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)

[ScouseGobshite]

I wish that I thought you were correct...

Fuck I hope his tour spends time in the Bermuda Triangle

And see responses

Personally I’d just like them all to be locked in the Sex Tour bus, driven to a quiet spot near the Arctic Circle, well out of sight of all humankind, & then left there so they can all fuck each other into oblivion. That way, they get all the geezer-minge any self-loving transbian could possibly want, and meanwhile the rest of us are spared a national outbreak of spontaneous mass vomiting. Win-Win!

 

[JULAY]

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

His h and i10 indexes:

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

Rhys is the kind of "scholar" who you would cite and the rest of your field would be like, "Um, who is that again? I'm not familiar with their work." And then you have to sheepishly admit, "Yeah, 'she's' kind of a fringe researcher into a very narrow subdiscipline... I couldn't find a better citation to be honest."

And then the rest of your colleagues coach you on how to find more mainstream reasearchers to bolster your arguments.

As an aside, Troony McTroonface should be eternally grateful that he didn't go into history. The arguments in that field are fucking BRUTAL, and nobody is given a pass simply because of their identity politics, at least not 15 years ago when I was part of it.

I once saw a troon similar to Rhys reduced to tears because his dissertation's underlying thesis got obliterated by a straight white man who cited a very common piece of fact about persecution in Nazi Germany that was readily available to anyone who cared enough to do their research. As much as I'd like to see him cry, it's probably better for everyone that he picked the softest of the Humanities, i.e. Philosophy, where no substantiation of fact is necessary.

For anyone who's interested, go look at the Goldhagen vs. Browning debate about intentionalism vs. functionalism. Here's a handy link if anyone's interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism–intentionalism_debate

That's just one of many examples of History being downright nasty to those who can't hang. And since I know you're reading thism Rhys, why not try and throw your proverbial hat into the ring and teach some of those lazy historians what's what? Since you're a genius at everything and all...

 

[anionfarflung]

Fucking gross.
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So when this plague is over Rhys intends to start a new one.

 

[AnOminous]

This motherfucker deserves to live in shame but instead he's turning down invitations to testify before his state congress.

No he didn't. He lied about that. That is not how even a state legislature operates. You are given an opportunity well in advance to submit your written testimony as a document. Then they look at it and if it isn't a pure pile of crazy, the political party that invited you tells you when to show up. Then you deliver your written testimony and are asked questions by both parties.

Rhys is, as he usually is, a lying sack of shit.

If anything remotely like this happened, Rhys pussied out when he realized that Republicans (and maybe even unfriendly Democrats) would get the opportunity to ask him questions.

 

[kaien]

If anything remotely like this happened, Rhys pussied out when he realized that Republicans (and maybe even unfriendly Democrats) would get the opportunity to ask him questions.

For all that he likes to brag about the one time he went on TV and loomed over some unfortunate feminist, I don't think he wants at all to engage on the record in real time. Consider his remarks about scornfully turning down requests for comment from students and journalists -- they should just leave him alone and reverently quote his existing public pronouncements.

Despite his towering narcissism, I suspect that on some level he understands that he and his arguments just don't pass the eyeball test.

 

[JULAY]

No he didn't. He lied about that. That is not how even a state legislature operates. You are given an opportunity well in advance to submit your written testimony as a document. Then they look at it and if it isn't a pure pile of crazy, the political party that invited you tells you when to show up. Then you deliver your written testimony and are asked questions by both parties.

Rhys is, as he usually is, a lying sack of shit.

If anything remotely like this happened, Rhys pussied out when he realized that Republicans (and maybe even unfriendly Democrats) would get the opportunity to ask him questions.

What do you mean everyone isn't going to celebrate my victories over the transphobes?! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

 

[ScouseGobshite]

I found it, an ex-philosopher met him at a philosophy party once and the experience was unpleasant.

While looking for that, I stumbled across this based kiwi who raced against Rhys in case anyone missed it back then.

