Meanwhile though that talk McKinnon was scheduled to give has been cancelled (or, tactfully, “rescheduled”) because no one was interested. It has already been scrubbed from the How To Academy and Eventbrite pages.
P.S. I’ve seen an e-mail saying that ticket numbers for McKinnon’s talk were “embarrassingly low” and that How To: Academy has actually received more objections to McKinnon’s talk than tickets sold. On that basis, it has been CANCELLED.
To pre-empt McKinnon’s lies that TRANSPHOBES were SOLELY responsible for cancelling his talk, I attach an e-mail from.the director of How To: Academy which explains that ticket sales were so low it was EMBARRASSING TO RUN THE EVENT.
I wonder if the talk on Fairness in Sport failed to resonate with his audience because it’s hard to think of anyone less qualified to talk about fairness in sport than a man who calls himself a woman and competes in women’s races.
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10 responses to “Indefinitely postponed”
This is glorious.
Hey Ophelia, I wanted to invite you to Spinster. I hope you don’t consider this spam, but we have been sharing some of your blog posts and I wondered if you had an account. Then I wondered if you were waiting to be invited!
I’ve been lurking here on your blog off and on for years, but never commented. I hope you, and anyone else reading this comment, will join us.
Perhaps the mass peak-trans is starting.
Maria Maclachlan, rapidly becoming one of my favorite people, fessed up to doing that glorious (and temporary) edit to RM’s Wikipedia page. The story is on her blog.
https://www.peaktrans.org/improving-rachel-mckinnons-wikipedia-page/
That Wiki edit is delightful.
Hey MandyJane, thank you, I’m already on it, @Flutterby. I haven’t been active because I dunno it always takes me forever to find my way around.
MandyJane @ #2 – your avatar….my gosh….Candy Angel from Radiskull!!! squee!! If anyone has some *boiling hot* coffee, that is just the way I like it.
I apologize, it is just that I used to look forward to new episodes of Radiskull when they were so new and fresh, you know, like, seven months ago.
Maybe they could get Martin Shkreli to give a talk about compassionate pricing of pharmaceuticals instead.
McKinnon, being a vile person, looks forward to and celebrates the death of people. That’s vile in my view even if the person in question is awful (which Magdalen is not). My version of that is to look forward to and celebrate the death of McKinnon’s influence. The sooner he is discredited and no longer considered anything other than a laughing stock – “remember when we actually listened to McKinnon? What were we smoking!” sort of thing – the better for the world.
And I will never stop being amazed that he is a lecturer on the subject of ethics.
clamboy @ #7 you will be happy to know that Joe Sparks has a youtube channel, and is planning a new episode! He posted a teaser about a month ago.
Thanks for letting me know your Spinster handle, Ophelia. I’m following you now.