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)

[Tragi-Chan]

"As a philosopher of language"

Look Rhys, we all know you're too insecure to post an opinion without incorrectly citing yourself as the authority but you must know how much these constant claims of being an expert hurt your credibility across the board. You are not a world authority on every topic and you don't get the final word in every discussion.

I would hate to be one of Rhys' students, no matter how well argues and cited your work is if Rhys doesn't like it he'll proclaim himself the expert in the field and dismiss all those cited works as having being debunked by himself. Nothing worse than a "teacher" of anything who believes their own word absolutely with no nuance.

Hitchens's razor basically demolishes everything Rhys ever says and it comes right from his own niche in which he had his PhD.

I bet he does it for everything. “As a philosopher of food, this pizza was late.”

 

[Next Task]

I would hate to be one of Rhys' students, no matter how well argues and cited your work is if Rhys doesn't like it he'll proclaim himself the expert in the field and dismiss all those cited works as having being debunked by himself. Nothing worse than a "teacher" of anything who believes their own word absolutely with no nuance.

It would indeed suck if you wanted to learn anything. I imagine it would be extremely easy to get a good grade in his class, though, because he's so obvious about what he wants to hear. Incredibly easy to tailor a paper for such an obvious narcissist, especially since he's likely too lazy to properly read them and instead would use marking software and/or Ctrl-F his name to make sure he's been cited. The same for exams, except I believe he's even talked about using multiple choice exams, in a philosophy class, before.

He seems the sort to think it's a good thing that his students are all getting top marks without realising the only thing he's taught them is how to write to the professor, not to the subject at hand. That, plus attempting to indoctrinate is much easier than attempting to teach.

 

[Kosher Dill]

The same for exams, except I believe he's even talked about using multiple choice exams, in a philosophy class, before.

Multiple choice exams are for pikers, I give true/false exams.

Synthetic judgements can be made a priori. T __ F __

Abstract objects exist.                    T __ F __

P=NP.                                      T __ F __

Rachel McKinnon was ROBBED by the trans-
phobic referees and God Damned Women in
that famous race, when by all rights she
should have been awarded the gold and
those BITCHES should have been marched
out in shackles!!!!!                       T__

 

[gaystoner]

Rhys is really gettin' the ol' noggin jogger this morning.
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Spoiler: sort of unrelated

imagine this kid giving the talk about the n word and other 'unforgiveable slurs'

Stay away from the children Grandpa

 

[Positron]

Rhys squeezes his bulk into another conversation in order to advertise his extra-Nutty masterpiece again:

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Spoiler: sort of unrelated

imagine this kid giving the talk about the n word and other 'unforgiveable slurs'

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Stay away from the children Grandpa

Conversely, if a child still believes in Santa and the tooth fairy, they obviously don’t have enough understanding of reality to understand the implications of trooning out.

 

[Coccxys]

Rhys squeezes his bulk into another conversation in order to advertise his extra-Nutty masterpiece again:
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Does Rhys not realise that shit comes off awfully?

> I think we, as a group, struggle with this.
> Yeah, I can definitely struggle with it.
> I agree, look at that person over there who totally can't do it.

No Rhys, this was an opportunity to demonstrate some introspection and admit a weakness, not your time to accuse someone else and promote yourself. Get some god damn humility you egotist.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Does Rhys not realise that shit comes off awfully?

> I think we, as a group, struggle with this.
> Yeah, I can definitely struggle with it.
> I agree, look at that person over there who totally can't do it.

No Rhys, this was an opportunity to demonstrate some introspection and admit a weakness, not your time to accuse someone else and promote yourself. Get some god damn humility you egotist.

I’d be interested to know how the wider philosophical community views him.

 

[Old Fart]

It would indeed suck if you wanted to learn anything. I imagine it would be extremely easy to get a good grade in his class, though, because he's so obvious about what he wants to hear. Incredibly easy to tailor a paper for such an obvious narcissist, especially since he's likely too lazy to properly read them and instead would use marking software and/or Ctrl-F his name to make sure he's been cited. The same for exams, except I believe he's even talked about using multiple choice exams, in a philosophy class, before.

He seems the sort to think it's a good thing that his students are all getting top marks without realising the only thing he's taught them is how to write to the professor, not to the subject at hand. That, plus attempting to indoctrinate is much easier than attempting to teach.

