How trans activists in publishing hijacked a children's book competition to pursue a personal vendetta

Just ordered the book. Thank you

I agree. People like this aren't being racist, they just don't care.

Right, but this is the natural social consequence of a lot of the Woke bollocks.

A lot of nasty people who aren't primarily motivated by racism, or sexism, but more just by the chance to be unpleasant to people, end up functionally racist and sexist, because that's what Woke lets you be. It's a way for middle-class twats to purity-spiral each other over luxury beliefs that hurt women and minorities.

And this also ends up as a displacement activity from any real measures - rather than people who care about women or minorities (or children!) you get these nasty back-stabbers into position who don't care.

You're appointing Soviet-style political commissars into roles that would be better served by someone who has a calling to the role, rather than the politics. You really do get that sense that these people are far more enthusiastic about the back-stabbing than their nominal rule.

Tweet 1 from Agent:Am I petty enough and procrastinating enough to amend a shortlist image to take out the shortlisted terf. Probably

It's slightly worrying that a literary agent doesn't seem to know what "procrastinating" means. It makes no sense in that sentence.

“If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!”

It’s not racially motivated the stupid crack pot dropped her brains out of her arsehole as she hurried to affirm blokes squeaking about being women. Fuck them kids though. Lambeth? I think I could get a decent bet at Ladbrokes about their ethnicity. Ridiculous.

*22:07Tiddlesthecat

In fairness, many of the authors that ASH publishing represent are also young Muslim women*

Oh yes, she's well known for her white saviourism. I have no problem whatsoever with the amplification of minority voices, but it is to boost her own ego and frankly comes across as tokenism.

And as is abundantly clear, she doesn't actually give a fuck about the wrong sort of observant Muslim woman.

In fairness, many of the authors that ASH publishing represent are also young Muslim women, so I wouldn't assume that this is necessarily racially motivated. And I'm not sure that their trans activism is necessarily relevant. What it does show is highly unprofessional and ungracious conduct by some petty woman who doesn't like to lose. And it will almost certainly back fire on her.

Downe House is basically Eton for girls.

This person is incredibly, astonishingly privileged. How she thinks she can go about lecturing others on what they should think or do is astonishing, and quite frankly unbelievably offensive.

This is not being on the right side of history. This is being a nasty, featherbedded, unjustly overprivileged bully of a woman who punches down from a position of great advantage and luxury.

*hard work they've put in

Couldn't have said it better myself. How anyone could have taken the time to doctor that list and thought "this'll be a GREAT tweet" to herself whilst writing it up needs to have a good hard look at where she's gone wrong.

Utterly disgusting. Not only the total lack of female solidarity or understanding but for a literary agent to basically give no fucks about the choices those children have made abd the gard wirh they've put in to nominate those books.....it's unbelievable.

I obviously meant Titty Fala, with her fucking agency. Call me a bigot and I will laugh you in to the back end of next week. You awful hateful bully.

Still no TRAs on this thread? I am part of a network of women in real life (ReSisters), we spend a lot of time working very hard to ensure broken women get support. Real physical, financial support and my goodness this has fired the furnace. Not only has this wonderful evocative caring writer been shit upon, those children who have very little, who spent months reading books, so they could learn to critique a book, just be involved and understand how it made them feel and vote. This WOMAN (this is a feminist board), who gets up and gives desperate women and children financial support through her charity. This WOMAN is a shining star. Where I come from we say “let’s be ‘aving ya”! She hasn’t even the tits to apologise.

Didn't need a book, so donated to Betsy's swim fundraiser

Same here!

The boy at the back of the class is a really good read. I enjoyed it, as did my DCs.

Removing the author from a shortlist and bragging about it is just arrogant dishonesty.

"We are actively seeking voices that have historically been underrepresented, particularly with tropes that are often said to be “over done”. For example, we are not interested in stories about white able bodied WW2 evacuees but would welcome that story from a disabled, LGBTQ+ or BIPOC perspective."

Gawd. It’s a bit basic but I’d point out that there weren’t going to be many “TQ” evacuees, unless you basically make a load of stuff up in order anachronistically to imagine the past was like the present day. “Queer” evacuees? Righty-ho.

Not many “indigenous people of colour” evacuees, in the US sense, either; unless as pp have pointed out, we completely reimagine the word “indigenous” as something completely different.

I’m all for imagination, but historical inaccuracy really annoys me (I am a historian though 🤣). Didn’t we once think our children’s books should be entertaining, fun, original, historically informative or truthful, rather than thinly disguised opportunities for moralising, preaching and “relatability”? Poor kids.

Gaspode you're quite right, apologies!
But you get my point

The Picts might have something to say about that!

The Celts are the indigenous people of the UK. Those of us decended from Romans, Vikings, Saxons or Normans are just annoying Johnny-come-latelys who should be ashamed of ourselves.

Off to order the book.

My eldest has read it already, youngest hasn’t. It never harms anyone to have two copies of a book.

What an awful person.

twitter.com/JeanHatchet/status/1497123409033060360?t=pBJXim3QBKlBXhwVGAhQYw&s=19

She doesn't like children?

And she thought working in children's publishing was a great idea, why?