all industry standards. Perhaps he'll become the first ISO 9000-certified philosopher.

31st, Dr. Krasnoff seems to have wholly overlooked the prestigious presentations of my research that I gave in 2019.
So? At a tenure review, who cares if you read a PowerPoint to a bunch of non-academics?

38th, in his 2019 evaluation, Dr. Krasnoff substantially misunderstands and misrepresents the ‘argument’ in this line of work: it is categorically not about “challeng[ing] the view that the normative basis for the distinction between men’s and women’s sports rests on the physiological differences between men’s and women’s biology.”

39th, in fact, my work on this topic is about how such physiological differences, insofar as they even exist, are largely irrelevant to the real issue: whether trans women have the right to compete in women’s sport as women.
Aaaaaand he dodges the question that Dr. K suggested he not dodge :lol: Good luck with that.

44th, I suspect that Dr. Krasnoff has not made such comments in any of his annual evaluations for other members of the Philosophy Department.

If this is true, then I am likely receiving unfair disparate treatment. One can only speculate whether it is because the work that Dr. Krasnoff calls “of questionable scholarly quality” involves a case study of harassment that a trans woman athlete received, and that I am a world-famous trans woman athlete.
Remember back at "27th" where everyone agreed that this is a first-person account? Now he's back to arguing that it's not a first-person account and his case study could've been about any perpetually aggrieved trans woman cyclist :lol:

47th, in 2019 I published ten (10) pieces in high-profile media outlets. I placed articles in The New York Times, Newsweek, Newsweek, NBC News, VICE, DIVA Magazine, Chatelaine, Pinknews, OutSports, and Compete Network. All of these articles were published as an extension of my scholarly work on fairness and trans inclusion in sport, and on general issues of transphobia. And all of these were listed on my CV as part of the evaluation documents sent to Dr. Krasnoff for the 2019 evaluation.

48th, in his evaluation, Dr. Krasnoff makes no mention of these high-profile public articles. These would be more properly classed as “public philosophy.”
Here he argues that public articles are "public philosophy" (that is, service)

56th, I ask, if three peer-reviewed articles/chapters in respected outlets, ten op-ed popular media articles in outlets including The New York Times, NBC News, Newsweek, and VICE, two keynote addresses, three additional invited scholarly speaking engagements, and the dozens of popular media interviews I completed in 2019 is insufficient to acquire a rating of ‘Excellent’ in research, what are the standards?
... but here he says they're research!

Also, I found this on the CofC policy page:
Presumption of Satisfactory Performance

The Post-Tenure Review Committee operates on a presumption of satisfactory performance. That is, the burden of proof (clear and convincing evidence) or a superior performance lies with the candidate, and the burden of proof for an unsatisfactory performance, including with completion of a remediation plan, lies with the Department Chair (or department post-tenure review panel).
A faculty member who has received two or more unsatisfactory ratings in teaching (or, for a librarian, two or more unsatisfactory ratings in professional competence) over that six-year period will be deemed to have received an unsatisfactory rating for post-tenure review. Otherwise, the faculty member will receive a rating of “satisfactory.”
By my reading, it was impossible under the rules to give Rhys a worse rating than "satisfactory" as long as his teaching evals were OK.
 
Speaking of, why didn't Rhys tear into Lawford-Smith's recent and incredibly retarded op-ed "Trans men are men (but transwomen are not women)"? It is a buffet spread of logical fallacies.

"Sex should not have 'lived consequences'"
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dumb as a box of rocks

1) rhys proclaims they are 2nd wave
2) so i look up 2nd wave, basically says they are a bunch of old ladies. classic rock feminism.
3) but somehow, they are "appropriating the language of feminism"

scuse me dude, but according to what you just said, they invented the language of feminism.
you said they are 2nd wave, so like it or not, they have seniority, they got here long before you did.

therefore, YOU are the one who has "appropriated the language of feminism to gain a patina of respectability" as a Johnny-come-lately female impersonator.
2nd wave can't "appropriate" what they invented, by your own admission.

to deny they invented this language is epistemic violence, also according to you.
yes rhys i really do read yr boring articles (4 lulz) & learned that you very often contradict your own claims, like now.


what intrigues me = is rhys aware of these constant psycho reversals?
or are these deliberate attempts at 'smart philosophy professor tactics'?

