Has anyone else had a reply for the National Library of Scotland

[TheywontletmehavethenameIwant]

Good afternoon

Thank you for your communication of 14 August 2025.

Anyone can visit our reading rooms and access this book as well as the 200 other titles that were not selected for display. A full list of those publications is available as part of the exhibition.

Libraries are vital places where people can access all kinds of publications for free, and form their own opinions.

We hope this addresses your concerns however, ....

• To review the decision to not include the book 'The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht' in the Library's Dear Library exhibition.

The outcome you seek from our investigation are that the Library:

• Includes the above book in the ‘Dear Library’ exhibition.

Is it true they decided to put it back in, I've been busy for a few days so I must have missed that?

Apparently it wasn't even true that you could access the book in their reading rooms
https://x.com/lucyhunterb/status/1957919651532533893?s=61&t=fqBIlp0gCJVNmzgyV_wlSQ

I think what this means is that the book is on the reject list and that should be good enough for us. The later bit is a summary of what they think we want. It's not an offer to actually do it.

I got a similar response so I am raising a Stage 2 complaint. It's not quite clear how to do that as there isn't a separate "Stage 2" submission box, so, I'm just going to email a reply to the message.

Yes, I've been composing my Stage 2, the response I've had is inadequate, it didn't address the main concern I complained about.

I just wanted to check I didn't miss something recently, because I haven't heard that they put it back in, and the response suggests they did.

Are they still accepting complaints about the fact hateful books shouldn't be in there at all?

Its not available, at least it wasn't when I checked earlier. Link is in the other thread.

Ooh libraries love those kind of complaints. Do get in touch and let them know how you feel. Perhaps suggest a list of books you'd like them to ban. Please also write to the Scottish government.

Maybe even suggest a wee burning, Chris?

https://search.nls.uk/discovery/fulldisplay?adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&context=L&docid=alma99118465025604341&lang=en&offset=0&query=any,contains,the%20women%20who%20wouldn%27t%20wheesht&search_scope=MainCatalogue&tab=MainCatalogue&vid=44NLS_INST:44NLS_VU1

On loan til next week, it says.

No no not ban outright, just express my concerns this book shouldn't be in the exhibition at all.

Nothing to stop someone buying it and reading it anytime they want so no one is being "silenced" and there will no opportunity to use Jo's money to sue anyone.

So ban them from the exhibition?

While you're at it, tell them to ban the Bible. It's rather hateful about women.

Is it on display at the exhibition?

I checked today and its not in the exhibition. I did double check with the staff because the exhibition presents the books in a random order.

The Bible IS on display as asked by@Heggettypeg

Thanks to everyone for the info supplied, I've now sent sent in a request for my complaint to be advanced to Stage 2, because I don't think the reply addressed the substance of my complaint at all.

Have you read it?

It’s an interesting collection of personal testimony from a large number of individual women.

But you call it “hateful”. Women speaking about their experiences is “hateful”.

You come across as so childish/immature.

Women speaking about their experiences is “hateful”.

Some people demonstrably think this is true, without even needing to read the book to check. In fact, we could shorten it:

Women speaking is “hateful”.

14th rule of misogny.

https://forwomen.scot/05/02/2025/rules-of-misogyny/

It looks like the book is back.

Thanks to all the amazing folks who pulled this off! Everyone who wrote a complaint played their part.

Fantastic news.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/national-library-to-reinstate-banned-gender-critical-book-wxjjvs3ck

https://archive.ph/F4y7h

I hadn’t got around to reading the book but after this incident with the library I purchased 2 copies and the audible version. I wonder how many others did the same as me. It was a great read.

Fantastic news! With all the cards and formal complaints (plus the letter from one of their sponsors!) the NLS must have realised this wasn't going away.

And yes the book had a sudden uplift in sales.

This is amazing news!! Well done to everyone who has fought so hard for this book to have its rightful place in the exhibition 💜🤍💚

That's great news, I haven't yet had a reply to my Stage 2 complaint, I expect when I do it will be a good reply. 😁

Excellent news! Well done to everyone involved.