Hi everyone,

My copy of Janice Raymond's new book just arrived and I'm running out to pick it up shortly, which is very exciting. As usual now, the bookstore emailed me to let me know that the book was in. These emails are of course short, and usually list the full book title. Here's what this one says, details anonymized to protect all parties concerned.

Hi Alexiares, this is Jane Does's Books.

Thank you for your order!

These item(s) are ready for pick up:

• Doublethink: A Feminist Challenge...

On behalf of Jane Doe's, we greatly appreciate your business! Please contact us if you have any questions.

I have purchased books with way longer titles, this was a deliberate choice on the staff person's part. A portion of the staff is uber-woke at this store, but the owners and the staff more generally are not on board. There is a subtle shelving war happening in the relabelled women's section (the relabelling happened only within the last 18 months or so, somebody took advantage of the pandemic). Somebody keeps putting all this transextremist dreck up, and somebody else keeps merrily finding books on actual women and lesbians with those words a prominent part of the title and putting those right up. The lesbian and women books sell really well, and I think they got a river of complaints that forced them to remove the execrable book by the man who was shortlisted for a women's prize for writing sissification porn.

Such times!