This is all metaphor, no really
Meanwhile, ratcheting continues.
https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon/status/1112697781997707267
That’s the new Twitter header.
Does anyone else do that? Say something and sign it Dr. Important Person (2019)? I don’t think I’ve seen one like that before. And then using it to frame violent imagery of flames and a brick, muscled arms and threatening scowl, all of it directed at women…this ain’t social justice.
https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon/status/1112709409397006336
https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon/status/1112712794867228674
https://twitter.com/rachelvmckinnon/status/1112728237849919489
Note how I put my fist right up in front of your face but didn’t actually touch it.
Furthermore, “throw bricks at transphobia” is meaningless. There is no thing, transphobia, to throw bricks at. You could throw bricks at cars, or through windows, but not at “transphobia.” McKinnon is getting his jollies here by continuing his threats against women while repeating his “I’m not hitting you” taunts.
I wonder how future competitors are going to feel about racing against him. I wouldn’t ever want to be anywhere near him.
Radcliffe clearly said that there were hundreds of trans people who want to take part in sport. I daresay that’s a dramatic underestimate but McKinnon’s mischaracterisation of that is so breathtakingly – yet typically – dishonest that it makes my heart hurt to read it.
Olympic rules were changed to allow trans people with a single year of lowered testosterone in 2016 iirc. Other national and international rules changes are similarly recent. There has not been time for trans women to enter even a single olympic event in that time.
And McKinnon claims to be a philosopher.
Quotes on females. We are not a real category anymore, apparently.
Hey, McKinnon, you’re a philosopher. Female is a biological term. I am a biologist. We use that term for those who have certain reproductive capacities, no matter the species. I frequently study ‘female’ flowers; no one puts that in scare quotes. No one, not even PZ Myers, questions the femaleness of an organism other than humans that bears young (unless they are seahorses, maybe, and even then the female lays the eggs and carries them part of the time). So why in humans must we deny the reality of female? Why must we question the ability of females to bear young (though I will acknowledge that some natal women are not able to bear young, the theoretical ability is there in their physiological structures)? Why must we insist on the ability of males to bear young, even though we don’t equate that to maleness in any other species?
What if a male eastern red cedar felt like a female eastern red cedar? Would that change our estimation of the sex of this tree? No…and the concept of a tree “feeling like” anything is meaningless, so I would be laughed out of science if I suggested such a thing. But humans can feel, and they can interpret those feelings in many ways, and sometimes they interpret those feelings in a way that is not rational and that defies all reality. There are only two cases I can think of where we are commanded to accept another’s reality as a true definition – religion and trans.
I’m becoming convinced that Kate here would really benefit from a boot up his arse. Barely disguised threats against women is not gentlemanly, let alone ladylike.
Kate is a different McKinnon!
Oh yeah, ouch… and I personally love Kate McKinnon’s work.
iknklast, but hyenas!!!
Is that a grease fire McKinnon behind McKinnon? Just by posing in such a way, he is seriously taking the piss, although the hypocritical bastard would surely claim that all fires and bricks are metaphorical.
AoS, of course, I forgot hyenas. Well, that proves it, then. Clownfish and hyenas, so men must be able to be women. I am so owned.
Is that blue-pink-white thing a brick? Because if it is is, it’s either a specially made dainty little lady-brick, or McKinnon has got massive hands. Most unladylike..
Catwhisperer, a normal house-brick looks about the same size in my hands, but I am a 6ft. man with hands like coal shovels.
AoS: Haha well, precisely. I’m not saying someone who can hold a brick like that and have their fingers reach all the way to the front edge of the brick has freakishly large hands. But it does suggest they are a man. I’m no pixie and I went outside to check – a brick just does not fit in my hand that way.
I too am in the category where house bricks look like lego bricks in my hand.
But more importantly, that is terrible photoshop work. It makes McKinnon’s arm look about eleven feet long.
I also take issue with the idea that the phrase ‘to throw a brick’ is “more often” metaphorical than literal. I’m fairly sure I’ve never in my life seen or heard it used metaphorically. And I’ve lost track of whether we’re supposed to metaphorically throw bricks or throw metaphorical bricks. It seems to me as though they should be different things, but unlike McKinnon I’m not a philosopher.
Of course, I was brought up in the North East of England in the 70s, where literally throwing bricks at stuff was more or less the only thing there was to do.
Some things never change.
@AoS:
Yeah, that “grease fire” business.
I know from the internet that “grease fire” is supposed to mean “about the most horrible death someone could possibly have”.
I know from when I worked for the Fire Brigade that it is probably true, especially if someone tries to put out the grease fire with water.
For when dying in an ordinary fire just isn’t painful and horrible and lingering enough, that is the fate reserved for people (especially women) who disagree with some points of a wildly fluctuating dogma, if that isn’t a contradiction (and it doesn’t seem to be in this case).