The appropriate authorities have been contacted
DOCTOR Veronica Ivy Rachel McKinnon is being peak philosopher again.
Peak philosopher Ivy McKinnon is framing a disagreement about the ontology of the category “woman” as hate speech which must be reported to “the appropriate authorities” and flagged up to Michael Robinson’s sponsors, clearly in the hope that they will all drop Robinson instantly and with public opprobrium.
I can’t see the picture/text;it’s too small. What’s wrong with it?
I know, sorry – it won’t magnify via zooming, which is annoying. If you open the tweet though it’s just a little easier to read – this particular tweet; others that shared it were not.
I think shit like this is about the only silver lining I can find with Republicans controlling everything… they won’t let this sort of thing go on.
Off topic: I dunno what happened with the migration or whatever but I’m finding that as soon as I enter text into the comment box the Submit Comment button disappears (on Chrome for Android).
BKiSA, that often happens to me when commenting via my phone. Oddly, if I tilt my phone sideways (portrait to landscape) then back again, the button reappears.
I dealt with Twitter so the rest of you won’t have to:
First Letter, prompting the complaint: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMzyAhEXkAAO-Uo?format=png&name=medium
Second Letter, Ivy’s response: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMzyAhIXsAEOJWF?format=png&name=medium
The photo was simply Ivy being a creepy Facebook stalker to track down the guy who sent the letter.
Oh, thank you! A trick I don’t know.
God, Ivy’s letter. The preening sneering egotism and entitlement. Peak loathsome.
I vote we all copy Michael’s email and send it to Dr Ivy. Maybe we can keep him so busy trying to track us all down that he won’t have time to steal anymore womens’ medals.
mail.com is a great place to set up heaps of email addresses for this purpose, a VPN will hide your origins, and Reece can go fuck herself trying to persecute me.
Hopefully they’ll all ignore Dr. Ivy’s letter since she sent it to herself and BCCed the organizations.
The Facebook post included suggests Ivy went through all his stuff trying to find something offensive. In this case the big find is someone joking that foreigners are stealing high-paying mountain-racing jobs from Canadians. I’m guessing Michael Robinson is non-Canadian and and so is the “foreigner” in question. He jokes back that, yes, he does it “for the money and the girls”. The obvious implication is that there are neither. That still could be seen as somewhat offensive, depending on if you just see it as a parody of a rock-star attitude or not.
But, yeah, well done, Dr. Ivy in finding something from years ago that out of context looks racist and sexist—a textbook example of the excesses of cancel culture.
#3, #4
Before the migration, my name and email address would show up under Leave a comment, now they don’t. I have to enter them each time I reply.
@ Colin Day
Me too.
He is a bully. He likes to hurt people.
maddog1129, yes, it is almost as if he is an MRA or AlphaMale.
BTW, is it now “deadnaming” to refer to them* as Rachel?
* Using them as it would appear to be multiple persons inhabiting one body. :-)
Is that for real? Only “Dr. Veronica Ivy” is OK now?
It’s for real; who knows what’s ok now. The guy is a toxic narcissist, he’s toying with people.
Ophelia: Extracting the image from a Tweet is slightly annoying, but doable:
1: Open the twit’s Tweet.
2: Click on the Image you want within the Tweet. This will create that floating semi-enlarged version.
3: Right click on the image, you’ll get a menu. From that, click “View Image”. If you also hold Ctrl, it will open in a new Browser Tab.
4: Either way, you end up with just the image, and the URL in the browser bar can be Copy/Pasted to create the direct link.
And yes, Ivy’s letter is Trump-level narcissism. Even if I was still more sympathetic to the TRA position than I currently am, I would find that tone astoundingly repugnant.
Maybe Doctor Ivy will self-identify as having been born in America so he can run for President.
The first letter moved me a little. It seemed sincere. To me, Michael seemed genuinely confused about Ivy’s position and actions (while certainly disapproving of them). Of course, I doubtless carry some bias. I’ve written here before about how my gangliness as a youth (this was all back before the old king died) gave me certain advantages over competitors in martial arts for my weight and age class.
I felt my advantage was unfair and this was sometimes shockingly apparent. I was fighting people who looked to me like little kids who didn’t really stand a chance of getting close to me unless they were really skilled. Sometimes they were, but although I flatter myself that I was pretty good, I have no doubt that I owed a good part of my success to the particular angle I happened to bounce off when I hit puberty.
I had an advantage due to happenstance and I hated it. I wanted to be challenged on the basis of skill, training and discipline, not my Groot arms and legs. I asked to be placed in a higher age class (obviously that couldn’t happen). I felt that some of my victories were hollow. Some people resented me and I understood why. This glimmer of awareness, by the way, happened sometime between the ages of 13 and 15. How old is Ivy, again?
So to echo Michael I wonder what sort of victory Poison Ivy thinks she’s achieved. The fact that her advantage is different to mine can play (at least) two ways:
1. Ivy went through puberty as a male, with the physical advantages that conveys in sports such as cycling. Those advantages still stand regardless of current T-level or the rules of any particular cycling administrative body. Then she chose to compete against women, against whom she knew she’d have an advantage.
2. Ivy was always a woman but was forced to compete against men, against whom she sucked. That’s because she was a woman, regardless of her frame, lungs, musculature, biochemistry and access to training and resources. By this interpretation, she was discriminated against.
In the golden age of skepticism we used to play a game called “which is more likely?”
I have much to say on the relative sporting opportunities girls and boys get in the UK but I’ve already written to much for one angry post.
I’m trying to point out that Ivy isn’t competing in the same way that other people are competing. She’s in a fundamentally different business to women in the same sport.