Second Shelf London

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Anyone been watching this drama played out on the Twitter?

jaded millennial
@MillennialJaded

'A women’s bookshop I was interested in visiting is now openly ‘anti terf’ & they publically shamed someone they were following for tweeting an article on sport & trans. FFS this climate is chilling',

A little snippet from the shop itself (one of many on the issue):

'The Second Shelf
@secondshelfbks
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'We want to be clear, we are uninterested in the transexclusionary feminist position! We understand there is discomfort w/ the acronym TERF. But this seems to be because the negative connotations don’t sit well with the position holder? Maybe it’s evidence of a terrible stance?'

Is it "we" because more than one person runs the shop? Not so odd then

Only one person is mentioned but "we are tired" "we are in bed with chocolate and wine".

Only one person is mentioned but "we are tired" "we are in bed with chocolate and wine".

Tends to hint at darkness in the soul, doesn't it?

They do also say " books by women, all women, trans women and non-binary beauties in the world".
So, I am just trying to figure this out, :
books by women - makes sense
including trans women - okay, so we're including men who dress like women
non-binary beauties - nope, you've lost me. Are these women who don't want to be known as women but you actually know they are women so include them anyway?
Or men who don't want to be known as men so that by default makes them womanly?
Or either men or women who don't want to be known as men or women but are beautiful and that is a womanly feature so they class as women for the purpose of writing books?

How does this work? I'd love to know. I mean, it seems like nonsense to me, but do the people who say stuff like this think it makes sense?

I think the 'we' thing is their personal pronoun. So that's ok. And not totally narcissistic.

testing for goodness' sake, don't apply logic to 'non-binary'. It's literally made of logic-repelling juju.

We is we's pronoun? Well. We is confused.

I kinda wonder who gave them financial backing for this cos I guess rent and rates are very dear
Yet they are able not to take terven gold money ?
It’s a weird business strategy

Which only the rich could afford

I kinda wonder who gave them financial backing for this cos I guess rent and rates are very dear

I read that they crowdfunded

https://twitter.com/moviefeminist/status/1182722098185330689?s=21

Sorry but how do these people live with their own cognitive dissonance? Why do they think there is an issue about women’s written work having been overlooked in the first place.

Crowdfunded to open up a womens bookshop only to turn away half of your customers.
The old Vic did the same with their fundraising for more womens loos.

Raising money for womens projects then shafting the very people it is meant to help.

From twitter

I work in Soho & am a feminist, writer & book buyer. I'd never heard of them until today's twitterstorm so I did a google. Opened in Nov 2018 using kickstarter funds of £32k. Annual rent is £20k. The landlord seems to advertising the premises to let...

Ah that type. Crowdfunding yes but I bet there is a trust. Only trustafarians decide to crowdfund to open a right-on bookshop in Soho.

Us proles have to start with a chicken shop in Mile End

thesecondshelf.com/about-the-proprietor
The owner, wrote this:

longreads.com/2017/12/15/this-is-how-a-woman-is-erased-from-her-job/

Fucking bizarre.

Why is she calling herself we if there's just her?

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Why is she calling herself we if there's just her

Her, and the massive chip on her shoulder?

longreads.com/2017/12/15/this-is-how-a-woman-is-erased-from-her-job/

if she wants to lean about erasure first hand, all she needs to do is carry on getting into bed with the people she's chosen to ally with.

Her, and the massive chip on her shoulder?

Lol I ain’t a bookshop owner, Im just some 20 year old who thinks that trans rights are human rights 💫💫 go ahead nd report me for breaking rules,, I don’t need some community to validate my shitty opinions 💖

What human rights do transwomen not have? I believe that everybody should be afforded respect and dignity as human beings. That is in no way threatened by acknowledging that a woman is an adult human female.

They can call themselves whatever ‘gender’ stereotype they want to, it doesn’t change the fact that they will always be the sex they were born as.

especially mothers wanting the best for their children What’s a mother?

woke means respecting people and wanting them to have basic human rights regardless of gender, race or identity

But you happily tramp all over the rights of women, religious minorities, people with disabilities.