Rachel McKinnon suspended from Twitter

Yep birds I agree, Twitter is foul and run by misogynists. I'll hang onto my account for a while longer but find myself coming over to read stuff here more and more. It right pissed me off when Venice, Miranda and the first GCriticals were all banned, then Meghan Murphy ffs. Just really really shit.

When combined with the vile crap from cyclepath and all the MAP/porn stuff just makes me wonder why I still use the skanky place. There are some most excellent GC resisters still on there but Twitter could do with sorting itself out big time.

They said that to Glinner? He should report for harassment

oh ffs they've just told Glinner to "eat shit." Do they actually want to be banned or are they just completely incapable of containing the narc rage?

Attached image from KF re Rachel's thoughts on pap smears.

*Though I still think for sheer unadulterated nastiness, the worst of RMK's tweets was "Is the penis doing the smear? Then STFU, transphobe."

Yup, absolutely vile, and yet do the BBC ask them about such tweets? No. No they do not. How can someone writing tweets like that honestly think they have a clue what it is to be a woman?

• I knew then ( fat fingers)

I’m one of the six remaining people on Twitter not blocked by RM.
she had tweeted a week or so ago about getting tenure at the university, has knew then things would ramp up as she’s pretty safe there now

Yes, yes, I know McKinnon was a magnificent performer to highlight the horrendous nature of transactivism, but I'd really rather see consequences for appalling bad behaviour than have to keep saying to people "Look, this is what we're up against"

In an ideal world, me too, but I have lost all hope of that with twitter.

Despite my tongue in cheek pp, I'm not minimising what an unpleasant character she is. I just want to win this thing, I want my kids to see fantastic sports women when they are older, and I think McKinnon is a really effective advocate for that cause.

Given the nature of her previous academic writing, I'm not totally convinced that McKinnon isn't a spoof. I can't really see a difference between her output and Titania McGrath.

It's good to see McKinnon back on twitter. Especially because, with such a light rap on the knuckles, they're taking it as a green light to continue spewing hatred towards women.

I just cannot believe that this person works in a university. It is almost impossible to get an academic job these days and yet this person does? Just how?

Though I still think for sheer unadulterated nastiness, the worst of RMK's tweets was "Is the penis doing the smear? Then STFU, transphobe."

Bitch, etc., we've heard it all before. Even the fire stuff - ghastly as MK's language is, I don't think MK would actually do this MK's-self. But to deliberately target women undergoing an unpleasant medical procedure who just want to maintain a modicum of dignity, privacy and control over what happens to their own body - and do so advocating for a cause which erodes these boundaries in such a way that it's a very real possibility that in future women will have the stark choice of AGP health care professionals versus refusing vital medical tests... That's just evil.

I am so pleased that Rachel can now get back to that very important job of peak transing the planet.

Alas I cannot witness it as I am blocked, along with about 75000 others.

Cheers

It's going to be people like McKinnon that will open the eyes of everyone.

Her and Hayden and the other TRA will peaktrans entire countries eventually.

That will secure women's rights and see women's sports safe etc.

I just hope that people with dysphoria don't get tarred with the activists brush and have their lives made harder because of the very people who are calling themselves spokespeople.

Well, the narc rage and sense of wounded entitlement should give rise to a spectacularly misogynistic meltdown, all of which will be kicking around the internet for ever.

And every time the BBC/ Graun/ whoever carry fawning interviews with RMK, there will be the evidence for people to phone in/ tweet saying "You really want to book this person on your show? Really? They are the best representative of reasonable argument for this side you could find?"

Let them show themselves in their true light.

We all know which group of people Rachel means by "bitches".

Fuck sake!

That's not how Twitter works. When you get suspended temporarily your account is open for people to view, you just can't post on it. So McKinnon was permabanned, but clearly someone has reversed that decision.

Wow, three and a half hours that was! Rachel is back and tweeting away furiously... Um.... Yay......

Their unhinged ranting since coming back will not look great for anyone having a check before booking them for radio, tv or sponsoring... they’ve got a serious rage problem.

Interesting statement from RM 'Twitter saying that I'm engaging in 'hate speech' (against whom? 'transphobes' aren't a protected class)'

Seems calculated to me.

How come they're back? :-/

Do you think this means that McK has been very apologetic and grovelly behind the scenes?

Didn't last long did it?

@spokk newspapers reported that Ian Huntley identified as a woman now. I refused (as many people on twitter did) to call him a woman. TRAs reported me for misgendering him because I was being mean to the child killer. Hence me twitter suspension. You cannot make this shit up sometimes. They would defend Ian Huntley of all people over a women’s right to define their own sex.

Back for how long I wonder.

That’s ok. Megan Murphy was suspended a few times before there was a permanent ban. Won’t take the misogynist long to do something like that again. The suspension is still a good thing. We now have those tweets to email away....