WTF! How can any University allow a member of their staff to behave like this on a public site?

Have I missed this traditional way of marking Friday 13th all these years? I must be more unobservant than I'd realised.

Really? I find Friday 13th is so commercialised these days. All those skeleton costumes in the shops every time it rolls around.

Clearly a deranged male that posted that. I can't imagine any woman being that disgusting.

Errol, the comment about the witch being dead was a friend/follower of McKinnon, who is UK based, and had retweeted the notice about Berns' death. I'm not on twitter so not quite sure of how the sequence of tweets went - I guess the further down ones were posted first?

Yep. IIRC (though could be wrong) the context was one in which being a medical doctor might lend authority to their argument - whereas the thesis title rather suggests otherwise.

My new resolution, after Magdalen’s death, is to be more Magdalen. I shall write to all involved in employing this vile human being.

Did he really say that, Errol?? I think my toes snapped off at all the curling they just did. 😧

As Rachel once said to Ross, in Friends

'If I have a heart attack in restaurant, I want you there with your fossil brush'.

I can't even pretend he's a Dr

Oh, I'm more than happy to acknowledge the PhD - I'm delighted the wiki page now includes the title:

"Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About".[4]

And also to point out that despite working in a field where most of us have PhDs (science not philosophy) I've never once heard anyone say, as McKinnon idiotically or misleadingly did 'I am a Doctor'.

He's an inadequate cheat and a very seriously disturbed and deluded individual.

I can't even pretend he's a Dr, let alone a woman and certainly not a professional athlete.

RIP Magdalen. You clearly got to him and believe me, he knows you're right.

I wish someone would give me a job ie income for life and free rein to spew contemptible shit that by association smears the organisation I work for, all without any comeback. Untouchable - no wonder RM feels able to openly post the shit swirling around their brain .
Although to be fair, the NSPCC likes to protect their own dodgy staff too, maybe we should all claim a new gender/ kink identity and instantly become untouchable too. .

Depraved

Sick. Just sick. What a deprived individual

McKinnon obviously feeds off attention. Unhinged and abhorrent individual. I fear that the university will simply take the excuse at face value. I don't know why, I wouldn't want this person associated with me in any way.

Magdalen Burns burned so brightly. She was something those repulsive individuals could never be, in so many ways.

Ive just emailed [email protected]

Indeed, Lord.

The fact that the university and none of Rachel's sponsors respond or condemn his Tweets, absolutely drives me up the wall.

Are they afraid to, cos if they do, they'll feel the full weight of the TRA's aggression?

I blame them equally for enabled him.

Harrop's awfully quiet...he obviously learned his lesson the last time he deviated from the cult's playbook. 🤨

One of us.
One of us.

• they/their, as in the organisation. I'm not bowing down to using a plural pronoun for an individual here.

MNHQ’s decision to zap the other thread for misgendering was disgraceful.

Didn't McKinnon get Martina thrown off a sporting body (that McKinnon still sits on)?

If so, they need to know just what their ambassador is doing.

he's on the one hand pretending it's a Friday the 13th thread, and on the other he's retweeted

'no one is obligated to cry when an abuser dies.

they're also not required to hide from you their relief the abuser is gone'

and 'Magdalen Berns was a bigot'

don’t forget Strava and the bike company that supports them.

It’s only a small thing, but I joined other feminists in giving Strava a 1* review on the App Store and explained why.

This is a new low surely, even for McKinnon?

I'd tell McKinnon to get some class, only McKinnon wants to steal mine.

I expect nothing less from this ghoul, but the university? Show some decency.

The reason he gets away with it is down to trans privilege. No other group in society is allowed to behave in this way. Oppression, my arse.

Vile. Does McK think we’re all thick? Completely obvious what was meant, and once again exposes the howling black void that is where McKs heart should be.

Oh and if anyone is emailing the college, don’t forget Strava and the bike company that supports them. People and companies can’t be allowed to say ‘we didn’t know’ or ‘that was taken out of context’. You either condemn it or agree with it.

What a despicable human being. I hope some day someone dances on her grave