Moleskine sales will shoot up...

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I can't see the reply Moleskine sent, is it available?

I like them.

I've been using their 18-month pocket diaries for years now, I find the blank page useful to make additional notes without having to write tiny/illegibly. I get a new one mid-year, doesn't matter when because the old one I'm using runs to the end of the year, and when I get to the end of the year, I'm definitely using the new one by then so that I can be noting appointments in January onwards.

I don't think they have responded. The wittering about "This is the email @moleskine sent me" I think just refers to the marketing e-mail that set this rant a-running.

Good grief.

Does she mean sprite?

Not that that's the worst thing about that blurb.

I thought so too at first, but this is how she describes herself on Twitter: “To this gender essentialist cult, because I was born with a genetic malformation in my hymen and vagina, I wasn’t a woman. But I am: and so are are trans women who also have surgery like mine to form a vagina opening.”

What? If she's a woman born with a imperforate hymen, well, so was my mother. That never made her male. DSDs are sex-specific.

Of course, words may mean something else to a vulnerable sprightly gadfly.

I sincerely hope that's just a typo - otherwise the Oxford English department has very much gone down hill.

That is interesting. I never thought a malformed hymen or vagina caused a female to not be female.

And sadly, with the level of twisting that we see, this could also mean anything. But it feels like this person is all about PoMo and what they say they are, they are. And very performative such as only using Moleskin as a writer etc, I have a teen who is all about 'the aethetics' who says things like this.

Those comments have such an entitled tone.

Hopefully moleskine responds, although what is there to say really. "We concluded that a HP collab would increase our bottom line, unlike bending to your demands." Maybe Letchuum could get into the fray too.

Gender essentialists (whatever they are, some kind of person who goes in for gender) may believe that. Gender critics, who don't believe in gender, know that sex is chromosomal and sometimes complicated.

Ahhh OK thank you, I'll take another look later.

I dunno, is a gender essentialist something you can get from Waitrose? Like their essential olives?

Seems to be up now.

https://www.moleskine.com/en-gb/harry-potter/

They are lovely, unfortunately I'll have to stick to home bargains for my notebooks

From the JL internal magazine ruckus we know they consider gender essentialism essential.

I know. Would love one. But even if I could stretch to the book £8 postage is too steep (and more than I’d normally pay for a notebook on its own!)

I looked it up and apparently 'spright' is archaic, and means spirit, mind, soul, state of mind.

There is an anthem ('Never weatherbeaten sail') which talks about sprite/spright in the sense of spirit.

But 'spright-like'? I'm not sure what's going on there.

TK Maxx often has Moleskine notebooks and diaries at a good price. (Misses point of thread)

Will see if I can get the HP range in Germany and somehow justify the money spent on it. Of course, I'll give myself a stern talking to after ;)

Had a chuckle at the CV link posted upthread. Claims to be fluent in German (including Mittelhochdeutsch). Now German can be useful, but why anyone would say they are fluent in a language that hasn't been spoken for almost 700 years is beyond me.

Ah, that makes sense now.

This thread reminded me it's about that time to order my new 18-month diary.

Oops, posted too soon.

I'd normally go for a personal-size, this one's a bit bigger but it'll fit in my handbag OK, so - mischief managed!

They're quite lovely.

This. Also Leuchtturm, whose notebooks I really like too - slightly different shape to Mokeskine and the pages are numbered. Although as a German company which highlights it was founded in 1917, I do wonder what the company was doing during WW2...

Don't know if I've ever paid full price - either on offer at Cass Art or TKMaxx.