Dunno, I can’t read it either and it doesn’t embiggen or anything.
Sackbut
I can’t see enough of the message to tell what book it is. I assume it’s the new Cormoran Strike book.
Sackbut
A bit of searching confirmed that, yes, it’s the new Cormoran Strike book by JKR, and that the bookstore has locked down their Twitter page due to the backlash.
A page I found noted that the store sells Mein Kampf but not the new JKR book. Interesting point.
TheDudeDiogenes
No surprise, but the book store has locked their Twitter account.
iknklast
Sackbut, I had a bookstore refuse to carry my book. It was about a dystopian world where women had to bring in their menstrual blood to a clinic every month to be sure they hadn’t sloughed off a fertilized egg. I don’t know if it’s because it talked about menstruation without mentioning that men can menstruate, if it’s because it was blurbed by Ophelia, or both. I just know they refused it because it “wasn’t suitable”.
Sackbut @ 3, oh, sorry, I forgot that I’d had to click through to see it. I’ll add a screen grab.
twiliter
I have to laugh at people who protect their tweets or delete their accounts suddenly. Guilt by retraction. :D
Skeletor
The obscured sentence was driving me crazy as well, but I was able to find it:
the Wall of Shame includes the woman who asked for a key for when no one is working. Do you really want to be in that company?
(you don’t).
Oh, yes, that woman. Yes, I’m sure we all remember that incident well.
Anyway, good luck to them on not selling the new JK Rowling book.
Another Random Commenter
So this bookshop doesn’t have J.K. Rowling?
Hmm. I wonder if they have “ Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds”?
The expurgated version.
The one without the gannet. I don’t like them … they’re transphobic.
Screechy Monkey
Isn’t this… “doxxing”? Which is supposed to be awful?
iknklast
Screechy, doxxing isn’t awful for TERFs, in fact, it’s mandatory and a glorious action that will expose the single most dangerous group of people that have ever lived (apparently worse than Nazis, by the ACLUs estimation).
J.A.
A bookstore banning a book isn’t a good look, oddly enough.
Sackbut
I could be wrong, but I think Screechy was suggesting that what’s been done to the bookstore constitutes “doxxing”: finding the now-hidden tweet, finding information about the bookstore and their practices, investigating the less-than-relevant side issue about the woman who wanted a key.
It’s a point, but I don’t think it’s strong. Nobody (here, at any rate) has found and disclosed the store’s address or phone number or web site, or called for vandalism or crank calls or mass orders for the “banned” book, the kinds of things that are expected or implied when personal information of a private individual gets disclosed. That’s usually what I see referred to as “doxxing”: disclosure of personal information, with the expectation that this information is going to be used for harassment.
Acolyte of Sagan
Sackbut, I think that Screechy was referring to the ‘wall of shame’ for those who try to order Rowling’s book.
It’s the pillory* for the digital age: the public display of offenders to make it easier for the woke to display their virtue by throwing rotten tomatoes – or the modern equivalent, cheap insults – at the exposed, immobile and defenceless victims.
* not ‘stocks’, a similar but less-restrictive device which clamped around the ankles alone, allowing the restrained to sit or lay down and leaving their arms free to defend themselves
Sackbut
*smacks head* Of course. Thanks.
The “wall of shame” is really bad form, isn’t it? And they don’t appear to do it for any other book. This must be the Most Dangerous Book in the World.
The wall of shame is the creepiest thing I’ve seen in some time. (I looked into it a bit yesterday and it turns out the “us” is just one person – it’s just one person with a very small bookshop which is closed for the lockdown. Since it’s just one misguided person I decided not to belabor the issue but…yeah, walls of shame in bookstores, let’s not be doing that ever.)
James Garnett
@thirdHouseBooks has locked their account because “they were being harassed for taking a stand against transphobia”. I dunno how, exactly, since they couldn’t have read JKR’s book and just refused to sell it because they deemed it “transphobic”. But, ya know, whatever. I’m sure that JK Rowling will be able to afford a pot of beans or two in the coming months, despite their Very Courageous Stand; not so certain about this tiny bookstore itself. There are only so many trans activists who can repeatedly dip into their patreon funds that pay for horse-urine-based hormones to help support a bookstore whose owners clearly have no idea what they’re talking about.
And especially a bookstore that shouts at its customers not to order this one book or you’ll be on the wall of shame. I mean wow, outstanding promo there.
Acolyte of Sagan
Methinks the owner of Third House Books is making the same mistake that so many people are making at present. (S)he is assuming that the cacophony of hate from TRAs has to be coming from a vast army of trans-allies rather than relatively few but very loud individuals.
The book seller probably believes that this piece of virtue-signalling will have the TRA hordes beating a path to the store of such a selfless individual prepared to sacrifice livelihood for the cause, and when reality bites it’s going to bite hard, with a lot of lost sales and no army turning up to throw money at the business.
