Not delusional but calculated
The conceit rises off him like steam.
Not a professor, not an athlete but a cheat, not world famous, barely mentioned by right wing media. Other than that, sure, bub, whatever you say.
Do psychiatrists in fact google patients during a session? Does that ring true? I think not.
They do if the patient threatens to scweam and scweam and scweam if they don’t.
Okay, I was about to say no, but I think Sastra may have hit it on the head. And there might have been other reasons the therapist was saying holy shit. Maybe saw the picture of Rhys Rachel Veronica Ivy McKinnon standing next to the women he beat out for a medal in bicycling, a sport where physical strength is a plus. Maybe he thought holy shit, this is one delusional asshole.
It has also been my experience (and I have a lot of experience with this) that psychiatrists tend not to regard you as delusional for representing yourself as a professor or an athlete. World famous, maybe. But for the most part, they tend to take you at your word as to what your career and hobbies are unless there is a reason to do otherwise. What reason did Ivykinnon give him for thinking otherwise?
Not a professor? I sure hope you’re right (according to Wikipeidia, his PhD “dissertation” is literally called Why You Don’t Need to Know What You’re Talking About). Is the claim in this article that he has had tenure at the College at Charleston since 2014 (which is cited in Wikipedia) simply made up?
Not a full professor.
True, but he’s in the US, where (as opposed to every other country where I’ve been) such distinctions don’t mean much besides salary difference, and even adjuncts without PhDs get called “professor”.
Sorry, was that mansplaining? Hard habit to break.
It’s not accurate, at least not among the academics I know. Students calling you professor is one thing, but you calling yourself that when you’re not is quite another.
He did school Martin Navratalova. Just ask his Glitter Rainbow Family.
Interesting. Your experience has been different from mine. (I believe you; just that my experience has been different.) In Europe and Israel, absolutely, my experience has been that one can’t call oneself “professor” without being a full professor; in America, you’re the first person I’ve met who cares.
This is certainly very true in my field (computer science) here in the USA: academics here go to great pains to qualify “professor”, e.g. they will say “I’m an associate professor at ” rather than “I’m a professor at “. That difference is far more than just a salary distinction, and the academics involved are quite jealous of where they and others reside on the ladder. My friend Matt, currently a major general in the US army but just a mere lieutenant in the reserves when we were both in graduate school, once remarked to me that “these academics seem to care about priority even more than military obsessing about job grades”.
Really? I never heard that in 25 years of college, multiple colleges, multiple professors, assistant professors, adjuncts, etc. In fact, I was taught if they don’t have a Ph.D., call them professor, not doctor. Though most of my non-PhD profs tended to go by Mr or Ms rather than Professor, but no one ever distinguished between them throughout my education. You could look them up and find out which they were, but most people didn’t care. As long as they were qualified to teach, we didn’t worry about their exact title.
Maybe it varies from region to region.
Perhaps; it certainly varies by field even in my region. There were instructors with only masters degrees in the arts who were regularly listed as “professor” in official literature at my last university, and that definitely wouldn’t fly in engineering even at the same university.
There are people with legitimate Full Professor titles who do not hold doctorates. They are quite rare, but they exist. I knew one in an engineering field, and I believe they may be more common in fields like music or writing, where established professionals without academic backgrounds join the academy later in their careers.
It’s possible a distinction can be made between “is a professor” and “is referred to as Professor Lastname”. I don’t think I’ve encountered a situation where an assistant professor was called “Assistant Professor Lastname”.
In normal circumstances, I wouldn’t quibble about anyone with the word “professor” in their title saying they’re a “college professor” or some such. I wouldn’t want to give the Cyclepath any such allowance, though.
Oh I wouldn’t either – shades of that whole Dr Jill Biden thing. But when it’s McKinnon bragging…the rules change.
According to an article on Graham Linehan’s Substack website, the university employing McKinnon is in the process of removing him, although it doesn’t give other details.
Also, McKinnon’s live-in partner was arrested in January for attempting to solicit a minor. This is, of course, the same McKinnon who has made videos advising vulnerable trans children to reach out for help, and specifically to reach out to McKinnon for help in finding them a ‘glitter family’ or ‘queer family’. Make of that what you will, but my Spidey senses are tingling!
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/another-central-outlier-rachel-mckinnon
The psychiatrist missed the real delusion.
Which of Ivy’s many names did the psychiatrist type into the search engine? That alone must have taken up the rest of the session.
Just to add even more confusion, professorships are different again in the UK where (usually) a professor is the holder of a particular chair. That is, there are only so many professorships to go around and professor is not a rank gained only through seniority.
This being academia, though, that’s not always true and the rules are blurry. A university can create a ‘personal chair’ for a senior academic so they can promote them to professor just for the hell of it. I’ve also seen titles such as ‘associate professor’ appearing lately. I’m no longer an academic but I’m still cynical and I suspect more titles like that will appear to lure younger academics to work harder for less pay.
Yes, but an MFA is considered a terminal degree. I know, I was surprised when I heard it, too. I received an MFA many years after my Ph.D. in science, but didn’t realize that the arts consider the MFA to be essentially the equivalent of a Ph.D. It certainly was not equivalent in the work and time required; it was the equivalent of a master’s degree, as it should be, but not a doctorate.
I have never had a class in the arts under anyone with more than an MFA. Once I heard it is considered a terminal degree, I understood why.