Are the owners of Good Books misogynists?

Ani O’Brien
10 min readNov 20, 2020

I am going to willingly step into their click-bait advertising trap to ask some questions of their selective virtue signalling. You see, Jane Arthur and Catherine Robertson want you to know that they simply will not stock the books of arguably the world’s best selling author. They “have queer and non-binary friends and family members” and to stock a single book by J.K. Rowling would make people like them feel “unwelcome or unsafe”.

Oh bravo! The lives they will have saved! The safety they have promoted! They truly are heroines of the 21st century.

They also want you to know that they are Intersectional Feminists™. In case you aren’t aware, far from Kimberlie Crenshaw’s original conception of intersectionality (race, class, and sex), nowadays to be an Intersectional Feminist™ means to centre males in the movement. It is to say not only can males become women upon a declaration alone, but it is feminism’s job to validate, placate, pander, and worship them when they do.

J.K. Rowling has earned herself a spot in the bad books of Good Books due to her recent statements on transgenderism and women’s rights. Her statements are available online on her website or her Twitter account, but sadly this seems not to have helped those who are invested in misrepresenting her words and punishing her for WrongThink. Those who have not…

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Ani O’Brien

Like good faith disagreements & principled people. Dislike disingenuousness & Foucault. Care about women’s rights & democracy. Opinions my own ⚢