Thank you, I hadn’t read either of those before. Equal parts reassuring (that he really as much of a repulsive bullying turd in person as he comes off online) and depressing (to realise there are people irl who have no choice but to deal with him regularly (his students, neighbours, women in competitive cycling, random local baristas, etc).

I thought this, from further down that first link, was well worth reading as an assessment of his academic cred (spoiler: it’s shite).

 

[Cycleye]

For all that he likes to brag about the one time he went on TV and loomed over some unfortunate feminist, I don't think he wants at all to engage on the record in real time. Consider his remarks about scornfully turning down requests for comment from students and journalists -- they should just leave him alone and reverently quote his existing public pronouncements.

Despite his towering narcissism, I suspect that on some level he understands that he and his arguments just don't pass the eyeball test.

I think he knows full well that his arguments do not stand up. He will enter into his version of debate if it is safe i.e. on twatter, or on a tv prog where they dare not disagree, but otherwise no way would he debate if there is even the slightest chance of being shot down, in public. It is all calculated just like picking a sport where he can be the champ. It is typical of a narc, a bully and cheat.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Fucking gross.
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A hulking middle-aged fat man going from city to city, meeting up with other middle-aged fat men, autistically yelling “BEWBS” at each other. Each pretending the other is incredibly hot. Going back to the hotel room. Awkwardly muttering, “So, do we, uh...” before deciding that maybe tonight isn’t the night.

 

[DemonicMustache]

We pretty much determined it was the program director job here. He's saying "dream job" because he wants it, because no one wants him in his current position (including him). But the money would be less or the same, in a more expensive city, and he would be expected to actually work.

This is the perfect job for Rhys.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

Rhys is the kind of "scholar" who you would cite and the rest of your field would be like, "Um, who is that again? I'm not familiar with their work." And then you have to sheepishly admit, "Yeah, 'she's' kind of a fringe researcher into a very narrow subdiscipline... I couldn't find a better citation to be honest."

And then the rest of your colleagues coach you on how to find more mainstream reasearchers to bolster your arguments.

As an aside, Troony McTroonface should be eternally grateful that he didn't go into history. The arguments in that field are fucking BRUTAL, and nobody is given a pass simply because of their identity politics, at least not 15 years ago when I was part of it.

I once saw a troon similar to Rhys reduced to tears because his dissertation's underlying thesis got obliterated by a straight white man who cited a very common piece of fact about persecution in Nazi Germany that was readily available to anyone who cared enough to do their research. As much as I'd like to see him cry, it's probably better for everyone that he picked the softest of the Humanities, i.e. Philosophy, where no substantiation of fact is necessary.

For anyone who's interested, go look at the Goldhagen vs. Browning debate about intentionalism vs. functionalism. Here's a handy link if anyone's interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functionalism–intentionalism_debate

That's just one of many examples of History being downright nasty to those who can't hang. And since I know you're reading thism Rhys, why not try and throw your proverbial hat into the ring and teach some of those lazy historians what's what? Since you're a genius at everything and all...

I'm in the field now, and historians still have no chill. I've seen some arguments that would leave any feels-over-facts troon curled up and sobbing in a corner. Hell, I know one professor who got into a debate that wound up with the other guy writing an entire book specifically to talk shit about him and call him a Nazi. Rhys wouldn't last through a single history conference, especially once he started throwing his weight around and trying to assert that you don't need to know what you're talking about. He'd be instantly BTFO, and then the real historians would go back to bickering and drinking heavily.

 

[Patricia Highsmith]

This is the perfect job for Rhys.

This is the perfect job fo Rhys to miss out on. All jobs are. I hope he clings on to the CoC job like that bint on the door at the end of Titanic. And then gets squeezed out. Someone here eloquently painted a self employed trailer park handyman future for him and I look forward to his slow downward spiral.

