Page 8 | American Booksellers Association and Abigail Shrier

lionheart · 2021-07-15T20:02:51+00:00

Sorry if there is already a thread--I couldn't find it.

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lionheart · 15/07/2021 22:25

@StandUpStraight

Ah, interesting lionheart. Chicken or egg, I wonder.

A canny bookseller could take a leaf from ...

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lionheart · 15/07/2021 22:24

@yourhairiswinterfire

It's just setting quietly on my bedside table.

You don't sleep with both eyes closed with that thug of a book sat right there, watching and waiting, do you? 😱

Please sleep with the lights on.

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littlbrowndog · 15/07/2021 22:24

Jeez Pam. Hope you have cats

Cats will always defend against violent books.

They will piss on it and then hope you have a toddler as they will toss it int the loo

Double guarding

yourhairiswinterfire · 15/07/2021 22:20

It's just setting quietly on my bedside table.

You don't sleep with both eyes closed with that thug of a book sat right there, watching and waiting, do you? 😱

StandUpStraight · 15/07/2021 22:19

Ah, interesting lionheart. Chicken or egg, I wonder.

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 15/07/2021 22:18

@Olderbadger1

One of the totally proportionate responses on twatter, that edifice of reasonable eloquence...

@AnneOgborn
Replace every single person on your selection committee with a trans person. Commit to sending a pro trans book with every order for the next 5 years and drop the book's publisher, and any other publisher who publishes hate. Publish a complete account of how this happened, including names of all employees involved. Fire all involved in the decision and their managers, transitively up to the CEO.

Oh just ridiculous

How does this person even function…surely walking and thinking at the same time would cause them massive issues

JustcameoutGC · 15/07/2021 22:16

I honest to God thought that was a parody and a pretty good one at that.

I have been challenging myself to outdo it, but short of a free TERF scalp with every trans book, I came up blank.

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lionheart · 15/07/2021 22:13

Irreversible Damage is trending in the US.

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zanahoria · 15/07/2021 22:11

They need the hyperbole to persuade themselves that censorship is justified.

PamDenick · 15/07/2021 22:09

I have a copy, if anyone's interested.

it didn't bite me.

It's just setting quietly on my bedside table.

littlbrowndog · 15/07/2021 22:07

Like toddlers who’s piece of toast has been cut up wrong

If toddlers could go on Twitter they would have said the same

We are dealing with toddlers pretending to be adults

EdgeOfACoin · 15/07/2021 22:05

@StandUpStraight

America is a litigious society. I would love to see Abigail Shrier take them to court for the suggestion that (a) her book is anti trans and (b) making it available to people constitutes an act of violence.

I would like to see that too.

To be honest, I can't think of a better way to get people to read the book than to react like this.

MondayYogurt · 15/07/2021 22:04

TBF this is amazing free publicity for the paperback. Every hate tweet, every facebook post, every speck of outrage should be met with "If you're curious about this debate you should buy the book".
That's it. Just buy the book.

MillicentMargaretAmanda · 15/07/2021 22:03

crazyneighbour Sadly it looks as though the Anne Ogden twitter account is not parody...

StandUpStraight · 15/07/2021 22:01

America is a litigious society. I would love to see Abigail Shrier take them to court for the suggestion that (a) her book is anti trans and (b) making it available to people constitutes an act of violence.

littlbrowndog · 15/07/2021 21:54

Honestly a book sends them privileged melts into a spiral of fear and disgust

Don’t they just sell books ?

Ffs booksellers that’s it

Do your jobs sell books

AssassinatedBeauty · 15/07/2021 21:43

They sound like a bunch of craven tools.

littlbrowndog · 15/07/2021 21:43

Snigger.

Idiots

CrazyNeighbour · 15/07/2021 21:42

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yourhairiswinterfire · 15/07/2021 21:41

''Serious, violent incident''.

Bunch of fucking clowns 🤣

PaleBlueMoonlight · 15/07/2021 21:38

Bloody hell. That’s… strong.

UtopiaPlanitia · 15/07/2021 21:34

The overblown wording of some of the public statements, released by organisations and individuals accused of insufficient wokeness, in recent years often put me in mind of confessions made during struggle sessions in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. I don’t think this frenetic finger-pointing can be sustainable and may well provoke a backlash when society has had enough. There are better, more consensual ways to effect change in liberal democracies.

AfternoonToffee · 15/07/2021 21:31

Well, that is what happens if you start to even give them a millimetre, nothing you do will ever be enough. On to a total loser the second you try to placate them.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 15/07/2021 21:23

@Olderbadger1

One of the totally proportionate responses on twatter, that edifice of reasonable eloquence...

@AnneOgborn
Replace every single person on your selection committee with a trans person. Commit to sending a pro trans book with every order for the next 5 years and drop the book's publisher, and any other publisher who publishes hate. Publish a complete account of how this happened, including names of all employees involved. Fire all involved in the decision and their managers, transitively up to the CEO.

Honestly, they sound like 5 years olds!

Olderbadger1 · 15/07/2021 21:21

One of the totally proportionate responses on twatter, that edifice of reasonable eloquence...

@AnneOgborn
Replace every single person on your selection committee with a trans person. Commit to sending a pro trans book with every order for the next 5 years and drop the book's publisher, and any other publisher who publishes hate. Publish a complete account of how this happened, including names of all employees involved. Fire all involved in the decision and their managers, transitively up to the CEO.