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San Fran bookstore stops selling Harry Potter due to JKR's 'anti-trans views' with women's fund being the 'last straw'

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frazzled1 · 27/06/2025 07:26

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/san-francisco-bookstore-stops-selling-jk-rowling-titles-due-harry-pott-rcna215255?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=685dd109cf7ebf00013ec66f&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

The Booksmith team said on Instagram that Rowling’s new "women's fund" was the last straw. 🙄

San Francisco bookstore stops selling J.K. Rowling titles due to 'Harry Potter' author's anti-trans views

The Booksmith team said on Instagram that Rowling’s new "women's fund" was the last straw.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pop-culture/san-francisco-bookstore-stops-selling-jk-rowling-titles-due-harry-pott-rcna215255?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=685dd109cf7ebf00013ec66f

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WallaceinAnderland · 28/06/2025 15:59

Women have been harassed and abused by men in every space imaginable. The suggestion that they photograph, name and shame men in places where they know they have no right to be is now making those predators cry.

Get over yourselves. Don't go in there = don't be named and shamed.

Take some fucking responsibility for your own actions.

FAFO

INeedAPensieve · 28/06/2025 16:19

PlasticAcrobat · 27/06/2025 07:37

I don't really care what some idiot bookshop in a foreign city is doing. Increasingly I just resent the leading role the US has taken in creating the fuck-up around gender ideology and want them to leave us alone, and leave MN alone.

I know that isn't a constructive way to feel. But this fight for women's rights is so raw and exhausting that dredging up every faraway instance of idiot bigotry just seems like a form of self-harm.

I read on another thread recently just how astonishingly recently the US gave to lesbians, gays and trans people the kind of protection against discrimination that was codified in the UK by the equality act in 2010 (and which I understand was also partly present in earlier bits of legislation that the equality act brought together?)

They are so behind us; inevitably that means they are also behind us in their reaction/self-correction in the face of the overreach of trans activism. I'm sick of the cultural imperialism which means that we have to experience our own trajectory in the light of their (currently fucking insane) politics.

Great post. Needs repeating.

America and their tribalism and the way it bleeds into our culture can fuck the fuck off. I'm sick of it too. They are so behind in terms of healthcare, abortion rights etc etc how DARE they say any sort of shit about JK Rowling who actually does do good for women's rights. Fuck off.

Sorry for the swearing I'm sick of it, tired and angry too).

MoodyAndBlue · 28/06/2025 16:33

WallaceinAnderland · 28/06/2025 15:59

Women have been harassed and abused by men in every space imaginable. The suggestion that they photograph, name and shame men in places where they know they have no right to be is now making those predators cry.

Get over yourselves. Don't go in there = don't be named and shamed.

Take some fucking responsibility for your own actions.

FAFO

I just hope women who do this do it very safely and also when they are sure it's a man. I know I don't intend to confront anyone in this way, I wouldn't risk it but if other women want to do it I guess they will 🤷

lcakethereforeIam · 28/06/2025 17:52

lcakethereforeIam · 27/06/2025 11:30

Wasn't sure where to post this. Even thought of starting a new thread! Then I saw 'books'!...'America'!...Good enough.

It's about the books in Mahmoud v Taylor, explained in the video, which has gone all the way to the Supreme Court. I'd heard about bookbans but knew very little about the titles involved. This brave, lovely lady goes through the ones that were involved in this case. She doesn't appear to be a frothing, homo/transphobic right winger. It's an entertaining and fair, imo, examination of the titles in the context of the parents objections and what the school was using them for.

Just a quick update, the plaintiffs won. Here's the case as explained by Wikipedia

Mahmoud v. Taylor - Wikipedia https://share.google/Nr82bXbrvM2rD3z2V

Wish I could put a sensitive filter on the picture.

Much to my surprise I find myself agreeing with part of a quote attributed to Trump (the 2nd part only). Getting lumped with the TQ+ is disastrous for the LGB.

President Donald Trump endorsed the ruling during a press conference on June 28, calling it a "tremendous ruling for parents" but noting that he was "surprised that it went this far".

Eta I think I've got rid of his picture, rogue hyperlink.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 28/06/2025 23:28

TheOtherRaven · 27/06/2025 15:38

This is very, very unlikely, isn't it?

If a woman is sufficiently fed up to take a photograph and share it, it will be because the person in front of her is blatantly, obviously a man as many, many of the intruders into women's spaces are and quite likely doing one of the lovely antisocial demonstrations such as peeing or wanking with the door open, taking selfies or waving swords, and performatively being A Man Using The Women's Space.

I'm very much behind embarrassing the fuck out of those men. And I'm not up for them getting to hide, yet again, behind a lot of female socialisation about ooh but wouldn't it be awful if possibly, somehow, as a one off awful mistake, a woman got mistakenly accused.

I'm more worried about the women who will definitely suffer by letting these men crack on unembarrassed, unchallenged and enabled.

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There's probably no need for women to film or photograph them. They tend to do that themselves. And upload it to the Internet.

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