 

[Coccxys]

I like to keep positing that peak trans is coming, that the people will rise up against the troonery. I have to in order to stay sane but there is a voice in the back of my head constantly chanting "final days of Rome", the civilisation was nice while it lasted but we're going to be that unlucky generation who gets to experience its crumbling into nothing. Or at least consider this: if you end up in a nursing home guess who's going to be your co-residents? That type don't have families to care for them so will be bulk of the population of those places.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

I like to keep positing that peak trans is coming, that the people will rise up against the troonery. I have to in order to stay sane but there is a voice in the back of my head constantly chanting "final days of Rome", the civilisation was nice while it lasted but we're going to be that unlucky generation who gets to experience its crumbling into nothing. Or at least consider this: if you end up in a nursing home guess who's going to be your co-residents? That type don't have families to care for them so will be bulk of the population of those places.

Can you imagine being some poor Filipina who comes here looking for a better life only to be forced to dildo-fuck geriatric trannies?

On the bright side, some based Angel of Death nurse could rack up quite the body count 41%ing all of them.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Hell, I know one professor who got into a debate that wound up with the other guy writing an entire book specifically to talk shit about him and call him a Nazi.

Can you name the book or would that be too much powerleveling? Sounds like good material for the "academic lolcows" thread.

 

[Positron]

You know what transphobia and the Royal Family have in common? They are both zeroth-World problems.


Kathleen Stock and "tradwives":





I'm not totally on board with what Stock writes: isn't the sales-pitch of Feminism "Patriarchy harms man too so Feminism benefits men"? But I guess it is better for feminists to stop pretending they care for anyone but themselves.
(The latest GC character assassination thread by that nutter Christa Peterson)

More Blighty problems (I don't mean Stock):


Christa Peterson is a logician too:

Most people do not need to "consider how to answer" this question; they automatically put down the sex in their birth certs.


That's why he argues so much in favor of Gettier Cases. Most (all?) epistemologists disagree.
If true statements by accident still counted as knowledge, schools would be teaching Astrology.

 

[papaya]

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

This is probably the juiciest thing I found: (link) (archive)
It itself is a repost of a since-deleted post by Dr. Brian Lieter(wiki link), who is some fancy pants U Chicago philosopher with a blog that looks like it was made in 1998.
Dr. Lieter and our boy Rhys had a pretty long back and forth which is replicated+ dissected in the blog post. Some choice quotes, though really the whole thing is funny:

The singularly unhinged Rachel McKinnon, for example, denounced both of us as “asshats” on social media[...]

Rachel McKinnon quickly intervened to assure the “Current Student”: “Don’t listen to Brian. His kind is aging and will be gone soon enough.” I’m 51, but it’s good to know Prof. McKinnon is wishing me and others of my “kind” dead.

Ngl, this Leiter seems to be a bit unhinged himself but still nowhere near the same galaxy of awful as Rhys.

Leiter DID leave up this blog post briefly referencing "philosophers behaving badly" : (link) (archive)
The entire text of which says:

Witness this tirade of abuse by philosopher Rachel McKinnon (Charleston) against a famous lesbian athlete.

(Thanks to Daniel Kaufman for the pointer.)

This post in turn leads to a blog post by Dr. Jane Clare Jones, TERF overlord and queen of sassy comebacks, dissecting Rhys' bad takes towards Navritilova (sp- famous tennis player): (link)(archive)

Again I don't know if philosophy grad students have a shitposting board and I couldn't find one quickly on google, but (UPDATE: I found it, so the stuff below will be spoilered as it's not really that interesting) here's everything I found from adjacent academic fields:

Spoiler: Gossip from related academic departments

The sociologists had a field day talking about an article about Rhys. No new information, just your typical "twaw" "lolno" discussion. I guess it's mildly interesting to see soc grad students not falling for this shit. (link) (archive)
He was brought up in a joke thread about trans and bathrooms (link) (archive)

Here's the only discussion I could find on the political science grad student rumor forum, pretty weak:
(link) (archive)