I don't think I've seen him propagate the "no grading at all!"-stance that's become popular under students at America's universities now. That would fit him in a... high grade.

 

[Coccxys]

I’d be interested to know how the wider philosophical community views him.

Somewhere between embarrassment and nonentity. You have them in every field where they think they're the expert in a niche area (without realising that's because it's an irrelevant niche only they're bothered about) so that means they're an expert in your area. They tend to be avoided and then when they inevitably need something from the community opine that no one is helping them like they are always helping everyone else then they fuck off into obscurity.

What Rhys and co call toxic academia is actually the result of each specialist area being small and everyone knowing everyone else. If you burn those bridges or just outright refuse to network expect to be on the fringes and unable to succeed. It's Rhys and co being held to account for being unable to be civil and work with others.

 

[Clem Fandango]

I’d be interested to know how the wider philosophical community views him.

I don't think the philosophical community really views him at all. He tries to puff himself up as being an expert, having "lived experience" of his troon topics, etc. But at the end of the day what is he? He's just a professor in some fairly minor university.

Sure he's had some media appearances, and for a time he had clearly managed to get himself on the rolodex of a few media people's "call this guy if you need a sports troon on your panel", but at his point we're talking years ago? When was the last time he was on TV? He's certainly not a "household name", as he's claimed in the past.

Edit:

Out of curiosity I just looked up the CofC Wikipedia page. Lol, Rhys doesn't make the list of notable people, and they even have a faculty section.

 

[Mealy Mouth Spittle]

I don't think the philosophical community really views him at all. He tries to puff himself up as being an expert, having "lived experience" of his troon topics, etc. But at the end of the day what is he? He's just a professor in some fairly minor university.

Sure he's had some media appearances, and for a time he had clearly managed to get himself on the rolodex of a few media people's "call this guy if you need a sports troon on your panel", but at his point we're talking years ago? When was the last time he was on TV? He's certainly not a "household name", as he's claimed in the past.

Edit:

Out of curiosity I just looked up the CofC Wikipedia page. Lol, Rhys doesn't make the list of notable people, and they even have a faculty section.

Oh, he's going to change that once he reads he thread.

Spoiler: sort of unrelated

imagine this kid giving the talk about the n word and other 'unforgiveable slurs'

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Stay away from the children Grandpa

Imagine claiming that kids are so dumb that they fall for the tooth fairy, Santa, and the Easter bunny but they are totally smart, independent little humans who have a grasp on the difference between gender roles and actual biological sex. Troon logic is actually less advanced than a 3 year old's.

What stingy bastard only gives 10 cents a tooth? You're dating yourself grandpa. Nobody has paid that since at least the 1950s. And, lol, at him using the word "improbable" to describe the existence of Santa. Does he think there is a chance he could be real?

 

[Chapstick4Lyfe]

Does Rhys not realise that shit comes off awfully?

> I think we, as a group, struggle with this.
> Yeah, I can definitely struggle with it.
> I agree, look at that person over there who totally can't do it.

No Rhys, this was an opportunity to demonstrate some introspection and admit a weakness, not your time to accuse someone else and promote yourself. Get some god damn humility you egotist.

He kind of proved them right, Rhys missed the point in less than 140 characters. Could you imagine him struggling with a paper.

I’d be interested to know how the wider philosophical community views him.

Didn't we have someone come to the farms a few months ago that knew him professionally? If I'm right and remembering correctly, I believe they said people kind of avoid him. I'll try to dig it up.

 

[AnOminous]

Stay away from the children Grandpa

Good lord, so this is what a troon smirk/autogynesmile looks like in the rare case one of these freaks ends up geriatric.

I’d be interested to know how the wider philosophical community views him.

If his citations by other people are any hint, they don't. At all. This dude is not exactly Zizek. He's just some diversity hire at a shitty fourth tier toilet college.

 

[Coccxys]

Let's have a look how impactful Rhys actually is in his field since it has come up.

His h and i10 indexes:



The i10 index is the number of papers with at least 10 citations. The h index is explained below:



Now these can be college dependant because some research groups are just more active than others so let's compare to "peers" at CoC:



So both are more prolific in their field that Rhys is.

