Second Shelf books, at it again

[MrsSnippyPants]

Compare and contrast:

The literary and journalism community in the UK is transphobic apparently. Yet TRAs are gloating over the death of a journalist.

She is very invested in this ideology.

Solidarity, Detroit. Good to hear from you.

drawn to other constructs of feminism

OK, like what? Aren’t you going to give us a reading list?

Side note - I've seen some American transwomen of the shouty on the internet variety attempting to appropriate the labrys, so that bit may have been on purpose.

I knew as soon as I wrote it that there would be MTF trans somewhere appropriating the labrys from radical lesbian feminists. They're so predictable. Why can't they stick to their pink and blue baseball bats with barbed wire wrapped around them (I'm sure ebooks would approve of that)

Still Mary Daly got there first. It's slap bang in the middle of the front cover of Gyn/Ecology. The slash is the handle of the labrys. The labrys belongs to women, nobody is taking it away from us.

Our family has been associated with an independent leftist bookstore for the last couple of decades. This is NOT how you run an independent bookstore.

Your customers are your life blood, frankly, when you are in the independent business; only a fool decides to alienate potential segments of their customer base by explicitly telling them they are not welcome. Really poor business sense, imo.

When I sell a book, I am invested in SERVICE - what does the person in front of me need, how can I best meet that need, what is the absolute best effort I can make to match customer to text. I am not invested in applying slurs to a customer.

The ethos of the bookstore our family is associated with is that the free exchange of ideas through books is a very valuable thing. The shop is not remotely interested in censoring women. Guess the owners understand the true value of solidarity.

Solidarity, sisters. I would that we could free ebooks from the patriarchy and mental bounds of liberal feminism.
I bet she would sell more books if she didn't alienate her target customer base.

If anyone is interested, News from Nowhere is a proper book store run by a women's workers cooperative since 1974 in Liverpool. It does have a section for trans authors, but also one for women writers and actual feminism. Not the fun kind of feminism that appears to worship cocks, but the real kind that seeks to liberate women from the chains of patriarchy.