The Econ grad student rumors forum had a post, but it was deleted & I can't find it in wayback, google cache, or archive(below link is dead but you can google the URL to see evidence of its former existence):
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic...laim-that-men-are-better-than-women-at-sports

edit: wow , literally within 2 minutes of posting this I found the philo students rumor discussion page, there's a LOT on our boy here, currently archiving everything

edit 2: Okay, I've archived everything from the philo student shitposting site but that took fucking forever so I'm not ready to read through and collate this stuff. The links are below if anybody else is feeling ambitious:

Spoiler: Philosophy gossip & archive links in chronological order

June 2018 (archived)

July 2018 (archived)

September 2018 (archived)

December 2018 (archived)

September 2019 (archived)

December 2019 (archived)

May 2020 (archived)

This is just what came up when I searched for the keyword "McKinnon", so there may be more in other comment sections

 

[JY's Tampon]

This is probably the juiciest thing I found: (link) (archive)
It itself is a repost of a since-deleted post by Dr. Brian Lieter(wiki link), who is some fancy pants U Chicago philosopher with a blog that looks like it was made in 1998.
Dr. Lieter and our boy Rhys had a pretty long back and forth which is replicated+ dissected in the blog post. Some choice quotes, though really the whole thing is funny:


Ngl, this Leiter seems to be a bit unhinged himself but still nowhere near the same galaxy of awful as Rhys.

Leiter DID leave up this blog post briefly referencing "philosophers behaving badly" : (link) (archive)
The entire text of which says:

This post in turn leads to a blog post by Dr. Jane Clare Jones, TERF overlord and queen of sassy comebacks, dissecting Rhys' bad takes towards Navritilova (sp- famous tennis player): (link)(archive)

Again I don't know if philosophy grad students have a shitposting board and I couldn't find one quickly on google, but (UPDATE: I found it, so the stuff below will be spoilered as it's not really that interesting) here's everything I found from adjacent academic fields:

Spoiler: Gossip from related academic departments

The sociologists had a field day talking about an article about Rhys. No new information, just your typical "twaw" "lolno" discussion. I guess it's mildly interesting to see soc grad students not falling for this shit. (link) (archive)
He was brought up in a joke thread about trans and bathrooms (link) (archive)

Here's the only discussion I could find on the political science grad student rumor forum, pretty weak:
(link) (archive)

The Econ grad student rumors forum had a post, but it was deleted & I can't find it in wayback, google cache, or archive(below link is dead but you can google the URL to see evidence of its former existence):
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic...laim-that-men-are-better-than-women-at-sports

https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic...laim-that-men-are-better-than-women-at-sports

edit: wow , literally within 2 minutes of posting this I found the philo students rumor discussion page, there's a LOT on our boy here, currently archiving everything

Thank you for everything you do to your body. I’m sure as hell not going to read that shit.

 

[Next Task]

For all that he likes to brag about the one time he went on TV and loomed over some unfortunate feminist, I don't think he wants at all to engage on the record in real time.

Fun reminders: That was on Fox, where he could count it as a win whether he was demolished (evil TERFs conspiring to make me look bad!) or stayed calm (which is what happened, so he acted like he was Daniel in the lion's den and everyone cowered at his impressive argumentation). He also was next to Abigail Shrier, whose recent book about ROGD has been getting deplatformed like crazy, and Rhys took great pleasure in saying he chose to sit next to her as a physical intimidation tactic.

It is notable for 'I would be a great lawyer' Rhys that he has never, not once, entered into an actual discussion, debate or situation where he either can't control the narrative, or can count it as a win if he just shows up and gets to intimidate women in person. Like all troons he never bothers to argue his case, instead just stating his perspective as fact and ignoring/blocking you if you disagree. He's just taken an extra step of writing papers that do the exact same thing but that he can cite as an appeal to authority - that authority still being him.

Troons never want a debate. They want to say their truth and declare any dissent Nazi alt-right TERF bigotry. Rhys, for all his bluster, is exactly the same. His narcissism is just so high, even for a troon, that he thinks he is literally the final authority on the matter.

 

[Positron]

Brian Leiter has dossiers on Rhys's cronies Christa Peterson, Jonathan Ichikawa and especially Nathan Oseroff too.