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That partially obscured one about shaming a woman who asked for a key? What’s that about?
You like humiliating your patrons? Especially women? (How do you know it’s a woman?)
Dunno, I can’t read it either and it doesn’t embiggen or anything.
I can’t see enough of the message to tell what book it is. I assume it’s the new Cormoran Strike book.
A bit of searching confirmed that, yes, it’s the new Cormoran Strike book by JKR, and that the bookstore has locked down their Twitter page due to the backlash.
A page I found noted that the store sells Mein Kampf but not the new JKR book. Interesting point.
No surprise, but the book store has locked their Twitter account.
Sackbut, I had a bookstore refuse to carry my book. It was about a dystopian world where women had to bring in their menstrual blood to a clinic every month to be sure they hadn’t sloughed off a fertilized egg. I don’t know if it’s because it talked about menstruation without mentioning that men can menstruate, if it’s because it was blurbed by Ophelia, or both. I just know they refused it because it “wasn’t suitable”.
Sackbut @ 3, oh, sorry, I forgot that I’d had to click through to see it. I’ll add a screen grab.
I have to laugh at people who protect their tweets or delete their accounts suddenly. Guilt by retraction. :D
The obscured sentence was driving me crazy as well, but I was able to find it:
Oh, yes, that woman. Yes, I’m sure we all remember that incident well.
Anyway, good luck to them on not selling the new JK Rowling book.
So this bookshop doesn’t have J.K. Rowling?
Hmm. I wonder if they have “ Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds”?
The expurgated version.
The one without the gannet. I don’t like them … they’re transphobic.
Isn’t this… “doxxing”? Which is supposed to be awful?
Screechy, doxxing isn’t awful for TERFs, in fact, it’s mandatory and a glorious action that will expose the single most dangerous group of people that have ever lived (apparently worse than Nazis, by the ACLUs estimation).
A bookstore banning a book isn’t a good look, oddly enough.
I could be wrong, but I think Screechy was suggesting that what’s been done to the bookstore constitutes “doxxing”: finding the now-hidden tweet, finding information about the bookstore and their practices, investigating the less-than-relevant side issue about the woman who wanted a key.
It’s a point, but I don’t think it’s strong. Nobody (here, at any rate) has found and disclosed the store’s address or phone number or web site, or called for vandalism or crank calls or mass orders for the “banned” book, the kinds of things that are expected or implied when personal information of a private individual gets disclosed. That’s usually what I see referred to as “doxxing”: disclosure of personal information, with the expectation that this information is going to be used for harassment.
Sackbut, I think that Screechy was referring to the ‘wall of shame’ for those who try to order Rowling’s book.
It’s the pillory* for the digital age: the public display of offenders to make it easier for the woke to display their virtue by throwing rotten tomatoes – or the modern equivalent, cheap insults – at the exposed, immobile and defenceless victims.
* not ‘stocks’, a similar but less-restrictive device which clamped around the ankles alone, allowing the restrained to sit or lay down and leaving their arms free to defend themselves
*smacks head* Of course. Thanks.
The “wall of shame” is really bad form, isn’t it? And they don’t appear to do it for any other book. This must be the Most Dangerous Book in the World.
The wall of shame is the creepiest thing I’ve seen in some time. (I looked into it a bit yesterday and it turns out the “us” is just one person – it’s just one person with a very small bookshop which is closed for the lockdown. Since it’s just one misguided person I decided not to belabor the issue but…yeah, walls of shame in bookstores, let’s not be doing that ever.)
@thirdHouseBooks has locked their account because “they were being harassed for taking a stand against transphobia”. I dunno how, exactly, since they couldn’t have read JKR’s book and just refused to sell it because they deemed it “transphobic”. But, ya know, whatever. I’m sure that JK Rowling will be able to afford a pot of beans or two in the coming months, despite their Very Courageous Stand; not so certain about this tiny bookstore itself. There are only so many trans activists who can repeatedly dip into their patreon funds that pay for horse-urine-based hormones to help support a bookstore whose owners clearly have no idea what they’re talking about.
And especially a bookstore that shouts at its customers not to order this one book or you’ll be on the wall of shame. I mean wow, outstanding promo there.
Methinks the owner of Third House Books is making the same mistake that so many people are making at present. (S)he is assuming that the cacophony of hate from TRAs has to be coming from a vast army of trans-allies rather than relatively few but very loud individuals.
The book seller probably believes that this piece of virtue-signalling will have the TRA hordes beating a path to the store of such a selfless individual prepared to sacrifice livelihood for the cause, and when reality bites it’s going to bite hard, with a lot of lost sales and no army turning up to throw money at the business.