Female author Mola revealed to be three men at €1m prize ceremony

So, there's these people who claim to be multiple persons, sometimes with different genders.. I think the political correctness culture is now ripe for the next step: multiple people of different genders identifying as one single human person with one single gender.

Trying to catch them in a logical trap? For them, logic is a facade: once you find a hole in it, they'll patch it with something and move on.

I don't think any of the (real) authors are trans, so it's not ideologically difficult from that perspective. On the other hand, feminism is (nominally) a movement to establish equality of the sexes, and about fighting against gender stereotypes. Men convincingly writing from a female point of view, and publicly presented as women, would seem to me to do exactly that. Fight against writing style/subject stereotypes, and demonstrate how gender is not essential in the act of writing - subverting gender essentialism.

If feminist were true to their professed convictions, they should be applauding this book.

> Does this not put them in an ideologically difficult position? Is it not deemed "transphobic" these days to take a position on whether or not someone is really a woman?

Not at all. None of the authors claim to be women, all claim to be men. I’m really not sure why you think there would be a problem.

It's much easier to have a great selection of feminist books than a great selection of books...good luck competing with the internet in the 2nd category.

There was a documentary about specialist stores popping up in Berlin, and generalist stores dying.

I wonder how the revenue in the book industry is split between men and women.

There is an anarchist bookstore on Saint Laurent in Montreal, and has been for a long time.

https://insoumise.wordpress.com/

https://goo.gl/maps/NAZN9ctDrKcgU98k9

Probably similar to the NYT subscriptions surge during the Trump administration. People just buying to signal and "support the cause". Partisan views have it a lot easier to raise money from their followers than those trying to find a middleground.

Go to Boulder Colorado. It's so easy to spot sexism against men all over the place, including feminist bookstores that are there to make money off the rich bored people "culture wars".