Sally Hines getting her a**e handed to her on twitter.

Sally just seems to get nice fat wads of funding for her batshit research on 'gender'

God, though, it's criminal the backlash Rosa and Kathleen et al get - threats of violence, people trying to lose them their positions, people telling the world that their words, their academic work is literal violence that makes people unsafe - and didn't someone piss on one of their office doors?

Sally, afaik, gets no such threats - just women talking back to her, and obviously, laughing at her. But what else can we do, but laugh at such delusions?

Aw, what are 'facts' anyway, man? This is POMO.

That's it for me i guess. I was bought up to respect academics and learn from them. To see a professor at a good university who can't even get basic, simple, facts correct, blows my mind. Why doesn't she check?

I've probably been sheltered about academia.

With people like Rosa and Kathleen I'm still in awe. I'd love my daughter's to learn from them.

Can't wait for the next dairy entry, Katvon.

Sally's online behaviour compares so badly with the calm dignity of the GC academics - Kathleen Stock, Rosa Freedman, Holly Lawford-Smith, Alice Sullivan, Selina Todd and so on, all of whom have interesting things to say and are able to link to interesting things to read, and never go in for gratuitous insults. Sally's massively outclassed by all of them.

I would love to hear from anyone in Sally Hines field who can explain how she got to be a professor at an RG institution and how she got that mega ESRC grant. Is she just batshit on Twitter?

anything less than 750 people and a handful of Olympic athletes is apparently a tiny gathering

Well, in terms of ratios relative to the numbers of people in general and athletes who would agree with the views at the WPUK meeting, versus the numbers and athletic credentials likely to show for McKinnons event as a percentage of those subscribing to her 'philosophy' and 'ethics', the former is tiny but the latter may be massive.

Philosophy professor, activist and world champion cyclist 🙄
Fairness 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Loving the diary entries.

anything less than 750 people and a handful of Olympic athletes is apparently a tiny gathering

Interesting. Max capacity at the RM venue is only 270.

www.howtoacademy.com/events/transgender-athletes-and-the-science-of-fairness/

Expensive.

Sally's tweets have made it a bit tricky for McKinnon though now, being that anything less than 750 people and a handful of Olympic athletes is apparently a tiny gathering.

Is McKinnon coming over then? I've read this a couple of times on & around that thread. Now that would be a meeting to go to. 😁

When I was a student it was pretty clear cut: engineering students were odd and sociology students were very weird and a bit up their own whatzits.

Kat

That twitter link is a joy on the morning commute.

Sally Hines: proof that queer theory rots your brain

Just say no kids

Seriously, subscribing to something that stops you from understanding what people mean when they say words like ‘man’ or ‘woman’ actually affects your ability to function in society

I grew up poor. My father came from extreme poverty and violence, which affected his mental and emotional health and behaviour and therefore mine. I went from an abusive childhood to abusive adult relationships. I was so traumatised by my experiences that I self harmed for over 30 years. Women only spaces have been vital for me in dealing with this and I now work in an organisation that supports women who've had an even harder time than I have. None of them are privileged yet they value women only space, so fuck off Sally with your invisibilising working class women's experience and agency.

Was poor Sal brought up in poverty? Did she surfer crap housing and dire school? Or is she the particular type of white m/c woman with a saviour complex.

I’m just going to leave this here m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM

Dear Sally, I grew up poor. I’ve experienced racism. A few girls from my school have been in juvie or jail, one got involved with prostitution and is now dead.

I come from a very un-privileged place.

This is why I care about women having sex-segregated spaces. I know how much they are needed.

Trans and NB people need safe spaces and services too - of course they do! I heard of someone building a dedicated shelter ~ that’s great! I will support it.

We need some female spaces. Opening them all to “anyone who feels they are a woman” is an open invitation to predatory guys. They can and will take advantage. They already have. Women have been hurt and others have self-excluded. Please don’t ignore these women.

But if you have to, please at least stop erasing us from our own feminism. A tonne of radfems are Working Class (only rich girls are libfems afaik) and anyone who has been in care or jail is desperate because they know what it means.

Poorer women have spoken but you ignore them and erase them. Why? Why do the voices of only privileged, middle class, tertiary educated people seem to register?

My grandma had dementia and she made more sense.

I think she has a habit of tweeting incoherent crap late at night so people assume she is a drunk. Sadly I don’t think she even has that excuse. She’s a great advert for GC views though as she keeps showing how ludicrous the TRA argument is.

Well they do believe in magic don’t they?

“Why are you talking like a wizard?” Snort