Higher education
“Rachel” McKinnon aka Veronica Ivy is working his final weeks at the College of Charleston and still finding time to abuse a student on Twitter. It’s almost as if he’s just not a very nice man.
Selina Soule was of course not suing to ban trans women from sport, she was suing to keep males from competing in women’s sport.
But also, this is a man in his late 30s, a professor, holding a first year student up to ridicule on Twitter, and lying about her in the process.
I guess Rhys McKinnon wants bullying a teenage girl on Twitter to be his legacy at 39. Yikes.
Yes definitely the fact that he never taught her himself personally in person in the flesh makes it fine for him to abuse her on Twitter. Totally fine. He has no kind of privilege or advantage over her whatsoever – not his job, not his sex, not his 20 more years, not his notoriety, not those massive shoulders, nothing.
Also, eat shit.
Apparently CNN thinks he’s just the guy they want to have a nice chat with.
If Ivy was a fellow student of the same age as Selina this would still be bullying. As it is, it’s unconscionable.
Play nice, McKinnon! If you’re mean like this, then billions of cis girls are going to commit suicide!
College of Charlston should stand up for their student. Bullying her has to be a violation of whatever agreement Biker Troon has with them. Just fire him now, before the semester ends, for cause.
But….But….you are all right wing trolls! Trans women are always the victims here.
How is anybody on the trans side with half a brain thinking letting Baby Huey McKinnon on CNN to bray insults at a young woman is a good idea? He comes off as a complete creep (which he is). CofC must be thanking their stars that the decision for getting Baby Huey out of the workforce came before a TV interview that is almost guaranteed to be an epic train wreck.
That tweet about not going on CNN… he’s going to refute the explanations for why the anti-trans lawsuit is baseless? So it’s not baseless then? Can’t he even keep track of his own sentence?
But…but…why should he do the work of understanding his writing for you? It isn’t his job to explain what he says to you. You TERF!
I consider myself a MERF – a male exclusive radical feminist. I plan to remain so until they pry my keyboard out of my cold dead fingers.
First he claims that it was him who pulled out of the CNN interview, then announces that he’s doing it after all, though obviously from the phrasing he’s doing so reluctantly. Is he trying to imply that CNN are so desperate to have him that they begged him to change his mind? Just how over-inflated is this lying, bullying, cheating sack of shit’s ego?
Oh, and one has to marvel at the intellect of a man who cannot seem to fathom why a conference can allow a speaker a lot more time for a keynote speech than a television news channel can allot for an interview with a relative nobody.
Re the “you didn’t suffer any harm because you didn’t lose a scholarship to a ‘trans girl'” argument, expressed by McKinnon and by others I’ve read:
I understand there are questions of standing in these kinds of lawsuits. However, the suit is about potential harm. Soule and the others are seeking to change the rules so no girl misses out due to TIM participation, not seeking a remedy because they missed out. The litigants are trying to help other people. Is that so difficult to understand?
It strikes me as similar to the criticisms of JKR and others, established people who have platforms from which they can and do denounce no-platforming. Those writers are also trying to help others; they aren’t necessarily complaining about treatment they’ve received.
This is just a rancid and vindictive bully released from restraint. And there is no need for any restraint due to the baffling notion that any behaviour is excusable if it is for a good cause. Set aside that there is doubt as to whether this is even a good cause – imagine this behaviour coming from a prominent figure in some other worthy political tussle. Abortion access, euthanasia access, gay and lesbian marriage, asylum seeker advocacy… such behaviour is not seen from those quarters.
The difference? Those causes are about caring for people. TRAs, by their behaviour at least, are more about indulging their own narcissism.
To quote Judge Rinder: “Quelle surprise. That’s French for ‘What a liar you are.'”