Less than four years ago, in October 2015, I wrote about Magdalen Berns’s candidacy for Women’s Liberation Group Convenor at Edinburgh University and the obnoxious way they labeled her “whorephobic” because she’s not pro-pimp. She wrote a guest post here in January.

She promptly went on to become a genius feminist star on YouTube – so the misogynist bit of the universe took her out with glioblastoma, pretty much the worst brain cancer there is. Last week she moved to hospice care. My opinion of these latter developments is that they suck.

“Rachel” McKinnon on the other hand is a fan.

Eh, if they’re a trash human actively trying to harm marginalized people because of who they are? I think it’s justified.

Even Adrian Harrop was taken aback.

You honestly think it’s acceptable or a sign of decency to take pleasure in hearing that another human being is going to die, at a relatively very young age, from an inoperable and incurable brain tumour? And then to express that pleasure publicly on social media?

Sure, dude, sure.

Again, if they’re going out of their way to harm an entire marginalized group? Sure. I’ve already posted about why it’s okay to be happy about shitty people like Koch dying. Maybe live by the maxim whereby, “Don’t be the sort of person who people you’ve harmed are happy you’re dying of brain cancer”

Oh dear, McKinnon is misunderstood.

And, again, transphobes can’t read: I never said that *I* am happy that Magdalen is dying of brain cancer. I merely said that I think such an attitude is ethically justified when the person dying has engaged in extreme harassment of a marginalized group (she’s a HUGE transphobe). Hey, remember when an entire sports stadium of people started CHEERING at the announcement that Bin Laden was killed? Go clutch your pearls somewhere else, transphobes.

Hey, one, I do remember the raucous cheering outside the White House, and it made me cringe.

But also…

Magdalen is IN NO WAY COMPARABLE TO OSAMA FUCKING BIN LADEN.