Second Shelf bookshop celebrating IWD with Mermaids

[mindtheclegs]

twitter.com/secondshelfbks/status/1235283967781277703?s=21

Beggars belief really - well it did until I saw the list of people who retweeted the event

Bumping my own thread..

Replying to
@secondshelfbks
There's our fundraiser Monday at Blacks for
@MermaidsGender
and
@breadandroses

Horrifying. A 'feminist' bookshop is fundraising for a charity that openly campaigns for medical intervention on gender non-conforming children.

I seem to remember that was the account using misogynistic slurs against women on twitter so I guess it's not a surprise.

I'm sure the owners a single women who refers to herself in the pural....

Enough said 🤪

Give that womxn a biscuit.

Well I'm blocked so I will never know

What does it even have to do with women? They are just publicly giving all women the middle finger and asking them the swivel.

Exactly.

It's not even about women! It's trolling.

Second Shelf has history.

It will be history if the keep shifting on women and have to rely on the woke trade.

I like this response:

And afterwards - pop along to an event which doesn’t include sponsors of a charities who mutilate children and there’ll be women speaking who are standing up for women!

mobile.twitter.com/secondshelfbks/status/1236360139801845760

rolls eyes

I’m sitting on my hands (well obviously not right now). ‘Did you pee your pants?’ would be my tweet...

I was so sad when I read about this shop selling books by women authors -- and then discovered the owner is anti-feminist! Totally TWAW and no debate. Makes me miss Sisterwrite and Silver Moon even more, the dazzling women's bookshops of my youth.

What possesses women to want to give away our rights?

Isn’t it an actual woman who runs it? God knows how they keep in business.

They are just trolling. If you genuinely believed Mermaids were OK and just wanted to be progressive, why would you have an event with them for IWD?

They've calculated that pissing off feminists is free PR.

Hoping for a protest or picket so they can wail victim. I don’t think it quite worked... 😭😭😭

^mobile.twitter.com/secondshelfbks/status/1236360139801845760^

That particular tweet, mobile.twitter.com/secondshelfbks/status/1236360136412803072, repeats a tale much like they've told before. If you believed their account, they are catnip to gender critical women who are continually drawn in to the shop in order to get their scolding. A sort of woke Venus Flytrap of the book world.

Delusional. Who is financing this shop? Bookshops are trying to keep afloat but NOT fucking off their customers.

Who is financing this shop?

If you look at the tweet linked in PP, you see that some gullible Yanks supposedly bought books because they were so impressed by the shop's commitment to driving away feminists.

Presumably they were a standard woke student bookshop, losing out big time to online retailers, then they hit upon a USP which is very attractive to a group with more money than sense. There can't be many bookshops which are anti free speech and overtly anti women.

The fact that it repels much of their potential custom is not a problem if those people are never buying their books because they are cheaper elsewhere. It's like Lush- most people hate them but that only serves to increase notoriety and kudos with their target market.

This strategy is fucking stupid when firms like M and S try it, but in this case I think it probably very clever (and evil, obvs).

From their tweet:

"We were so relieved they left without starting shit. The calculus they go through to reject something they should love is rancid!

Christ on a bike, I'm not sure whats more eye-roll worthy, their woke authoritarianism or their utter CHILDISH mindset. Who says women (or anyone for that matter) SHOULD love a particular thing? Especially a movement with the fundamental core goal to strip away their boundaries? what complete entitled bilge.

Interestingly enough while they seem to have 24K followers their twitter interactions don't seem anywhere near that number, a lot of these woke/handmaiden pages seem to follow this same pattern.

It’s a bit “& then everyone on the bus applauded”

I wonder whether it really is a sinister marketing plan or just dangerous naïveté? So many of the current batch of female misogynists ( the ones who campaign to let men into women’s spaces) are very very young and very very middle class. Maybe the same is true of the woman who runs this set up?
I mean, if you’re very very young and very very middle class it’s much more likely that:
You’ve never met a prostitute who works on the street
You’ve never met a pimp
You’ve never been sexually assaulted or raped by a man
You’ve never been overlooked at work for a less skilled man
Your child has never been sexually abused by a man
You’ve never had your head smashed into the ground by your male partner
You’ve never been stalked by a scary man who batters on your door in the middle of the night
You’ve never known a woman or girl who was murdered by a man
You’ve never been on a jury in a sex crime case
And if you have little or no experience of these things, you probably wouldn’t see the harm in letting men into women’s changing rooms, refuges, hospital wards and dormitories, would you?
The older you get, the more you see these things, sadly. Maybe this bookshop owner just hasn’t seen much of real life yet.