& that borderline-hysterical autistic numbered list directed at Krasnoff is the greatest salt ever.
3 Stooges levels of belly laughs. :lit: nyuk nyuk nyuk.
THANX!
 
1) rhys proclaims they are 2nd wave
2) so i look up 2nd wave, basically says they are a bunch of old ladies. classic rock feminism.
3) but somehow, they are "appropriating the language of feminism"
Rhys doesn't know the RF part of the acronym TERF means "Radical Feminist", and the Radical Feminist is a Second-Wave archetype.

A common refrain in Second-Wave Feminism is that female oppression can be traced back to their biological being. Second-wavers may argue that society distorts the concept of the female body to justify their oppression, but in they still recognize biology as the irreducible root cause. Trans exclusion, hence, is completely compatible with Second-Wave.
 
Someone's narc injury is showing...

I do very much like how much Rhys harps on about being an expert on gaslighting. He certainly utilises it frequently, much more often than he writes about it.

And of course he not only somehow has disability considerations based on bullshit, but also has clearly worked out the bare minimum he has to do for his job. The fun thing being he failed at even doing that.

Worst of all for his school, is that they blasted his shittiness as a professor but still gave a final appraisal of 'satisfactory'. They're getting the worst of both worlds - a review that pays enough lip service to troon teflon to keep him employed, but with enough honest feedback as to inspire a massive tard rage and what seems to be lolsuits from an aggrieved narcissist.

You'd feel sorry for them if this isn't exactly what they were signing up for. We always knew Rhys would make them regret that decision, and if they think he was he'll to work with before we all know it's only going to get worse.

I can't wait.

If they're anticipating lawsuits, then the time to start putting stuff put in writing is now. The actual review will have a certain degree of legal protection, there's a formalised process and they're following it. In a way he's kind of fucking himself in the hyper aggressive way he's responding to it.

Look at it this way, he's going nuts over the appraisal, he's so outraged he's making flat out allegations against the university.

If he claims at a later date that there was some other incident (which nobody will have witnessed) where he was a victim of some horrific transphobic hate crime, but was too scared of retaliation to report it, the university can invite people to draw their own conclusions, as he seemingly had no problem making formal complaints over more trivial shit.


there are really only two negative service-related items he could be talking about here: blowing off the undergraduate research review (at a time when he was not on leave), or blowing off the department meetings that he specifically agreed were required when he got his "disability" accommodation.

It says a lot about him that he wouldn't make an effort to attend at least the department meetings, he's talking about throwing bricks at the police but he won't participate in the one process where he actually has some limited influence. Also those meetings will typically be dominated by activists, I'm surprised he doesn't want to join in, unless he's somehow managed to fall out with them.
 
It says a lot about him that he wouldn't make an effort to attend at least the department meetings, he's talking about throwing bricks at the police but he won't participate in the one process where he actually has some limited influence. Also those meetings will typically be dominated by activists, I'm surprised he doesn't want to join in, unless he's somehow managed to fall out with them.
He's not an activist, he's a social media malcontent. He avoids faculty meetings because he has no friends, can't relate to anyone, probably knows deep down that everyone hates him and it causes dysphoria.

This is minor league compared to yesterday's excitement but goddammit Chris Mosier's tard-caliber takes are so annoying. :mad:
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6. Instead of doing "service", his public appearances and interviews did the college a disservice. It also supports our speculation that his superiors ordered him to keep his Twitter private.

Not only that - but the professor specifically calls out that while Rhys is out there grabbing headlines/making waves, etc - that Rhys is doing it only for himself and his cycling career. Specifically that instead of using his cycling career to help his school - he's expressly using his school to help his cycling career and giving them nothing in return.

Rhys is trying to make himself a celebrity and calming it's "work" and his boss isn't buying it.
 
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