Waterstones come out as GC and fire TRA for social media post

I wouldn't stand for GC publishers ripping up trans activists books either for what it's worth

And it does not need saying but, of course, they don't.

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I'd imagine someone at Waterstones has finally looked at sales figures and which books sell and have been wondering why they're not getting a bigger slice of that pie. It wouldn't take long on twitter to have a very good idea, it's a good place to start to weekend out those who are costing you money. I've seen a number of tweets by various Waterstones staff and we've all seen evidence of books being hidden. This seems to be changing, they are a business after all 🤷‍♀️

Surely Waterstones hasn't come out as GC? Simply as a company that upholds a social media policy for their employees and will take appropriate action towards those who breach said policy?

yep. get used to it.

no, we are celebrating some muppet who seems to have a Naziesque policy on authors that don't promote her bullshit ideology and who is stupid enough to brag about destroying company property.

This is mine, and pretty much every GC person I know's position but do you know what, I'm done explaining this to posters like @Lovenothate, and all the others who plop down a 'you're all hateful transphobes' with no back up, no receipts, no reasoning or valid argument.

If they don't have the intelligence or capacity to get that this position of wanting sex based spaces and sports doesn't equate to being transphobic then a) that's a them problem and b) I pity them and how they get through life. Truly. One JKR obsessed poster the other day when I asked if they had read ANY of JKR's essays and they said 'no, I don't have to'. I mean just fuck off.

@RufustheFactualReindeer shes not said anything transphobic, she’s just publicly gender critical. Believing in biological sex is now classified as being transphobic in the eyes of the TRAs

@Lovenothate gender critical does not equate transphobic. I think trans people should be accepted for who they are, I think they should be entitled to the same rights as males and females. I also believe you cannot change your biological sex and that accepting a trans person is not the opposite sex does not mean you deny they exist. It means you accept they’re a trans person and should be entitled to their own spaces, their own sports, their own hospital wards.

Here we go

I don't think it's actually about the issue tbh.

If a labour supporting employee tweeted that they were going to go into work, and rip up and throw away that new Boris Johnson book that's out later this year, or if a Tory supporting employee said it about the Keir Starmer biography, I would think that was an equally stupid thing to tweet, and I'd expect Waterstones to take a similarly dim view of it.

And whats she said that’s transphobic….it doesn’t say on those tweets

Who are you talking to?

I, briefly, felt sorry for here for losing her job. Now I still feel sorry for her because of the utter blindness she has to her own bigotry. All the evidenceless accusations she that makes, she is guilty of. Every single one.

I'm so tired of this. The lies, slander, hyperbole of the tras. Ffs I wish they'd wake up, open their eyes and see themselves.

Personally I'm not celebrating it. But equally it's not ok to tell authors you're going to rip up and bin their books because you don't like the content. That's grim censorship and it's good that Waterstones have some reasonable standards and policies in place. I wouldn't stand for GC publishers ripping up trans activists books either for what it's worth. In fact the more people see of that silly ideology the better.

No

Those are fake tears. My three year old could pretend better than that 🙄

So she threatened to throw away books by an author and then wonders why that person complained. Even my three year old understood consequences. She really doesn't have any brain cells, does she.

Sorry but you’re celebrating a trans phobic author getting someone fired for calling her out on her hate?!

Yes - if she had written “I think that people who are gender critical are stinky poo poos” then she probably would have been fine. But you can’t imply that Waterstones thinks that it is ok to rip up a book of someone who has a completely legally held belief.

😱 rip up books!! And she calls herself a book lover??

What a prat.

That's it, I have nothing more to say

So - did she tweet that she was going to go to work and throw away the products that were to be sold?
And she thinks it's someone else's fault that Waterstones took issue with this?

Leaving aside any GC/trans arguments, whatever you think of the woman or the author, that was quite obviously a very stupid thing to tweet.