McKinnon targeting Kelly Holmes

[Sexnotgender]

McKinnon is going after Kelly Holmes now and has tweeted @iamspecialized who Kelly has a sponsorship deal with

Specialized are getting slaughtered on Twitter. Good.

Keep peaktransing people, McKinnon.

I have fired off an email to

[email protected]

My guess is, having worked for UK offshoots of American firms, that people there roll their eyes at times at the inability of their woke Californian colleagues to understand markets other than their own. They are making the same mistake as the BBC, by assuming that the Yoof market is made up of cool kids, who support the TRA approach. This is not so. Sporty yoof who might spend a lot on a bike, know about sport, admire people like Dame Kelly, and don't like the idea of losing fairness in women's sport either as a participant or supporter.

So they may welcome a few good emails to send on, that will be waiting for their US colleagues when they come into the office.

It's amazing how many big brands have no clear grasp of their social media presence. Companies have little idea what it's all about or how to do it properly, and often appoint 20-30-somethings who end up having considerable latitude in being able to use the company's social media presence as a platform for their own political views.

Thanks for that email, just written to them too. This is all very odd.

I’m looking forward to the inevitable end point if they throw Kelly under the bus. As we know trans activists are never appeased, so we can look forward to Specialized being branded ‘transphobic’ for marketing bikes with smaller proportions as ‘Womens’ Bikes’.

And every other cycle company on earth, of course.

After looking at a few twitter feeds on this thread, I came across this obnoxious person Anthony Watson, who proclaims himself to be the "lead LGBT advsor to UK Labour".
He is accusing Sharron Davis and Martina of having far right views.
He clearly hates women.

twitter.com/AnthonyWatson/status/1103573234983886848

www.liv-cycling.com/gb/about-liv

This is Liv, the female specific brand of Giant, if anyone is looking for a bike that’s not a Specialized.

Will be emailing Specialized to complain.

Madigan will be raging about this.

McKinnon has just ridden into town and is occupying the entire brave and stunning circus tent.

That's Americans for you though. They always have to do bigger and better than the Brits.

Madigan will probably respond by publicly reporting a female Labour member for transphobia for talking about maternity leave. And then LM will ask for money on Twitter for new clothes.

You need to up your game, mate. Nobody like a one-trick pony.

It clearly answers the question on why current female athletes are not speaking up. They will have their future careers destroyed.

Actually, I'm not seeing anything to confirm Kelly's sexuality, so I might have made an uneducated guess there...or I'm confusing her with someone else.

McKinnon is the gift that keeps on giving. I'm seriously beginning to wonder if they're one of those crisis actors employed by Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson.

Thank you for that link, RMK is stomach churning.

From the thesis of the esteemed Dr McKinnon.

"When we make claims to each other we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we are talking about? This book argues that we don't. In fact it argues, that in some special contexts, we can lie"

Substitute this for the last line.

"In fact it argues, that in some special contexts, we can cheat"

I've also emailed them

I’ve got a Liv bike. It’s very nice. Had to have it special ordered, but my local bike shop did all the ordering legwork AND put it together before I collected it (no additional cost to me).

I’m not particularly sporty, btw, my Liv bike replaced my Pashley

i think theres a bit of cultural difference here-

but taking on kelly holmes/sharron davies and paula radcliffe was surely a stupid move and wont win rmk/the cause any friends in the uk.

I guess this explains the tweet from iamspecialized. Looks like someone very woke runs their SM

Thanks for the link to Liv bikes, I’m looking to buy a bike and obviously specialized is now off the list unless they do a massive about turn and publicly apologise for that tweet.

Can someone who is on twitter reply to that tweet and @ Andrew Gillian and/or Victoria Peckham at the Times.

Sunlight etc.

lucy101101 [email protected]

thanks Lucy! I shall put work to one side for a few mins and send an email too. I have Specialized bikes and kit; and a Garmin device as well.

A quick google shows their press contact as: [email protected].
(which may be a useful place to contact as they might get the ramifications!)

or call 023 8052 4000

Can anyone here actually see the tweets to Specialized, given that 95% of the population are blocked?

This makes me so fucking pissed off. RMK is an idiot

I'm beginning to wonder whether RMcK is actually an extremely dedicated academic who is sacrificing all to a follow-up on their original thesis 'Why You Don't Need To Know What You're Talking About' by seeing how much crap they can spout and how obnoxiously they can behave and still have people believe them.

I'm so looking forward to seeing their follow-up paper.

I’ve tweeted all the journos I’ve got on my account.