The post-cancellation of Julie Bindel. Not on my watch mate .... Suzanne Moore

The apology for the apology is very Python-esque. 😄

I'm assuming that the Alison Evans and the staff who insisted on Julie Bindel being effectively blacklisted (with all of the financial and professional damage that goes along with that) will now quit their jobs at the bookshop/not appear there or have their books stocked there in protest at this retraction.

They clearly feel strongly enough about this issue to tear down a writer. I hope they are prepared to stand by their principles now.

Update from Julie Bindel: twitter.com/bindelj/status/1360888949791731715?s=20

I wonder if Alison Evans was asked to insist on that by Juno? In which case she's been royally played. Both Alison and Readings books would not have realised quite how many people are gender critical outside of their little inner Melbourne bubble. Though they may have got the message by now. And to think that Mark Rubbo apologised for his apology in the Times. Ouch. Perhaps they'll think a bit harder next time before blacklisting a writer for having a differing opinion.

The bookshop itself is doomed big it carries on like this. Very foolish of them when it’s easy to buy books online.

How ridiculous and embarrassing of that author to demand an apology for a venue for simply hosting another author they didn’t agree with. Did this person also demand the bookshop get some sage and smudge the place too to get rid of any lurking anti-misogyny vibes?

Absolute cringeworthy eejits.

mobile.twitter.com/ReadingsBooks

I'm a bit confused.

They regret the apology, but haven't actually removed it from their twitter account?

????

Was the apology about the apology made on twitter or was it only available to people who have bought access to the UK Times...?

[quote stumbledin]If you put this in a film script about some Orwellian future you would go that's a bit far fetched.

But this is today's reality!

suzannemoore.substack.com/p/the-post-cancellation-of-julie-bindel[/quote]

"She talks the talk and she walks the walk"

Too right. She's an icon.

Dawson is also in W Yorks? Didn't know that.

Name-changed for this but Jo March replied to me in the Times comments... Feminism level up!

Janice Turner (or someone with the same name) once recommened one of my comments [preens]

Name-changed for this but Jo March replied to me in the Times comments... Feminism level up!

Alison Evans, the blue-haired (of course) non-binary author who demanded an apology as a condition of her appearing, has published a book called Euphoria Kids - a YA fiction novel with multiple trans characters.

Don't forget Dawson's attitude to homosexuality (Dawson's infamous article in the Independent arguing that gay men were acting out as a consolation prize for not being trans ).

Yes. And the usual double standards abound. The book shop owner said this of Bindel:

Her views on transgender people are particularly controversial and have caused distress in that community.

But nothing about the fact that Dawson’s views on women are particularly controversial and have caused distress in our community.

Hm. I wonder why that could be.

Always lots of concern for safety of transpeople (which is ok of course), but not much thought for the safety of women who get rape and death threats for speaking up for women's rights.

[quote Igneococcus]Also in the Times today:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ec448078-6c68-11eb-9ef0-206cb89ab544?shareToken=06ffbfd41f749e0be5de1a55335084a2[/quote]
Reading that Times article, it turns out the book shop owner, having said he regrets hosting Bindel, now says he regrets apologising...! He’s in quite the spin, isn’t he.

That’s where pandering will get you.

Time he channelled his inner Edith Piaf, methinks.

It used to be the blue rinse brigade and now its the blue haired brigade.

Also in the Times today:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ec448078-6c68-11eb-9ef0-206cb89ab544?shareToken=06ffbfd41f749e0be5de1a55335084a2

It used to be the blue rinse brigade and now its the blue haired brigade. They are both censorious so quite similar even if politically miles apart.

Readings stores tend to be in places which are also infested with the ultra-woke, student brigade. I suspect though, that the blue hair brigade buy fewer books than the well-heeled inhabitants of Carlton and St Kilda. I’m also guessing that Juno Dawson is not terribly well-known in Australia, while Julie Bindel has a stellar reputation in feminist circles. Women buy more books than men.

Julie's written about it in The Spectator:

www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-trans-activists-and-a-bookstore-trying-to-cancel-me-

And it appears from Twitter a writer called Allison Evans is giving themselves the credit for demanding the bookstore apologise.

The bookshop owners referred to in Suzanne's article are cowards - they are afraid that if they don't now denounce Julie Bindel for 'sins' of the past, they themselves will come under fire from TRAs. So they will throw her under the bus to save themselves.