BookThatMatter exclude "terfs"

This is one time I’m fine with being excluded, they sound like juvenile illiterate over-privileged teenagers

From reading the comments on their Insta page, this company is broke af (slay!) and no doubt could not fund any costs/damages they may be ordered to pay.

GC beliefs are legally protected so I expect that a court case against this awful company might have a reasonable chance of success. Can any legal experts tell us if that might be possible? I do think this kind of bigotry needs calling out in the courts.

Terf issues aside, they sound tedious af, babes.

I belonged to a horse book club for several years. I did read them all, but only once. Mainly hardbacks with beautiful photographs, I still have them all, neglected and unlooked at for decades. I kept meaning to unsubscribe but in those days it meant writing a LETTER and all sorts of other old-fangled nonsense.

Well I do like to add slacking to my passive toddler like behaviour

I read about 20 - 30 books a month.

Slacker.

I read about 20 - 30 books a month. Sometimes it's nice to have the decision outsourced for awhile to change up your reading a bit. Having 1 book a month chosen by someone else when you are choosing the other 19-29 isn't really that passive.

It's more like being in a book club where one of the other members has chosen 1 of the books you read that month.

I don't get book subscriptions - I'm not really sure why you'd want to outsource your reading selection once you get past toddlerhood or the national curriculum. It seems quite passive when most book readers I know (I am in a couple of book clubs) have very clear ideas about what stories they like to read or who they trust to recommend them.

I thought the same.

Pale, male and stale - used to highlight industries dominated by white men of a certain age. By missing out the 'male' bit they seem to have revealed that their 'feminist' book club is fully inclusive of men but has a problem with disgusting geriatrics of maybe 30+

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/04/they-just-wanted-to-silence-her-the-dark-side-of-gay-stan-culture

I probably read men and women authors equally, but I can tell you that I RARELY see my male partner picking up one of my books by a woman. In fact the only one I can think of is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and that’s probably because his sister had recommended it to me.

I read a lot of women authors but would feel restricted if I signed up to an only women package especially one excluding proper feminists

I do gravitate to women authors, actually, I'm not sure why.

Do many women really just want "women" authors especially when being a woman is just about how you think not being female? I'm currently reading a book on Mao's cultural revolution ( very pertinent to the cancelling nonsense of today) and really don't care someone with a penis wrote it. It's a good but depressing book. Mao was an awful narc

I THINK they mean we deny the existence/ance of TW as women. But when you fuck around so much with language you’re going to be misunderstood.

”Stan” comes from the Eminem song (of the same name) whereby the character of Stan obsesses over Eminem and gets so distraught that he doesn’t get the returned attention that he feels he deserves, that he kills himself and his pregnant girlfriend.

The thought of TRA “stanning” women is a bit iffy when you break it down to that level. (Although, I’m not entirely sure if gen z - or whoever adopted the word - have actually listened to the lyrics of that song.)

LinkedIn profile of head girl, sorry, company director:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/molly-masters-📚-482386144

Well they're too right on for me... "cute af packaging"? . And I had to look up "stan", I thought at first it was a misspelling like "existance" (which is not a great look for a book service).

"terfs...deny the existance of women", what does that even mean?

I take offence on the service's behalf.

"She"? Did they just assume the service's pronouns?

Wow. They'd better put on the terf hat and banish themselves.

I was a customer of theirs before they didn't send my order 3 months in a row and continued to take payments after I asked to cancel

That was before their terf comment which I did see on Instagram. I'm glad I'm not a customer now

What a shame. Just seen their post. They sound ridiculous. Crossed off the list.

We should all ban together and create books exclusively for terfs. Except we would probably have the police at the door.

So why are they allowed to do this

This is indeed interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn’t know this existed. Their latest data is from 2019; I believe the shift to “more women published” has only been the case since 2020 so it’ll be interesting to see what their latest data shows. (Something tells me it won’t necessary be reflected, maybe one day!)

How old is their target market? They sound so bloody childish.

Let's see, we will exclude all the women who know men can't be women, call them names and depend on a tiny % of the population of genderists as our customer base.

Funny that they know Page is a female author though eh.