OK, but these are also field dependant because some fields just don't have as much interest as others. So let's look at some "peers" in the area he originally qualified in, Epistemology:



Ok, that guy is the world leader in the field but that's a good indication of how high those numbers can go. Let's be fair to Rhys though and pick associate professors like Rhys is supposed to be. These are people at about the same career level as Rhys.





Hmm, they're all doing better than Rhys in the field. But hey maybe he'll beat a non-professor track researcher.



Oh. He's not stacking up well against peers here. Erm let's look at his pet studies "trans* studies":



Oh dear Rhys, this cis woman is destroying you (even worse she's from terf Island), better get cancelling and crying more about lived experiences. At least he beats a ciswhite male, not by much but still it's something.



So in summary Rhys is just about postdoctoral (the job you take after you complete your PhD to gain enough experience to land a tenure track professorial position) levels of productive in his own field and is even losing to the cis people in his small pond.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

Am I correct in thinking that his faculty page has not been updated since 2015? Except, of course, for his new name?

https://philosophy.cofc.edu/faculty-staff-listing/ivy-veronica.php#Veronica%20Ivy

https://archive.md/wip/tJrj6

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Also, one of the responses to one of his papers was basically a bunch of other, better, philosophers running a train on him. Note well that this was co-authored by seven women from three continents and six schools, including Oxford. I can't read the whole thing but the abstract is fun.

In her recent paper ‘The Epistemology of Propaganda’ Rachel McKinnon discusses what she refers to as ‘TERF propaganda’. We take issue with three points in her paper. The first is her rejection of the claim that ‘TERF’ is a misogynistic slur. The second is the examples she presents as commitments of so-called ‘TERFs’, in order to establish that radical (and gender critical) feminists rely on a flawed ideology. The third is her claim that standpoint epistemology can be used to establish that such feminists are wrong to worry about a threat of male violence in relation to trans women. In Section 1 we argue that ‘TERF’ is not a merely descriptive term; that to the extent that McKinnon offers considerations in support of the claim that ‘TERF’ is not a slur, these considerations fail; and that ‘TERF’ is a slur according to several prominent accounts in the contemporary literature. In Section 2, we argue that McKinnon misrepresents the position of gender critical feminists, and in doing so fails to establish the claim that the ideology behind these positions is flawed. In Section 3 we argue that McKinnon’s criticism of Stanley fails, and one implication of this is that those she characterizes as ‘positively privileged’ cannot rely on the standpoint-relative knowledge of those she characterizes as ‘negatively privileged’. We also emphasize in this section McKinnon’s failure to understand and account for multiple axes of oppression, of which the cis/trans axis is only one.

https://philpapers.org/rec/ALLOAA-3

https://archive.md/wip/dsixT

 

[Coccxys]

Also, one of the responses to one of his papers was basically a bunch of other, better, philosophers running a train on him. Note well that this was co-authored by seven women from three continents and six schools, including Oxford. I can't read the whole thing but the abstract is fun.

One of the co-authers has a website that gathers women's experiences of troons in women's spaces and published the data. Could be a rich source of material for the forum in general, it's here.

 

[AnOminous]

Also, one of the responses to one of his papers was basically a bunch of other, better, philosophers running a train on him. Note well that this was co-authored by seven women from three continents and six schools, including Oxford. I can't read the whole thing but the abstract is fun.

It sounds like they're shredding this man's troon armor and finally, from an academic perspective, pointing out the utter deficiency in his incredibly inferior scholarship.

 

[artilleryfroth]

One of the co-authers has a website that gathers women's experiences of troons in women's spaces and published the data. Could be a rich source of material for the forum in general, it's here.

That’s Dr Holly Lawford-Smith (sp?) from
Uni of Melb. She’s being villified and hunted for asking women to send her details of any bad experiences they’ve had with men in female places. The wokies are trying to get her fired for allowing women to send her their stories. Her submission site has been compromised at least twice.

How delusional would a person need to be, to think they are “one of the goodies“ to try to silence women telling a woman a harm that a man did to them?

 

[Coccxys]

Interestingly a lot of the stories on that website relate to males invading women's sports. Including a guy who won't stop popping boners in his leggings during women's yoga classes.